Jeremiah 3:15
Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart and they will feed you knowledge and insight.
Acts 20:28
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has appointed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he obtained through the blood of his own [Son].
Jeremiah 23:4
And I will raise up over them shepherds, and they will shepherd them, and they will no longer fear, and they will not be dismayed, and they will not be missing," {declares} Yahweh.
Ezekiel 34:23
And I will set up over them one shepherd, and he will feed them; [that is], my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be for them as a shepherd.
1 Corinthians 3:1-2
And I, brothers, was not able to speak to you as to spiritual [people], but as to fleshly [people], as to infants in Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-12
And he himself gave some [as] apostles and some [as] prophets and some [as] evangelists and some [as] pastors and teachers
John 10:1-5
"Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place--that one is a thief and a robber.
John 21:15-17
Now when they had eaten breakfast, 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 love you." He said to him, "Feed my lambs!"
1 Samuel 13:14
But now, your kingdom will not endure. Yahweh has sought for himself a man according to his [own] heart, and Yahweh has appointed him as leader over his people, because you have not kept what Yahweh commanded you."
Proverbs 10:21
Lips of righteousness feed many, but fools {die for lack of sense}.
Isaiah 30:20-21
And the Lord will give you [the] bread [of] distress and [the] water [of] oppression, but your teachers will not hide themselves any longer. And your eyes {shall see} your teachers.
Ezekiel 37:24
" '"And my servant David [will be] king over them, and one shepherd will be for all of them, and in my regulations they will go, and my statutes they will observe, and they will do them.
Micah 5:4-5
And he will stand and shepherd [his flock] in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God. And they will live, for now he will be great unto the ends of the earth.
Luke 12:42
And the Lord said, "Who then is the faithful wise manager whom the master will put in charge over his servants to give [them] [their] food allowance at the right time?
1 Corinthians 2:6
Now we do speak wisdom among the mature, but wisdom not of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are perishing,
1 Corinthians 2:12-13
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who [is] from God, in order that we may know the things freely given to us by God,
Hebrews 5:12-14
For indeed, [although you] ought to be teachers {by this time}, you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and {you have need of} milk, not solid food.
1 Peter 2:2
like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
1 Peter 5:1-4
Therefore [I, your] fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, [and] also a sharer of the glory that is going to be revealed, exhort the elders among you: