27 Bible Verses about Shepherds, As Church Leader

and when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive an unfading crown of glory.

And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

And he appointed twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them out to preach,

And having appointed them elders in every church, and having prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues.

When therefore they had breakfasted, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these? He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I am a friend to you. He said to him, Feed my lambs.

And going out he saw a great multitude, and had compassion on them, for they were as sheep not having a shepherd; and he taught them much.

He said to him a third time; Simon, son of John, are you a friend to me? Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, Are you a friend to me? and he said to him, Lord you know all things; you know that I am a friend to you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep.

I have fed you milk, not solid food; for you were not yet able; but you are not able even now;

For you who ought on account of the time to be teachers, have need that one should teach you again what are the first rudiments of the oracles of God, and have need of milk and not solid food. For every one that partakes of milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe; but solid food is for the perfect, having their perceptive faculties exercised by practice to distinguish both good and evil.

Again he said to him a second time; Simon, son of John, do you love me? He said to him, Yes, Lord, you know that I am a friend to you. He said to him, Feed my sheep.

naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.

Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

PAUL and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons.

IT is a true saying, If any one desires an episcopate he desires a good work. It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

but being at Rome he sought most diligently, and found me.

For a bishop must be blameless as a steward of God, not self-indulgent, not soon angry, not given to wine, not contentious, not devoted to base gain,

Pure religion and undefiled with the God and Father is this, to visit the orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

feed the flock of God which is among you, not by constraint but willingly, not for base gain but of a ready mind,

For I know that after my departure grievous wolves will come among you, not sparing the flock,

But beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but within they are rapacious wolves.

I tell you most truly, he that enters not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs in at some other place, he is a thief and robber;

not as having a lordship over God's inheritance but being examples to the flock;

Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.

as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I give my life for the sheep.

AND at that time Herod the king put forth his hands to injure some of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And seeing that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to apprehend Peter also,??nd it was during the days of unleavened bread,??4 and having seized he put him in prison, committing him to four companies of four soldiers each to guard him, wishing after the passover to bring him before the people.

But Paul answered, What do you do, to weep and break my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord Jesus.