31 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities

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

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 respect and honor them in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Moreover you 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.

Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.

The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.

if anyone is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, who are not accused of loose or unruly behavior.

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. 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 you did follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, steadfastness,

one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

It happened, 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. He had judged Israel forty years.

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Woe to you, land, when your king is a child, and your princes eat in the morning!

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork.

He makes my feet like deer's feet, and sets me on my high places.

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

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

Yahweh said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons."

It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, "Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him."

Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

Behold, the days come, says Yahweh, 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.

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 whoever is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd who will stand before me?

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

Save me, God, by your name. Vindicate me in your might.

Jesus therefore answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.