13 Bible Verses about Pastors

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.

Therefore, having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy we faint not,

And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and given us the ministry of the reconciliation,

Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

if any one is sick among you, let him send for the elders of the church, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.

but we will attend continually to prayer, and the ministry of the word.

And he said to them, Go into all the world, preach the good news to all the creation;

[misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose consciences are cauterized,

not as having a lordship over God's inheritance but being examples to the flock;

IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires a good work. It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach, not a wine-drinker, not a quarrelsome man, but gentle, not contentious, not avaricious,