Bible Verses About Leadership

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

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.

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.

And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?

Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.

But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:

And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors.

But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.