25 Bible Verses about Leaders

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest those who are sent to thee, how often have I desired to gather thy children together, as a bird gathers her young under her wings, and you refused.

And they found in him occasion for offense. But Jesus said to them: A prophet is not without honor, unless it be in his own country and in his own house.

When the chief priests and their attendants saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify him, crucify him. Pilate said to them: Do you take him and crucify him; for I find no fault in him.

In like manner also the chief priests, with the scribes and elders, derided him, and said:

But the chief priests instigated the multitude, that he should rather release Barabbas to them.

Wherefore, having this ministry, inasmuch as we have received mercy, we faint not;

of which I was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God which was given to me, in proportion to the energy of his power:

if you continue in the faith, founded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, have been made a minister.

who has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of letter, but. of spirit: for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

to which I have been appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles;

For this cause, indeed, even those who have died had the gospel preached to them, that though they might be judged according to the will of men in the flesh, yet they might live according to the will of God in the spirit.

preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ, with all boldness and without hinderance.

And they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following.

In those days came John the Immerser, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the eternal gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth, even to every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you; and these will stealthily introduce ruinous sects, and deny the Lord that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction:

If any one teaches other things, and does not assent to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teaching which is according to godliness,

through the hypocrisy of liars, who are seared in their conscience,

desiring to be teachers of law, though under standing neither what they say nor of what they boldly affirm.

For the time will come when they will not endure sound teaching, but according to their own desires they will pro cure for themselves an abundance of teachers to gratify their itching ears:

and sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the marriage feast; and they refused to come.

being vexed because they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

And Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached the Christ to them.

And Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached to him Jesus.

and immediately he preached Jesus in the synagogues, that he is the Sou of God.

The word which he sent to the sons of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ, (he is Lord of all,)

and because he was of the same trade, he made his home with them, and worked: for by trade they were tent-makers.

For you remember, brethren, our labor and toil; for, laboring night and day, that we might not be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

You yourselves know that these hands have ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me.

nor did we eat any one's bread for nothing: but worked with labor and toil, night and day, that we might not burden any one of you;

And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all that came to him,

And he said to them: Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

"What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light: and what you hear in the ear, preach on the house-tops.

And as you go, preach, saying: The kingdom of heaven is at hand.

preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and teaching.

Jesus said: Let the dead bury their own dead; but do you go and publish abroad the kingdom of God.

For the scripture says: You shall not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain; and, The laborer is worthy of his hire.

nor bag for your journey, nor two coats, nor sandals, nor staffs: for the laborer is worthy of his support.

So, also, the Lord has ordained that those who preach the gospel should live by the gospel.

Let him that is instructed in the word share with his instructor in all good things.

Yet you have done well in contributing to the relief of my affliction.

Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

He said to him a third time: Simon, son of Jonah, do you love me? Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, Do you love me? And he said to him: Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus said to him: Feed my sheep.

Now there were certain prophets and teachers in the church that was at Antioch; Barnabas, and Simeon, who is called Niger, and Lucius of Gyrene, and Manaen, who was brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

And God has placed some in the church, first, apostles; secondly, prophets; thirdly, teachers; then mighty deeds; then gifts of healing; helps, governments, kinds of tongues.

And he himself gave some to be apostles, and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

In those days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge:

teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: and lo; I am with you all the days, even to the end of the age.

A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,

And those who have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren: but rather let them serve them, because they who partake of the benefit of their service, are believers and beloved brethren. These things enforce in your teaching and exhortation.

These things command and teach.

in meekness instructing those who oppose themselves, if, possibly, God may give them repentance in order to the acknowledgment of the truth,

Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive: for they watch for your souls, as those who must give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for that would be fatal to you.

to the one, we are the odor of death ending in death; to the other, the odor of life ending in life: and who is sufficient for these things?

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

But into the second, the high priest alone went, once during the year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:

So, also, the Christ did not take upon himself the honor of becoming a high priest: but he gave him this honor, who said to him, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee:

And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphoeus sitting at the custom-house; and he said to him: Follow me. And he arose and followed him.

And Jesus said to them: Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And he immediately called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.

And when it was day, he called to him his disciples; and from them he chose twelve, whom he also named apostles:

and he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looking on him, said: You are Simon, the son of Jonah; you shall be called Cephas (which, when translated, is Rock).

And those who took Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the chief priest, where the scribes and elders had come together.

Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

And after he had come into the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said: By what authority do you these things? And who gave you this authority?

And forthwith in the morning, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes, and the whole Sanhedrin, having held a consultation, and having bound Jesus, led him away, and delivered him to Pilate.

as the chief priest and the whole body of elders will testify for me. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring those, also, who were there, bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.

Obey those who rule over you, and be submissive: for they watch for your souls, as those who must give an account; that they may do this with joy, and not with grief: for that would be fatal to you.

I charge you before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice, and that you do nothing by partiality.

I charge you, in the sight of God, who makes all things alive, and before Christ Jesus, who, before Pontius Pilate, confessed a good confession,

I charge you, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom,

And when they had come in, they went up into an upper room, in which dwelt Peter and James, and John and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphasus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

Now these are the names of the twelve apostles: the first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

And Simon he surnamed Peter;

When, therefore, you see that detestable thing that makes desolate, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him that reads understand;)

that the word might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying: I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things that have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

And they called them in, and commanded them to speak no more at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus. Bat Peter and John answering them, said: Whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you rather than God, judge you. For we can not but speak the things that we have seen and heard.

For John said to him: It is not lawful for you to have her.

These twelve Jesus sent forth after he had charged them, saying: Go not into the road that leads to the Gentiles, and enter not a city of the Samaritans.

But John forbade him, saying: I have need to be immersed by thee, and comest thou to me?

But he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd, to whom the sheep do not belong, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep, and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep, and scatters them.

And as we remained there many days, there came down, from Judea, a certain prophet, named Agabus;

Therefore, take heed to yourselves, and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, that you be shepherds to the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.

You stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and in ears, you do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so also do you.

For I say to you, Among those born of women, there is no prophet greater than John the Immerser. But the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

And Zachariah his father was filled with the Holy Spirit, and prophesied, saying:

and sent his servants to call those who had been invited to the marriage feast; and they refused to come.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you, that you may go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit may remain; that whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he may give you.

But the Lord said to him: Go; for he is a vessel chosen by me to bear my name before nations and kings, and the sons of Israel.

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world, that he may bring to shame the wise; and the weak things of the world has God chosen, that he may put to shame the strong; and the ignoble things of the world, and the things that are despised, has God chosen, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nought things that are;

that no flesh should glory in his presence.

Then Mary took a pound of ointment of pure nard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the perfume of the ointment.

Then Peter arose, and went with them; and when he had come, they brought him into the upper room; and all the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments that Dorcas made while she was with them.

and also certain women that had been cured of evil spirits and diseases; Mary, called Magdalene, out of whom had gone seven demons, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many others, who ministered to him from their means.