Bible Verses About Paying the Pastor
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for paying the pastor, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,893 votes, led by 1 Timothy 5:17-18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Paying the Pastor
1 Timothy 5:17-18306 votes
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Galatians 6:6278 votes
Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things.
1 Corinthians 9:14251 votes
Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel.
1 Corinthians 9:9-14199 votes
For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?
Acts 20:33-35192 votes
I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.
Luke 10:7166 votes
And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-10148 votes
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
1 Thessalonians 5:12-13134 votes
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Deuteronomy 25:4133 votes
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Romans 4:4123 votes
Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Philippians 4:16-19113 votes
For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.
1 Corinthians 9:18-19108 votes
What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.
2 Corinthians 11:7-999 votes
Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?
Matthew 10:8-1095 votes
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.
Numbers 18:8-3291 votes
And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.
1 Timothy 5:1791 votes
Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
Numbers 18:2484 votes
But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the Lord, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.
Acts 4:32-3584 votes
And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Mark 10:43-4583 votes
But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Acts 20:2867 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 5:1-463 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:
Hebrews 13:1759 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.
Philippians 4:1858 votes
But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.
1 Thessalonians 5:1257 votes
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
Ephesians 4:1154 votes
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
What does the Bible say about paying the pastor?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 5:17-18 on the subject of paying the pastor. Across 4,893 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Galatians 6:6, 1 Corinthians 9:14, 1 Corinthians 9:9-14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.