20 Bible Verses About Pastors, and Why the New Testament Barely Uses the Word

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Sommario

  • The New Testament uses the noun “pastor,” the ordinary word for a shepherd, for church leaders only once, in a list of gifts (Ephesians 4:11).
  • Acts 20:28 and 1 Peter 5:2 stack elder, overseer and shepherd onto the same people in a single sentence.
  • Most of the qualifications in 1 Timothy 3:2-3 concern character and household; “able to teach” is the one that names a skill.
  • Paul moves from honour to wages without changing subject, quoting a rule about not muzzling the ox that treads the grain.
  • Hebrews 13:17 puts the joy or the groaning of a pastor’s work in the congregation’s hands, not the pastor’s.

The New Testament uses the word pastor, meaning shepherd, for church leaders only once, and it describes the same leaders more often as elders and overseers. In Acts 20:28 and 1 Peter 5:2, the same group is called elders, told to shepherd the flock, and described as overseers. The letters say more about a leader’s character and duties than about a title. The twenty verses below cover where the word comes from, what is asked of the person, what the…

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Le citazioni bibliche sono tratte dalla English Standard Version.

The Greek noun poimen, shepherd, is translated “pastor” only at Ephesians 4:11; elsewhere the offices are presbyteros (elder) and episkopos (overseer).

Luke calls the same men elders at Acts 20:17, eight verses before Paul calls them overseers.

The rule about the ox is quoted at 1 Timothy 5:18, from Deuteronomy 25:4.

Jeremiah’s charges against the shepherds who failed are at Jeremiah 23:1-4.

Paul’s account of being driven out of Thessalonica is at Acts 17:5-10.

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