For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants devoted to governing.

a minister in the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that the Lord, not man, set up.

But for now I have considered it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you. For he is my brother, coworker and fellow soldier, and your messenger and minister to me in my need.

And he says of the angels, “He makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire,”

to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles. I serve the gospel of God like a priest, so that the Gentiles may become an acceptable offering, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.