25 Bible Verses about Leaders

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets, and stoning those sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children together, as a bird gathers her brood under her wings, but you would not!

And they were offended with him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor, except in his native country, and in his own house;

When therefore the chief priests and officers saw him, they cried, saying, Crucify him! crucify him! Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no fault in him.

And the chief priests in like manner also mocked him, with the scribes and elders, and said,

But the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas to them.

Therefore, having this ministry, as we have obtained mercy we faint not,

of which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by the operation of his power.

if indeed you continue founded and established in the faith, and not moved from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached in all the creation under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a minister.

who also has made us able ministers of the new covenant, not of the writing but of the spirit; for the writing kills, but the spirit makes alive.

of which I was made a herald, and an apostle, and a teacher of the nations;

And for this cause was the gospel preached also to the dead, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.

preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching the doctrines concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance.

And they went abroad and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the accompanying miracles.

AND in those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the eternal gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth and to every nation and tribe and tongue and people,

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;

If any one teaches differently, and consents not to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the doctrine which is according to piety,

[misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose consciences are cauterized,

desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions.

for the time will come when they will not endure sound instruction, but will accumulate for themselves teachers according to their desires, pleasing their ear,

And he sent his servants to call the invited to the wedding, and they would not come.

being displeased because they taught the people and declared by Jesus the resurrection of the dead;

and Philip going down to a city of Samaria preached Christ to them.

And Philip opening his mouth, and beginning from this Scripture, preached to him the good news of Jesus.

and immediately in the synagogues he preached Jesus, that this is the Son of God.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching the good news of peace by Jesus Christ,??e is Lord of all,??37 you know; the word which was [preached] through all Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism which John preached,

and because he was of the same trade continued and labored with them; for they were tent makers.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and weariness; that working night and day not to be burdensome to any one of you, we preached to you the gospel of God.

you yourselves know that these hands have served my necessities and those with me.

neither did we eat bread of any one for nought, but worked with labor and fatigue, night and day, not to be burdensome to any of you;

But Paul continued two entire years in his hired house, and received all who came to him,

And he said to them, Go into all the world, preach the good news to all the creation;

What I tell you in darkness, speak in the light, and what you hear in the ear, preach on the house-tops.

and as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

preach the word, press it in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and instruction;

But he said to him, Let the dead bury their dead, but do you go and proclaim abroad the kingdom of God.

For the Scripture says, You shall not muzzle the ox that threshes; and, The laborer is worthy of his reward.

nor a provision sack for the way, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor staves; for the laborer is worthy of his support;

So also the Lord has appointed to those who preach the gospel to live by the gospel.

Let him that is taught the word communicate with him that teaches of all good things.

But you did well to communicate with my affliction,

Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

He said to him a third time; Simon, son of John, are you a friend to me? Peter was grieved that he said to him the third time, Are you a friend to me? and he said to him, Lord you know all things; you know that I am a friend to you. Jesus said to him, Feed my sheep.

And there were prophets and teachers in the church at Antioch; Barnabas and Simeon called Niger [the black], and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen the foster brother of Herod the Tetrarch, and Saul.

And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues.

And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,

And in those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch;

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the rest judge;

teaching them to keep all things which I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you always till the consummation of the world.

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

And let those who have believing masters not despise them, because they are brothers, but rather serve, because they are believers and beloved, who partake of the benefit. These things teach and exhort.

These things command and teach.

in meekness correcting the adversaries, that God may give them a change of mind to a knowledge of the truth,

Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.

in one an odor of death to death, and in the other an odor of life to life. And who is sufficient for these things?

BE not many of you teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment.

but into the second once a year only the chief priest [enters], not without blood, which he offers for his errors and those of the people,

So also Christ did not put on himself the honor of being made a chief priest, but he that said to him, Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten thee;

And passing by he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus, sitting at the custom house, and said to him, Follow me; and he arose and followed him.

And Jesus said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishermen of men.

and he immediately called them. And leaving their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired men, they went away after him.

And when it was day he called his disciples; and having chosen twelve of them, whom he named apostles,

On the next day he wished to go to Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, Follow me.

And having taken Jesus, they led him away to Caiaphas, the chief priest, where the scribes and elders were assembled.

Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders, for they wash not their hands when they eat bread?

AND Jesus having gone into the temple, the chief priests and elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority do you do these things? and who gave you this authority?

And immediately in the morning, the chief priests taking counsel with the elders, and scribes, and all the Sanhedrim, bound Jesus, and brought and delivered him to Pilate.

as the chief priest also bears me witness, and all the eldership, from whom also receiving letters to the brothers I went to Damascus, to bring those who were there bound to Jerusalem to be punished.

Obey your guides and be in subjection; for they watch for your souls as having to give an account, that they may do this with joy and not with grief; for this is unprofitable for you.

I charge you before God, and Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you keep these things without prejudice, doing nothing from partiality.

I charge you before the God who gives life to all [creatures], and Christ Jesus who made the good profession before Pontius Pilate,

I earnestly charge you before God and Christ Jesus who is about to judge the living and dead, and [by] his appearing and his kingdom,

And when they came, they went up into the upper room where staid Peter and John, and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the [brother] of James.

And the names of the twelve apostles are these; First, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John his brother;

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

And he gave to Simon the name of Peter. [He appointed him],

When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in a holy place??et him that reads understand,??16 then let those in Judea flee to the mountains.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things which have been concealed from the foundation of the world.

And calling them, they charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to obey you rather than God, judge; for we cannot but tell what we have seen and heard.

For John had said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her.

These twelve Jesus sent out and charged them, saying; Go not into a way of gentiles, and enter not into a city of Samaritans,

But, he refused him, saying, I have need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?

But the hired servant, and one who is not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf seizes and scatters them;

And having continued there many days, there came down a certain prophet from Judea by the name of Agabus,

Take heed to yourselves, therefore, and to all the flock in which the Holy Spirit has made you bishops, to feed the church of the Lord which he has purchased with his blood.

Stiff necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always fight against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, you also do.

I tell you, that among those born of women there is no greater prophet than John; but the least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

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

And he sent his servants to call the invited to the wedding, and they would not come.

You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should continue, that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.

But the Lord said to him, Go, for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name both before nations and kings, and the children of Israel;

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world has God chosen to put to shame the mighty, and the ignoble things of the world and things that are despised has God chosen, and things that are not, to destroy things that are,

that no flesh may glory in the sight of God.

Then Mary taking a pound of genuine nard, very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hairs. And the house was filled with the odor of the ointment.

And Peter arose and came with them; and when he had come they led him into the upper room, and all the widows stood by weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

and certain women who had been cured of evil spirits and infirmities, Mary called Magdalene, from whom went out seven demons, and Joanna the wife of Chusa, Herod's steward, and Susannah, and many others, who served them with their property.