48 Bible Verses about Servant Leadership

But let the greatest among you be your servant.

Let it not be so among you: but if anyone has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant;

But let it not be so with you; but he who is greater, let him become like the younger; and he who is chief, like a servant.

But it is not so among you: but whoever has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant:

And seating himself, he made the twelve come to him; and he said to them, If any man has the desire to be first, he will be last of all and servant of all.

Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;

See, I have given him as a witness to the peoples, a ruler and a guide to the nations.

The man of wealth has rule over the poor, and he who gets into debt is a servant to his creditor.

Keep in mind those who were over you, and who gave you the word of God; seeing the outcome of their way of life, let your faith be like theirs.

And I will give you keepers, pleasing to my heart, who will give you your food with knowledge and wisdom.

And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.

A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ:

A disciple is not greater than his master, or a servant than his lord.

For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.

And now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in the place of David my father; and I am only a young boy, with no knowledge of how to go out or come in.

Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

If a ruler gives attention to false words, all his servants are evil-doers.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, an Apostle by the selection of God, given authority as a preacher of the good news,

And when news of Jesus came to his ears, he sent to him rulers of the Jews, requesting that he would come and make his servant well.

Jesus said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here.

Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.

For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,

But Jesus said to them, You see that the rulers of the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them.

And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan, you and all this people, into the land which I am giving to them, to the children of Israel.

And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?

You have made me free from the fightings of the people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.

Then Moses and Joshua his servant got up; and Moses went up into the mountain of God.

Give words of love from me to those who are rulers over you, and to all the saints. Those who are in Italy send you their love.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ:

My servant Moses is not so; he is true to me in all my house:

Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons of the church:

Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant from the time when he was a child, said, My lord Moses, let them be stopped.

But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.

The Bishop, then, is to be a man of good name, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, serious-minded, having respect for order, opening his house freely to guests, a ready teacher;

But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.

And now you have been pleased to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you; you, O Lord, have given your blessing, and a blessing will be on it for ever.

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

Then say these words to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping the sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people, over my people Israel:

But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage.

So death came to Moses, the servant of the Lord, there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said.

It is my desire to say a good word for Phoebe, who is a servant of the church in Cenchreae:

For the praise of men was dearer to them than the approval of God.

But after they are fifty years old, they are to give up their work and do no more;