Bible verses about "leadership" | Tyndale

⁴² But Iesus called the vnto him and sayde to them: ye knowe that they which seme to beare rule amonge the gentyls raygne as lordes over the. And they that be greate amoge them exercyse auctorite over them. ⁴³ So shall it not be amonge you but whosoever of you wilbe greate amoge you shalbe youre minister. ⁴⁴ And whosoever wilbe chefe shalbe servaunt vnto all. ⁴⁵ For eve the sonne of man came not to be ministred vnto: but to minister and to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many.

¹¹ I am ye good shepeheerd. The good shepeheerd geveth his lyfe for ye shepe.

¹² For as the body is one and hath many mebres and all the membres of one body though they be many yet are but one body: even so is Christ.

³ not as though ye were lordes over the parisshes: but that ye be a insample to the flocke.

² And what thynges thou hast hearde of me many bearynge witnes the same diliver to faythfull men which are apte to teache other

¹⁷ Obeye the that have the oversight of you and submit youre selves to them for they watch for youre soules even as they that must geve a comptes: that they maye do it with ioye and not with grefe. For that is an vnproffitable thynge for you.

¹³ I can do all thynges thorow the helpe of Christ which strengtheth me.

⁹ Let vs not be wery of well doynge. For when the tyme is come we shall repe with out werines.

²¹ Morouer seke out amonge all the people, men of actiuite which feare God and men that are true ad hate covetuousnes: and make them heedes ouer the people, captaynes ouer thousandes, ouer hundredes, ouer fyftie, and ouer ten.

¹² After he had wesshed their fete and receaved his clothes and was set doune agayne he sayde vnto them? wot ye what I have done to you? ¹³ Ye call me master and Lorde and ye saye well for so am I. ¹⁴ If I then youre Lorde and master have wesshed youre fete ye also ought to wesshe one anothers fete. ¹⁵ For I have geven you an ensample that ye shuld do as I have done to you.

²⁴ And ther was a stryfe amoge the which of them shuld be taken for the greatest. ²⁵ And he sayde vnto them: the kynges of the getyls raygne over them and they that beare rule over them are called gracious lordes. ²⁶ But ye shall not be so. But he that is greatest amonge you shalbe as the yongest: and he that is chefe shalbe as the minister. ²⁷ For whether is greater he that sitteth at meate: or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at meate? And I am amoge you as he that ministreth.

⁹ Let love be wt out dissimulacion. Hate that which is evyll and cleave vnto that which is good. ¹⁰ Be kynde one to another with brotherly love. In gevynge honoure goo one before another. ¹¹ Let not yt busynes which ye have in honde be tedious to you. Be fervet in ye sprete. Applye youre selves to ye tyme. ¹² Reioyce in hope. Be paciet in tribulacion. Continue in prayer. ¹³ Distribute vnto the necessite of the saynctes and diligently to harboure.

¹ This is a true sayinge. Yf a ma covet ye office of a bysshope he desyreth a good worke. ² Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse the husband of one wyfe sober discrete honestly aparelled harberous apt to teache ³ not dronke no fighter not geve to filthy lucre: but gentle abhorrynge fightynge abhorrynge coveteousnes ⁴ and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly havynge chyldren vnder obedience with all honeste. ⁵ For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God. ⁶ He maye not be a yonge skoler lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll ⁷ speaker. He must also be well reported of amonge them which are with out forth lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evyll speaker.

²⁵ But Iesus called them vnto him and sayde: Ye knowe yt the lordes of the gentyls have dominacio over them. And they that are great exercise power over the. ²⁶ It shall not be so amoge you. But whosoever wyll be greate amoge you let him be youre minister:

²⁸ eve as the sonne of man came not to be ministred vnto but to minister and to geve his lyfe for the redempcion of many.

³ that nothinge be done thorow stryfe or vayne glory but that in mekenes of mynde every man esteme other better then him selfe

¹² Let no man despyse thy youth: but be vnto them that beleve an insample in worde in conversacion in love in sprete in fayth and in purenes.