49 Bible Verses about Servant Leadership

But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant.

But it shall not be so among you: but whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

But so it shall not be among you: but whoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:

And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith to them, If any man desireth to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.

Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching:

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Remember them who have the rule over you, who have spoken to you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their manner of life.

And I will give you pastors according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even Christ.

For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with food.

For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

The disciple is not above his teacher, nor the servant above his lord.

For I brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee from the house of servants; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.

Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

If a ruler hearkeneth to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated to the gospel of God,

And when he heard of Jesus, he sent to him the elders of the Jews, beseeching him that he would come and heal his servant.

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

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

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient,

But Jesus called them to him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them.

And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, to the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

And he said, No; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshiped, and said to him, What saith my lord to his servant?

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

His lord said to him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up upon the mount of God.

Salute all them that have the rule over you, and all the saints. They of Italy salute you.

Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:

My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all my house.

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

Paul and Timothy, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons:

And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord, Moses, forbid them.

But they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him a hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me what thou owest.

Now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may be before thee for ever: for thou blessest, O LORD, and it shall be blessed for ever.

But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.

Now therefore so shalt thou say to my servant David, thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheep-cote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land into which he went; and his seed shall possess it.

So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

I commend to you Phebe our sister, who is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:

For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

And from the age of fifty years they shall cease waiting upon the service of it, and shall serve no more: