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Want to know what the Bible says about Ministers? Here are 230 Bible verses about Ministers from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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2 Corinthians 4:1 NIV
Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.
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Titus 1:6 NIV
An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
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1 Timothy 2:12 NIV
I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.
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1 Peter 4:11 NIV
If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
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Isaiah 52:11 NIV
Depart, depart, go out from there!
    Touch no unclean thing!
Come out from it and be pure,
    you who carry the articles of the Lord’s house.
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1 Thessalonians 5:12 NIV
Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who work hard among you, who care for you in the Lord and who admonish you.
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1 Timothy 5:17-18 NIV
17 The elders who direct the affairs of the church well are worthy of double honor, especially those whose work is preaching and teaching. 18 For Scripture says, “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain,” and “The worker deserves his wages.”
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2 Chronicles 29:11 NIV
My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to minister before him and to burn incense.”
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1 Corinthians 4:1 NIV
This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.
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2 Timothy 2:17 NIV
Their teaching will spread like gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and Philetus,
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Romans 16:1 NIV
I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deacon of the church in Cenchreae.
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Philippians 3:17 NIV
Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.
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2 Timothy 3:14-15 NIV
14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
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Luke 6:39 NIV
He also told them this parable: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?
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1 Corinthians 9:27 NIV
No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
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Revelation 5:4 NIV
I wept and wept because no one was found who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside.
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Acts 1:25 NIV
to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.”
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2 Timothy 2:2 NIV
And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable people who will also be qualified to teach others.
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Colossians 4:17 NIV
Tell Archippus: “See to it that you complete the ministry you have received in the Lord.”
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Matthew 18:6 NIV
“If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
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