Luke 12:42

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

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 ...

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.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.

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;

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned...

And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

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.

And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.