14 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities

and to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Therefore, brethren, pick out from among yourselves seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, and we will appoint them to undertake this duty.

It is needful also that he bear a good character with people outside the Church, lest he fall into reproach or a snare of the Devil.

A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

Faithful is the saying, "If any one is eager to have the oversight of a Church, he desires a noble work."

wherever there is a man of blameless life, true to his one wife, having children who are themselves believers and are free from every reproach of profligacy or of stubborn self-will.

But you have intimately known my teaching, life, aims, faith, patience, love, resignation,

but ruling his own household wisely and well, with children kept under control with true dignity.

The teacher must do the same in his teaching; and he who exhorts others, in his exhortation. He who gives should be liberal; he who is in authority should be energetic and alert; and he who succours the afflicted should do it cheerfully.

Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke out boldly about Him.

So two names were proposed, Joseph called Bar-sabbas--and surnamed Justus--and Matthias.

Paul, an Apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from among the dead--

Jesus answered their question by saying, "My teaching does not belong to me, but comes from Him who sent me.

Then, midway between the throne and the four living creatures, I saw a Lamb standing among the Elders. He looked as if He had been offered in sacrifice, and He had seven horns and seven eyes. The last-named are the seven Spirits of God, and have been sent far and wide into all the earth.