Bible Verses About Blessing Your Pastor
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for blessing your pastor, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 5,203 votes, led by 1 Timothy 5:17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Blessing Your Pastor
1 Timothy 5:17462 votes
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Hebrews 13:17341 votes
Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Galatians 6:6312 votes
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
1 Thessalonians 5:12-13251 votes
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
1 Corinthians 9:11200 votes
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?
Numbers 6:24-26188 votes
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee:
1 Corinthians 9:14182 votes
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
Philippians 1:3-5117 votes
I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Romans 15:13114 votes
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
2 Timothy 2:15101 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Philippians 1:7-1199 votes
Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
Jeremiah 3:1597 votes
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Hebrews 13:779 votes
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
Ezekiel 44:3078 votes
And the first of all the firstfruits of all things, and every oblation of all, of every sort of your oblations, shall be the priest’s: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause the blessing to rest in thine house.
2 Kings 4:1077 votes
Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.
Philippians 4:1976 votes
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
2 Kings 4:8-1068 votes
And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.
1 Peter 2:2565 votes
For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
Jeremiah 9:23-2462 votes
Thus saith the Lord, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches:
1 Peter 3:1562 votes
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Ephesians 4:1159 votes
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
Acts 20:2852 votes
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
1 Peter 5:251 votes
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Jeremiah 29:1149 votes
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Galatians 6:949 votes
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
What does the Bible say about blessing your pastor?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:17 on the subject of blessing your pastor. Across 5,203 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:17, Galatians 6:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:12-13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.