21 Bible Verses about Being A Leader

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

And as ye wish that men would do to you, and do you to them likewise.

But it shall not be so among you; but whoever should wish to be great among you, let him be your attendant;

He must increase, and I must be diminished.

In no guidance the people will fall: and salvation in a multitude of counseling.

An abomination of kings to do injustice: for in justice shall the throne be prepared.

And he will feed them according to the integrity of his heart, and he will guide them in the understandings of his hands.

Happy thou, O land: thy king the son of nobles, and thy chiefs shall eat in time, in strength and not in drinking.

In the increasing of the just the people will rejoice: and in the ruling of the unjust one the people will groan.

And thou shalt look out from all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, men hating gain; and set thou over them chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of ten.

Be earnest to present thyself acceptable to God, a worker without shame, dividing rightly the word of truth.

And ye not so: but let the greater with you be as the younger; and he leading, as he serving.

The king judging the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for a testimony.

A king in judgment shall establish the land: and a man of presents shall overthrow it

Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.

And doing good let us not despond: for in proper time we shall reap, not being enervated.

Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.

(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, is one body: so also is Christ. For also in one Spirit were we all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or free; and we have all been given to drink into one Spirit. For also the body is not one member, but many.read more.
If the foot say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; by this is it not of the body And if the ear say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; by this is it not of the body If the whole body an eye, where the hearing If the whole hearing, where the smelling? And now has God set the members each one of them in the body, as he would. And if all were one member, where the body And now truly many members, and one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. But much rather the members of the body, seeming to be weak, are necessary: And what we think to be less honourable of the body, upon these we put more abundant honour; and our unseemly parts have more abundant decorum. And our becoming parts have no need: but God blended the body together, to the wanting having given more abundant honour: That no division be in the body; but the members should care the same for one another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer together; or one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together. And ye are the body of Christ, and members by parts. And whom truly God set in the church, first the sent, second the prophets, third teachers, then powers, then graces of healings, helps, directions, kinds of tongues. Not all sent: not all prophets: not all teachers: not all powers: All have not the favors of healing: not all speaking with tongues: not all interpret accurately. And be emulous of the better favors: and yet I shew you a way according to eminence.

For I say, by the race given me, to every one being with you, not to entertain a high opinion of one's self above what is fitting to think: but to think to be discreet, as God has divided the measure of faith to each. For as in one body we have many members, and all members have not the same action: So we, the many, are one body in Christ, and the members for one another.read more.
And having gifts different according to the grace given us, whether prophecy, according to the due proportion of faith; Whether service, in service: whether he teaching, in instruction; Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.

Having a form of devotion, and having denied its power: and these renounce.