Bible verses about "leadership" | Riverside

⁴² Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that those who are thought to rule the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. ⁴³ It is not so among you. But whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant, ⁴⁴ and whoever of you wishes to be first shall be the slave of all. ⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many."

¹¹ I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

¹² For as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ.

³ not lording it over your charges, but becoming examples to the flock.

² and the things you heard from me, which came through many witnesses, you must commit to trustworthy men who will be able to teach others also.

¹⁷ Obey your leaders and yield to their authority; for they watch over your souls as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with sighing. That would be unprofitable for you.

¹³ I can do all things through him who gives me strength.

⁹ Let us not grow discouraged in doing what is noble, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow faint.

¹² When he had washed their feet and had taken his upper garments and lain down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I have done to you? ¹³ You call me Teacher and Master and you say rightly, for so I am. ¹⁴ If then I, the Master and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵ For I have given you an example that you may do as I have done to you.

²⁴ There was also a dispute among them as to which of them should be regarded as superior. ²⁵ He said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those of them who exercise authority are called benefactors. ²⁶ But you are not to be so. The greatest among you is to be like the youngest and the leader like him who serves. ²⁷ For which is superior, he who reclines at table or he who serves? Is not he who reclines? But I am in the midst of you as the one who serves.

⁹ Let your love be without pretense. Abhor what is evil; cling to the good. ¹⁰ Have brotherly love toward one another like family affection, in honor preferring one another, ¹¹ never flagging in zeal, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, ¹² rejoicing in hope, patient in trial, constant in prayer, ¹³ contributing to the needs of the holy, devoted to hospitality.

¹ THE saying is trustworthy: "If any one aspires to the office of a bishop, he desires a noble work." ² A bishop, then, should be above reproach, true to one woman, temperate, self-controlled, dignified, hospitable, with a gift for teaching, ³ not given to wine or to blows, but fair-minded, averse to strife, not a lover of money, ⁴ presiding well over his own house, with children obedient and respectful. ⁵ But if any one does not know how to preside over his own house, how will he take care of the church of God? ⁶ He must not be a new convert, for fear he may be blinded by pride and fall into the condemnation of the Devil. ⁷ He must have a good reputation with outsiders so as not to fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.

²⁵ But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them and their great ones wield power over them. ²⁶ It is not so among you. But whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant, ²⁷ and whoever wants to be first among you will be your slave; ²⁸ just as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many."

³ doing nothing in a partisan or vainglorious way, but each modestly regarding the others as of more account than himself.

¹² Let no one look down on you because you are young, but be an example to believers in speech, in the life you lead, in love, in faith, in purity.