49 Bible Verses about Servant Leadership

And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;

but ye are not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;

but not so shall it be among you; but whoever may will to become great among you, he shall be your minister,

and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, 'If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

or ministration -- 'In the ministration!' or he who is teaching -- 'In the teaching!'

Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and commander to peoples.

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

Be mindful of those leading you, who did speak to you the word of God, whose faith -- considering the issue of the behaviour -- be imitating,

And I have given to you shepherds According to Mine own heart, And they have fed you with knowledge and understanding.

nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ.

For a servant when he reigneth, And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,

unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

'A disciple is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his lord;

For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, And from the house of servants I have ransomed thee, And I send before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

And now, O Jehovah my God, Thou hast caused thy servant to reign instead of David my father; and I am a little child, I do not know to go out and to come in;

even as the Son of Man did not come to be ministered to, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.'

A ruler who is attending to lying words, All his ministers are wicked.

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the good news of God --

and having heard about Jesus, he sent unto him elders of the Jews, beseeching him, that having come he might thoroughly save his servant.

Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a youth, And thy princes do eat in the morning.

And enter not into judgment with Thy servant, For no one living is justified before Thee.

and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,

and Jesus having called them near, said, 'Ye have known that the rulers of the nations do exercise lordship over them, and those great do exercise authority over them,

And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

'Moses my servant is dead, and now, rise, pass over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.

And He saith, 'No, for I am Prince of Jehovah's host; now I have come;' and Joshua falleth on his face to the earth, and doth obeisance, and saith to Him, 'What is my Lord speaking unto His servant?'

Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.

'His lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

And Moses riseth -- Joshua his minister also -- and Moses goeth up unto the mount of God;

Salute all those leading you, and all the saints; salute you doth those from Italy:

Judas, of Jesus Christ a servant, and brother of James, to those sanctified in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ kept -- called,

not so My servant Moses; in all My house he is stedfast;

Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, And his heads, and all his people,

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministrants;

And Joshua son of Nun, minister of Moses, one of his young men, answereth and saith, 'My lord Moses, restrain them.'

And they have served Jehovah their God, And David their king whom I raise up to them.

it behoveth, therefore, the overseer to be blameless, of one wife a husband, vigilant, sober, decent, a friend of strangers, apt to teach,

'And, that servant having come forth, found one of his fellow-servants who was owing him an hundred denaries, and having laid hold, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that which thou owest.

and now, Thou hast been pleased to bless the house of Thy servant, to be to the age before Thee; for Thou, O Jehovah, hast blessed, and it is blessed to the age.'

and they are mocking at the messengers of God, and despising His words, and acting deceitfully with His prophets, till the going up of the fury of Jehovah against His people -- till there is no healing.

and now, thus dost thou say to My servant, to David: 'Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, I have taken thee from the comely place, from after the flock, to be leader over My people, over Israel;

and My servant Caleb, because there hath been another spirit with him, and he is fully after Me -- I have brought him in unto the land whither he hath entered, and his seed doth possess it.

And Moses, servant of the Lord, dieth there, in the land of Moab, according to the command of Jehovah;

And I commend you to Phebe our sister -- being a ministrant of the assembly that is in Cenchrea --

for they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

and from a son of fifty years he doth return from the host of the service, and doth not serve any more,