13 Bible Verses about Pastors

who also made us sufficient as servants of a New Covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we do not faint.

But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he purchased with his own blood.

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, as God wants; not for dishonest gain, but willingly;

For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain;

Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word."

He said to them, "Go into all the world, and proclaim the Good News to the whole creation.

through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but making yourselves examples to the flock.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work. The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching; not a drunkard, not violent, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money;