Bible verses about "pastor" | Noyes

⁸ But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your teacher; and ye are all brethren.

¹⁵ Study to present thyself approved unto God, a workman not ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders, and submit yourselves to them; for they keep watch in behalf of your souls, as those who must give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief; for this is not for your advantage.

¹¹ And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

²⁸ Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit made you overseers, to feed the church of the Lord, which he purchased with his own blood.

¹ True is the saying: If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. ² A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, sober, discreet, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching; ³ not given to wine, not a striker, but forbearing, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money; ⁴ presiding well over his own house, having his children in subjection with all propriety; ⁵ for if a man knoweth not how to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God ⁶ not a new convert, lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devil; ⁷ moreover he must also have a good report from them that are without, lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.