24 Bible Verses about Leaders

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! slaying the prophets and stoning those who have been sent to you! How often I would fain have gathered your children as a fowl gathers her brood under her wings! But you would not have it!

So they were repelled by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet never goes without honour except in his native place and in his home."

Now when the high priests and their attendants saw him, they yelled, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said, "Take him and crucify him yourselves! I find nothing wrong about him."

So, too, the high priests made fun of him with the scribes and the elders of the people.

But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release Bar-Abbas for them instead.

Hence, as I hold this ministry by God's mercy to me, I never lose heart in it;

Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power;

and he has further qualified me to be the minister of a new covenant ??a covenant not of written law but of spirit; for the written law kills but the Spirit makes alive.

Of that gospel I have been appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher,

(for this was why the gospel was preached to the dead as well, that while they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live as God lives in the spirit).

he preached the Reign of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ quite openly and unmolested.

while they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word by the miracles that endorsed it. (b) But they gave Peter and his companions a brief account of all these injunctions. And, after that, Jesus himself sent out by means of them from east to west the sacred and imperishable message of eternal salvation.

In those days John the Baptist came on the scene, preaching in the desert of Judaea,

Then I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven with an eternal gospel for the inhabitants of the earth, for every nation and tribe and tongue and people;

Still, false prophets did appear among the People, as among you also there will be false teachers, men who will insinuate destructive heresies, even disowning the Lord who ransomed them; they bring rapid destruction on themselves,

Anyone who teaches novelties and refuses to fall in with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the doctrine that tallies with piety,

through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience ??3 men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving.

doctors of the Law is what they want to be, but they have no idea either of the meaning of the words they use or of the themes on which they harp.

for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies;

He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come.

who were annoyed at them teaching the people and proclaiming Jesus as an instance of resurrection from the dead.

Philip travelled down to a town in Samaria, where he preached Christ to the people.

Then Philip opened his lips, and starting from this scripture preached the gospel of Jesus to him.

He lost no time in preaching throughout the synagogues that Jesus was the Son of God ??21 to the amazement of all his hearers, who said, "Is this not the man who in Jerusalem harried those who invoke this Name, the man who came here for the express purpose of carrying them all in chains to the high priests?"

You know the message he sent to the sons of Israel when he preached the gospel of peace by Jesus Christ (who is Lord of all);

and as he belonged to the same trade he stayed with them and they all worked together. (They were workers in leather by trade.)

Brothers, you recollect our hard labour and toil, how we worked at our trade night and day, when we preached the gospel to you, so as not to be a burden to any of you.

you know yourselves how these hands of mine provided everything for my own needs and for my companions.

we did not take free meals from anyone; no, toiling hard at our trade, we worked night and day, so as not to be a burden to any of you.

For two full years he remained in his private lodging, welcoming anyone who came to visit him;

And he said to them, "Go to all the world and preach the gospel to every creature:

what I tell you in the dark, you must utter in the open, what you hear in a whisper you must proclaim on the housetop.

And preach as you go, tell men, 'The Reign of heaven is near.'

I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching,

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

Scripture says, You must not muzzle an ox when he is treading the grain, and A workman deserves his wages.

nor a wallet for the road, nor two shirts, nor sandals, nor stick ??the workman deserves his rations.

so the Lord's instructions were that those who proclaim the gospel are to get their living by the gospel?

Those who are taught must share all the blessings of life with those who teach them the Word.

But you were kind enough to take your share in my trouble.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.

For the third time he asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Now Peter was vexed at being asked a third time, "Do you love me?" So he replied; "Lord, you know everything, you can see I love you." Jesus said, "Then feed my sheep.

Now in the local church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers, Barnabas, Symeon (called Niger) and Lucius the Cyrenian, besides Manaen (a foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch) and Saul.

That is to say, God has set people within the church to be first of all apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, and speakers in 'tongues' of various kinds.

he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach,

During these days some prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch,

Let only two or three prophets speak, while the rest exercise their judgment upon what is said.

and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher,

Those who have Christian believers as their masters must not take liberties with them because they are brothers; they must be all the better servants because those who get the good of their service are believers and beloved. This is what you are to teach and preach.

Give these orders and teach these lessons.

he must be gentle in his admonitions to the opposition ??God may perhaps let them change their mind and admit the Truth;

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.

to the one a deadly fragrance that makes for death, to the other a vital fragrance that makes for life. And who is qualified for this career?

My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness.

but the second tent is entered only once a year by the high priest alone ??and it must not be without blood, which he presents on behalf of himself and the errors of the People.

Similarly Christ was not raised to the glory of the high priesthood by himself but by Him who declared to him, Thou art my son, to-day have I become thy father.

As he passed along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax-office; he said to him, "Follow me," and he rose and followed him.

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

he called them at once, and they left their father Zebedaeus in the boat with the crew and went to follow him.

and when day broke he summoned his disciples, choosing twelve of them, to whom he gave the name of 'apostles':

Next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee; there he met Philip and told him, "Follow me."

but those who had seized Jesus took him away to the house of Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and elders had gathered.

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food."

When he entered the temple, the high priests and elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you this authority?"

Immediately morning came, the high priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and all the Sanhedrin, and after binding Jesus they led him off and handed him over to Pilate.

as the high priest and all the council of elders can testify. It was from them that I got letters to the brotherhood at Damascus, and then journeyed thither to bind those who had gathered there and bring them back to Jerusalem for punishment.

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.

In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial.

In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,

On entering the city they went to the upper room where they were in the habit of meeting; there were Peter, John, James, Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James (the son of Alphaeus) and Simon who had been a Zealot, with Judas the son of James.

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon (who is called Peter) and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedaeus and John his brother,

Simon (to whom he gave the name of Peter), Andrew his brother, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew,

there was Simon, whom he surnamed Peter,

So when you see the appalling Horror spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing erect in the holy place (let the reader note this),

So they called the men in and ordered them not to speak or teach a single sentence about the Name of Jesus. But Peter and John replied, "Decide for yourselves whether it is right before God to obey you rather than God. Certainly we cannot give up speaking of what we have seen and heard."

since John had told him, "You have no right to her."

These twelve men Jesus despatched with the following instructions, "Do not go among the Gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,

John tried to prevent him; "I need to get baptized by you," he said, "and you come to me!"

The hired man, who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, deserts them when he sees the wolf coming; he runs away, leaving the wolf to tear and scatter them,

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet called Agabus came down from Judaea.

Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock of which the holy Spirit has appointed you guardians; shepherd the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his own blood.

Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ear, you are always resisting the holy Spirit! As with your fathers, so with you!

I tell you, among the sons of women there is none greater than John, and yet the least in the Realm of God is greater than he is."

And Zechariah his father was filled with the holy Spirit; he prophesied in these words,

He sent his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they would not come.

are placed in the middle of verse 13:31] "I am the real Vine, and my Father is the vine-dresser;

But the Lord said to him, "Go; I have chosen him to be the means of bringing my Name before the Gentiles and their kings as well as before the sons of Israel.

No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong; God has chosen what is mean and despised in the world ??things which are not, to put down things that are;

that no person may boast in the sight of God.

Then Mary, taking a pound of expensive perfume, real nard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, till the house was filled with the scent of the perfume.

So Peter got up and went with them. When he arrived, they took him up to the room, where all the widows stood beside him crying as they showed him the garments and dresses that Dorcas used to make when she was with them.

and by some women who had been healed of evil spirits and illnesses, Mary called Magdalene (out of whom seven daemons had been driven), Joanna the wife of Chuza the chancellor of Herod, Susanna, and a number of others, who ministered to him out of their means.