31 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities

Take for you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens,

and to esteem them with exceptional love because of their work. Live peaceably among yourselves.

Therefore, brothers, seek ye out seven men from you being well reported, full of Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this need.

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

And he must also have good testimony from those outside, lest he may fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

Faithful is the saying, If any man aspires to supervision, he desires a good work.

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having believing children, not with an accusation of debauchery or insubordinate.

And I have been with thee wherever thou went, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee. And I will make thee a great name, like the name of the great ones that are on the earth.

LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation,

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him, and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

But thou have closely followed my doctrine, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, perseverance,

a man who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all propriety

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that [Eli] fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate. And his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty year

or he who exhorts, in the exhortation; he who gives, in simplicity; he who leads, in diligence; he who does mercy, in cheerfulness.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy rulers feast in the morning!

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament shows his handiwork.

He makes my feet like hinds' [feet], and sets me upon my high places.

and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty-two captains.

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

And LORD said to Samuel, How long will thou mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil, and go. I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for me a king among

And it came to pass, when they came, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely LORD's anointed is before him.

Yet no man spoke openly about him because of fear of the Jews.

Behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation. For I will suddenly make them run away from it. And he who is chosen, him I will appoint over it. For who is like me, and who will app

Paul, an apostle (not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead),

Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy might.

Jesus therefore answered them and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his who sent me.

And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four beings, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, like it had been killed, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God being sent forth into all