25 Bible Verses about Leaders

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, murdering the prophets, and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!

This kept them from believing in him. Wherefore Jesus said, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and among his own family."

So when the chief priests and the police saw him, they shouted. "Crucify him! Crucify him!" "Take him yourselves and crucify him," said Pilate, "for I find no crime in him."

In like manner the chief priests, too, with the Scribes and elders, kept taunting him.

But the chief priests incited the crowds to have Barabbas released to them, instead.

So then, as I have this ministry because of God's mercy to me, I do not lose heart.

It is of this gospel I became a minister according to the gift of the power of the grace of God, bestowed on me by the energy of his power.

And this he will do if, indeed, you continue in the faith, firmly founded and stedfast, and never moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, and which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, that gospel of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

It is he who has also made me sufficient as a minister of a new covenant; not of a letter but of a spirit; for the letter kills, but the spirit makes alive.

Of the gospel I was appointed a herald, apostle, and teacher; and that is the reason I am now undergoing these sufferings.

The gospel was preached for this cause to those who were dead also, that they might be judged according to men in flesh, but live according to God in spirit.

He continued to preach the kingdom of God, and to teach about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, quite unmolested.

But they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the message by the miracles which followed.

In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the desert of Judea;

Then I saw another angel who was flying in mid-heaven. He had an eternal evangel, to evangelize all the dwellers on the earth, of every nation and tribe and tongue and people.

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

If any one teaches heterodoxy, and refuses to consent to the wholesome words of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to the teachings of religion,

speaking lies in hypocrisy. These are men whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron,

Although they desire to be teachers of the law, they understand neither the words they use nor the subjects they talk about.

For a time will come when they will not listen to wholesome teaching, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will heap up for themselves teachers upon teachers to satisfy their own fancies.

"He sent out his slaves to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they did not want to come.

incensed at their teaching the people, and proclaiming, in the case of Jesus, the resurrection from the dead.

Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and began to preach Christ there.

Then Philip opened his lips, and beginning from that same scripture, he preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

And he began at once to proclaim in the synagogues Jesus as the Son of God.

"You cannot but know the message which he sent to the descendants of Israel, when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ who is Lord of all;

Paul came to them, and because he was of the same trade with them, he lodged with them, and worked with them??or by trade they were tentmakers.

You recall, brothers, my labor and toil; how, while working at my trade day and night, so as not to become a burden to any of you, I proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

"You yourselves know how these hands of mine provided for my needs, and those of my companions.

I did not eat my food as a gift from any man, but in toil and travail, night and day, I worked, so that I might not be a burden to any of you.

After this Paul lived for two whole years in his own rented house, and used to receive all who came to see him.

And he said to them. "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.

"What I am telling you is in the darkness, do you speak in the light; and what is whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.

"As you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.'

"Leave the dead to bury their own dead," said Jesus to him, "go you and announce, far and wide the kingdom of God."

For the Scripture says, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading out the grain, and The worker is worth his wages.

"not even a bag for the journey, or a change of clothes, or sandals, or even a stick; for the worker is worth his rations.

Even so the Lord ordained that those who proclaim the gospel should get their living by the gospel.

He, however, who is being taught in the message, should always share with his instructor in all the good things which he possesses.

Notwithstanding, you have acted nobly in making yourselves comrades in my trouble.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

The third time Jesus asked him, "Am I really dear to you?" Peter was grieved because the third time he asked, "Am I really dear to you?" and he answered, "Master, you know all things, you know that you are dear to me."

Now there were in the church in Antioch prophets and teachers; Barnabas and Symeon, surnamed "the Black," Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen, the foster-brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues."

It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

At that time some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch.

Let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others exercise their judgment.

teaching them to observe every command which I have given you. and lo! I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;

Those whose masters are Christian believers must not treat them with disrespect, because they are brothers; nay, rather slave for them the better because those who get the benefit of their services are believing and beloved. Continue to teach and preach this.

Keep preaching and teaching these things.

He must be gentle when instructing opponents; for possibly God may give them a change of mind for the recognition of the truth,

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.

to these latter an odor of death to death, to the former, of life to life. For such service as this, who is sufficient?

Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.

but into the inner tent the high priest only goes alone, once a year, and that not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the ignorances of the people.

So even the Christ was not raised to the high glory of the priesthood by himself, but on the contrary by Him who said to him. Thou art my Son; this day have I become thy Father;

As he was passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alphaeus, sitting in the tax-office; and he said to him, "Follow me." So he rose and followed him.

so Jesus said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men."

Straightway he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants and went after him.

And when day dawned he called his disciples, and from among them he selected twelve, whom also he called Apostles missionaries.

Next day Jesus decided to go into Galilee; and he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Then all his disciples forsook him and fled; but those who had apprehended Jesus led him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had assembled.

"Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

When he had entered the Temple courts, and was teaching, the high priests and elders of the people came to him and asked him, "By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?"

As soon as it was down, after the high priests had conferred with the elders and the whole Sanhedrin, they bound Jesus, and took him away, and handed him over to Pilate.

"To this the high priest and all the council of elders are witnesses. It was from them that I received letters to the brothers in Damascus, and I was already on my way to bring those also who were there back to Jerusalem, in bonds, for punishment.

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.

I charge you solemnly in the presence of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ and of the elect angels, that you observe these things without prejudice against any man, and do nothing out of partiality.

In the presence of God who gives life to all, and of Christ Jesus who bore witness to the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

I adjure you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and the dead??y his appearing and his kingdom, I adjure you??2 proclaim the message, be urgent in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, encourage, with never-failing patience and teaching.

On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were accustomed to meet. They were Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

These are the names of the apostles (missionaries). First, Simon who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;

They were Simon, whom he had also called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John;

There was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter,

"So when you see the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place let the reader take note of this,

in fulfilment of the word spoken by the prophet, I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter things kept secret since the foundation of the world."

So they summoned them, and ordered them not to speak at all, nor to teach in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John said in reply. "Do you decide whether in the sight of God it is right to obey you rather than God; but for our part, we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard."

because John kept telling him, "It is not right for you to have her."

These men, the Twelve, Jesus sent forth, after giving them the following instructions. "Do not go among the Gentiles, or enter any Samaritan town,

But he tried to prevent him. "It is I," he said, "who need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?"

"The hired servant, since he is not a shepherd and does not own his sheep, leaves the sheep and flees when he sees a wolf coming??nd the wolf worries them and scatters them.

and while we remained there many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, and be shepherds of the church of God which he has purchased with his own blood.

"Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Ghost! As your fathers did, so do you.

"I tell you that among all that are born of women not one is greater than John; yet he that is little in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

And his father, Zachariah, was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, saying.

"He sent out his slaves to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they did not want to come.

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

"Go," answered the Lord, "this man is chosen instrument of mine to bear my name before the nations and their kings, and before the Children of Israel also;

No, God has chosen the world's folly to confound its philosophy; and the world's weakness to confound its strength. The world's base things has God chosen, and the things that are not, to bring to naught the things that are;

so that no mortal man should glory in his presence.

Then Mary took a pound of pure spikenard, very costly, and poured it over his feet, and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

So Peter arose and went with them. On his arrival they took him up-stairs, and all the widows stood near him, weeping, and showing him the cloaks and garments which Dorcas used to make, while she was still with them.

The twelve were with him, and certain women whom he had delivered from evil spirits and various diseases. Mary of Magdala, out of whom seven demons have been driven, and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who used to minister to him out of their substance.