Bible verses about "overseer" | WPNT

¹ Paul and Timothy, slaves of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, together with the overseers and deacons:

² Now then, it is obligatory for the overseer to be above reproach, a one woman man, temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, good at teaching,

²⁵ Yes, you were like straying sheep, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of our souls.

⁶ —if a man is blameless, a one-woman man, having children who believe and who are not open to the charge of being wild or disobedient. ⁷ Because as an administrator under God the overseer must be blameless; not self-willed, not hotheaded, not given to wine, not a bully, not avaricious;

¹ The elders who are among you I exhort, I, the fellow elder and witness of Christ’s sufferings; also the partaker of the glory that is to be revealed: ² Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers willingly, not under compulsion; not for dishonest gain but freely; ³ neither as lording it over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock. ⁴ And when the Chief Shepherd is revealed you will receive the unfading crown of glory.

²⁸ So take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has placed you as overseers, to shepherd the congregation of the Lord and God which He purchased with His own blood.