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Philemon 1:2
and Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and the church in your house:
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2 Timothy 2 2
and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.
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Acts 20:28
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.
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1 Corinthians 4 1-1 Corinthians 4 2
This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.
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2 Chronicles 29 11
My sons, do not now be negligent, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in his presence, to minister to him and to be his ministers and make offerings to him.”
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2 Timothy 4 1-2 Timothy 4 5
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
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2 Timothy 1 6
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
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Leviticus 10:3
Then Moses said to Aaron,“ This is what the Lord has said:‘ Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” And Aaron held his peace.
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1 Timothy 6 20
O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called“ knowledge,”
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1 Timothy 4 14
Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.
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Acts 1:17
For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.”
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Ezekiel 44:23-24
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.
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Numbers 18:5
And you shall keep guard over the sanctuary and over the altar, that there may never again be wrath on the people of Israel.
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1 Timothy 6 11-1 Timothy 6 14
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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1 Timothy 4 16
Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
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1 Timothy 4 6
If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
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Ephesians 4:11
And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
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Acts 14:23
And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.