Bible verses about "pastors" | Coverdale

¹ Take hede to youre almes, that ye geue it not in the syght of men, to the intent that ye wolde be sene of them: or els, ye get no rewarde of youre father which is in heauen. ² When soeuer therfore thou geuest thine almes, thou shalt not make a trompet to be blowen before the, as the ypocrites do in the synagoges and in the stretes, for to be praysed of me. Verely I saye vnto you: they haue their rewarde. ³ But whe thou doest almes, let not thy lefte hande knowe, what thy righte hande doth; ⁴ that thine almes maye be secrete: and thy father which seith in secrete, shall rewarde the openly. ⁵ And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as ye ypocrytes are. For they loue to stode and praye in the synagoges, and in the corners of the stretes, to be sene of men. Verely I saie vnto you: they haue their rewarde. ⁶ But when thou prayest, entre in to thy chamber, and shut thy dore to the, & praye to thy father which is in secrete: and thy father which seith in secrete, shall rewarde the openly. ⁷ And when ye praye, bable not moch, as ye Hethen do: for they thinke that they shalbe herde, for their moch bablynges sake. ⁸ Be not ye lyke them therfore. For youre father knoweth where of ye haue nede, before ye axe of him. ⁹ After thys maner therfore shall ye praye:O oure father which art in heauen, halowed be thy name. ¹⁰ Thy kyngdome come. Thy wyll be fulfilled vpon earth as it is in heauen. ¹¹ Geue vs this daye oure dayly bred. ¹² And forgeue vs oure dettes, as we also forgeue oure detters. ¹³ And lede vs not in to teptacion: but delyuer vs from euell. For thyne is the kyngdome, and the power, and the glorye for euer. Amen. ¹⁴ For yf ye forgeue other men their treaspases, youre heauenly father shall also forgeue you. ¹⁵ But and ye wyll not forgeue me their trespases, nomore shall youre father forgeue you youre trespases. ¹⁶ Moreouer when ye fast, be not sad as ye ypocrytes are. For they disfigure their faces, that they myght be sene of men to fast. Verely I saye vnto you: they haue their rewarde. ¹⁷ But thou, whe thou fastest, annoynte thyne heed, and wash thy face, ¹⁸ that it appeare not vnto men, that thou fastest: but vnto thy father which is in secrete: and thy father which seyth in secrete, shal rewarde the openly. ¹⁹ Se that ye gather you not treasure vpon the earth, where rust and mothes corrupte, and where theues breake through and steale. ²⁰ But gather you treasure together in heauen, where nether rust nor mothes corrupte, and where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale. ²¹ For where youre treasure is, there is youre herte also. ²² The eye is the light of the body. Yf thyne eye then be syngle, all thy body shalbe ful of light: ²³ But and yf thyne eye be wycked, all thy body shalbe full of darckenes: Wherfore yf the light that is in the, be darckenes, how greate then shall that darckenes be? ²⁴ No ma can serue two masters. For ether he shall hate the one and loue the other: or els he shall leane to the one, and despise the other: Ye can not serue God and mammon. ²⁵ Therfore I saye vnto you: be not ye carefull for your lyfe, what ye shall eate, or what ye shall drinke: nor yet for youre body, what ye shal put on. Ys not the lyfe more worth the meate, and the body more of value then raymet? ²⁶ Beholde the foules of ye ayer: for they sowe not, nether reepe, nor yet cary in to the barnes: and yet youre heauely father fedeth the. Are ye not moch better the they? ²⁷ Which of you (though he toke thought therfore) coulde put one cubit vnto his stature? ²⁸ why care ye then for rayment? Considre the lylies of the felde, how they growe. They laboure not, nether spynne. ²⁹ And yet for all that I saye vnto you, that euen Salomon in all his royalte was not arayed lyke vnto one of these. ³⁰ Wherfore yf God so cloth the grasse, which is to daye in the felde, and to morowe shalbe cast into the fornace: shal he not moch more do the same vnto you, o ye of lytle fayth? ³¹ Therfore take no thought, sayinge: what shall we eate, or what shall we drinke? or where with shall we be clothed? ³² After all soch thynges do the heithen seke. For youre heauenly father knoweth, that ye haue nede of all these thynges. ³³ Seke ye fyrst the kyngdome of heauen and the righteousnes therof, so shal all these thynges be ministred vnto you. ³⁴ Care not then for the morow, for the morow shall care for it self: Euery daye hath ynough of his owne trauayll.

⁸ But yf there be eny man that prouydeth not for his awne, and specially for them of his houssholde, the same hath denyed the faith, and is worse then an infydele.

¹² Now therfore as the electe of God, holy and beloued, put on tender mercye, kyndnes, humblenes of mynde, mekenesse, longe sufferynge,

¹⁵ but sanctifye the LORDE God in youre hertes. Be ready allwayes to geue an answere to euery ma, that axeth you a reason of the hope that is in you, and that with mekenes & feare,

¹¹ And ye same hath set some to be Apostles, some to be prophetes, some to be Euangelistes, some to be shepherdes & teachers,

¹ My brethre, be not euery man a master, remebrynge how that we shall receaue the more damnacion:

²² And se that ye be doers of ye worde & not heares only, deceauinge youre awne selues.

²³ Se yt thou knowe the nombre of thy catell thy self, and loke well to thy flockes.

¹ The Elders which are amonge you I exhorte, which am also an Elder, and a witnes off the affliccions in Christ, and partaker of the glory that shalbe opened. ² Fede Christes flocke which is amonge you, and take the ouersighte of the, not as though ye were copelled therto, but wyllingly: not for the desyre of filthye lucre, but of a good mynde: ³ not as though ye were lordes ouer the parishes, but that ye be an ensample to the flocke: ⁴ & whan the chefe shepherde shal appeare, ye shal receaue the vncorruptible crowne of glory. ⁵ Likewyse ye yoger submytte youre selues vnto the elder. Submytte youre selues euery man one to another, and knyt yor selues together in lowlynes of mynde. For God resisteth the proude, but geueth grace to the humble.

¹⁷ Obey them that haue the ouersighte off you, and submytte youre selues vnto them: for they watch for youre soules, euen as they that must geue accoptes therfore, that they maye do it with ioye, and not with grefe: for that is an vnprofitable thinge for you.

⁵ For this cause left I the in Creta, that thou shuldest perfourme that which was lackynge, and shuldest ordeyne Elders in euery cite, as I appoynted ye. ⁶ Yf eny be blamelesse, the hussbande of one wife, hauynge faithfull children, which are not slaundred or ryote, nether are dishobedient. ⁷ For a Bisshoppe must be blamelesse, as the stewarde of God: not wylfull, not angrye, not geuen vnto moch wyne, no fyghter, not gredye of filthye lucre: ⁸ but harbarous, one that loueth goodnes, sober mynded, righteous, holy, temperate, ⁹ and soch one as cleueth vnto the true worde of doctryne: that he maye be able to exhorte with wholsome lernynge, & to improue them that saye agaynst it.

¹⁵ and will geue you hyrdme after myne owne mynde, which shal fede you with lernynge and wy?dome.