Bible Verses About Pastors
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for pastors, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 8,843 votes, led by Jeremiah 3:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Pastors
Jeremiah 3:15470 votes
And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Hebrews 13:17304 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.
Titus 1:5-9285 votes
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Ephesians 4:11223 votes
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
1 Peter 5:1-5223 votes
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
James 3:1222 votes
My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
Proverbs 27:23193 votes
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
Acts 20:28161 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 3:15154 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:
James 1:22143 votes
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Titus 2:3-5139 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
1 Corinthians 9:14131 votes
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
2 Timothy 4:2128 votes
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
1 Timothy 5:17126 votes
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
1 Timothy 5:8118 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
Colossians 3:12116 votes
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
1 Thessalonians 5:12-13116 votes
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Galatians 3:28115 votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 13:7110 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.
Matthew 6:1-34108 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Philippians 2:4108 votes
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
2 Corinthians 5:18-20100 votes
And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
Micah 6:895 votes
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
Psalms 37:2394 votes
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.
Titus 1:791 votes
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
What does the Bible say about pastors?
Readers most often cite Jeremiah 3:15 on the subject of pastors. Across 8,843 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Hebrews 13:17, Titus 1:5-9, Ephesians 4:11. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.