25 Bible Verses about Leaders

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is treated with honor everywhere except in his native place and at his home."

When the high priests and their attendants saw him, they shouted, "Have him crucified! Have him crucified!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and have him crucified, for I can find nothing to charge him with."

And the high priests, too, made sport of him with the scribes and elders, and said,

But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to set Barabbas free for them instead.

So since by the mercy of God I am engaged in this service, I never lose heart.

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.

and he has qualified me to serve him in the interests of a new agreement, not in writing but of spirit. For what is written kills, but the Spirit gives life.

of which I have been appointed a herald, apostle and teacher.

This is why the good news was preached to the dead also, that though they are judged in their physical nature as men are, they may yet live, like God, in the Spirit.

preaching the Kingdom of God to them and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ openly and unhindered.

And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed their message by the signs that attended it.

In those days John the Baptist appeared, and preached in the desert of Judea.

Then I saw another angel flying in midair, with eternal good news to announce to the inhabitants of the earth, to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

There were false prophets too among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will introduce destructive sects and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Anyone who teaches different views and does not agree with the wholesome instruction which comes from our Lord Jesus Christ, and with religious teaching

through the pretensions of liars??en with seared consciences

They would like to be teachers of law although they do not understand the words they use or the matters they insist upon.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome instruction, but will overwhelm themselves with teachers to suit their whims and tickle their fancies,

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.

greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and declaring that in the case of Jesus there had been a resurrection from the dead.

Philip reached the city of Samaria, and proclaimed the Christ to them.

Then Philip began, and starting from this passage, he told him the good news about Jesus.

and began at once to declare in the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God.

He has sent his message to Israel's descendants, and made the good news of peace known to them through Jesus Christ. He is Lord of us all.

and as they practiced the same trade, he stayed with them, and they worked together, for they were tent-makers.

You remember, brothers, how we toiled and labored. We worked night and day, when we preached the good news to you, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

You know well enough that these hands of mine provided for my needs and my companions.

I did not eat anybody's bread without paying for it, but with toil and labor I worked night and day, in order not to be a burden to any of you.

So he stayed for two full years in rented lodgings of his own, and welcomed everybody who came to see him,

And he said to them, "Go to the whole world and proclaim the good news to all the creation.

What I tell you in the dark you must say in the light, and what you hear whispered in your ear, you must proclaim from the housetops.

And as you go about, preach and say, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!'

preach the message; be at it in season and out of season; convince, reprove, exhort people, with perfect patience and willingness to teach.

Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead; you must go and spread the news of the Kingdom of God!"

For the Scripture says, "You must not muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain," and the workman deserves his wages.

and do not take a bag for your journey, nor two shirts, nor shoes, nor a staff, for the workman deserves his food!

In just that way the Lord directed that those who preach the good news should get their living from it.

Those who are taught the message must share all their goods with their teacher.

But it was very kind of you to share my difficulties.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

Jesus said to him a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was hurt because the third time Jesus asked him if he loved him, and he answered, "Master, you know everything, you can see that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep!

There were at Antioch in the church there a number of prophets and teachers??arnabas, Symeon who was called Niger, Lucius the Cyrenian, Manaen, who had been brought up with Herod the governor, and Saul.

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as inspired preachers, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then come ability to cure the sick, helpfulness, administration, ecstatic speaking.

And he has given us some men as apostles, some as prophets, some as missionaries, some as pastors and teachers,

About that time some prophets from Jerusalem came down to Antioch,

And let two or three who are inspired to preach speak, while the rest weigh what is said;

and teach them to observe all the commands that I have given you. I will always be with you, to the very close of the age."

A superintendent must be a man above reproach, only once married, temperate, sensible, a man of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;

Those who have Christian masters must not think lightly of them because they are brothers; they must serve them all the more faithfully, because those who benefit by it are believers and hence dear to them. These are the things you must teach and preach.

This is what you must urge and teach.

correcting his opponents with gentleness; for God may possibly let them repent and acknowledge the truth,

Obey your leaders and give way to them, for they are keeping watch in defense of your souls, as men accountable for the trust. Make their work a joy and not a grief, for that would be the worse for you.

to the one, a deathly, deadly odor, to the other a vital, life-giving one. Who is qualified for this task? I am!

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

but only the high priest could enter the inner part, and he but once a year, and never without taking some victim's blood, to offer on his own behalf and for the sins committed through ignorance by the people.

So even Christ did not claim for himself the dignity of the high priesthood, but he was appointed to it by him who said to him, "You are my Son! I have today become your Father!"

And as he was passing along he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the tollhouse, and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him.

Jesus said to them, "Come, follow me, and I will make you fish for men."

He immediately called them. And they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went off after him.

When day came, he called his disciples to him, and chose twelve of them whom he named apostles:

The men who had seized Jesus took him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, at whose house the scribes and elders had gathered.

"Why do your disciples break the rules handed down by our ancestors? For they eat their bread without first washing their hands."

When he had entered the Temple, and was teaching, the high priests and the elders of the people came up to him, and said, "What authority have you for doing as you do, and who gave you this authority?"

As soon as it was daylight, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes, and they and the whole council bound Jesus and took him away and handed him over to Pilate.

as the high priest and the whole council will bear me witness. In fact, they gave me letters to the brothers in Damascus and I went there to bind those who were there and bring them back to Jerusalem to be punished.

Obey your leaders and give way to them, for they are keeping watch in defense of your souls, as men accountable for the trust. Make their work a joy and not a grief, for that would be the worse for you.

I charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels to observe these rules without any discrimination, and to be perfectly impartial.

Before God who maintains all life, and before Christ Jesus who in testifying before Pontius Pilate made his great profession, I charge you

I charge you in the sight of God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,

When they entered the city they went to the upstairs room where they were staying. There were Peter, John, James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alpheus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon, who was called Peter, and his brother Andrew, and James the son of Zebedee and his brother John,

Simon, whom he named Peter, his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

Peter, which was the name he gave to Simon,

"So when you see the dreadful desecration, of which the prophet Daniel spoke, set up in the Holy Place"??he reader must take note of this??16 "then those who are in Judea must fly to the hills;

to fulfil what was said by the prophet, "I will open my mouth in figures, I will utter things that have been hidden since the creation."

So they called them in and ordered them not to speak or teach at all about the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, "You must decide whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you instead of him, for we cannot help telling of what we have seen and heard."

for John said to him, "It is not right for you to be living with her."

Jesus sent these twelve out, after giving them these directions: "Do not go among the heathen, or to any Samaritan town,

But John dissuaded him, and said, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"

A hired man who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, when he sees a wolf coming, will leave the sheep and run away, and the wolf will carry them off and scatter the flock.

We spent a number of days there, and in the course of them a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Take care of yourselves and of the whole flock, of which the holy Spirit has made you guardians, and be shepherds of the church of God, which he got at the cost of his own life.

You stubborn people, with heathen hearts and ears, you are always opposing the holy Spirit, just as your forefathers did!

"I tell you, among men born of women there is none greater than John; and yet those who are of little importance in the Kingdom of God are greater than he.

And his father Zechariah was filled with the holy Spirit and he uttered a divine message, saying,

And he sent his slaves to summon those who had been invited to the banquet, and they would not come.

It was not you who chose me, it is I that have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit??ruit that shall be lasting, so that the Father may grant you whatever you ask him for as my followers.

The Lord said to him, "Go! This man is the means I have chosen for carrying my name among the heathen and their kings, and among the descendants of Israel.

But it was what the world calls foolish that God chose to put the wise to shame with, and it was what the world calls weak that God chose to shame its strength with, and it was what the world calls low and insignificant and unreal that God chose to nullify its realities,

so that in his presence no human being might have anything to boast of.

And Mary took a pound of choice perfume, very costly, and poured it on Jesus' feet, and then wiped his feet with her hair, and the whole house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Peter went with them at once. When he arrived, they took him up to the room and all the widows stood around him crying and showing him the shirts and coats that Dorcas had made when she was still with them.

and some women who had been cured of evil spirits and sickness??ary, who was called Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons had been driven, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's manager, and Susanna, and many others, who provided for them with their means.