21 Bible Verses about Being A Leader

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others more important than you.

As you would like men to do to you, do also to them.

But it will not be so among you. He who will be great among you must be your servant.

He must increase and I must decrease.

The people fall where there is no counsel. Yes, the people fall but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness for the throne is established by righteousness.

With unselfish devotion David became their shepherd. With skill he guided them.

You are blessed, O land, when your king is the son of nobles and your princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness!

When the righteous increase the people rejoice. When the wicked rule the people mourn.

You should choose capable men from all the people. Find men who respect God. These must be men you can trust who hate corruption. Put them in charge of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.

Be diligent to be presented approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth.

But you should not be this way. He who is the greater among you let him become as the younger. He that is chief among you is he who serves.

The king who faithfully judges the poor will have his throne established forever.

The king establishes the land by justice. He who receives gifts overthrows it.

Guard your heart with all diligence for out of it come the source of life.

Let us not grow tired of doing good things for in due season we shall harvest, if we do not faint.

Obey those who lead you. Submit to them: for they watch in behalf of your lives and must account for this. Obey them that their work may be a joy and not a burden; that would be without gain for you.

if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the congregation of God?

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many and are one body, so also is Christ. For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or people of the nations, whether we are bond or free; we were all made to drink of one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many.read more.
If the foot should say: Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the ear should say: Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where is the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where is the smelling? Has God set the members of the body, every one of them, just as it pleased him? And if they were all one member, where would the body be? But now they are many members, yet they are one body. And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are necessary. And those members of the body that we think to be less honorable, we offer these more honors. Our less acceptable parts have more abundant acceptability. For our acceptable parts have no need. But God has assembled the body together, having given more abundant honor to the part that was lacking. There should be no division in the body. So the members should have the same care for each other. When one member suffers all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. God has appointed some in the congregation: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, abilities to direct, different tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? Do all have the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? Zealously seek (earnestly desire) the best gifts. Yet I show you a more excellent way.

I say through the grace given to me that every man among you should not think more highly of himself than he ought to think. But to think soberly, just as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith. For we have many members in one body and all members do not have the same function. These many members are one body in Christ, and every one, individually, is a member one of the other.read more.
We have gifts that differ according to the grace that is given to us. Whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; or ministry, let us wait on our ministering; or he who teaches on teaching; or he who exhorts; on exhortation; he who gives let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Stay away from people like this!