31 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known, according to your tribes, and I will make them heads over you.

And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work's sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Look ye out therefore, brethren, from among you seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

Moreover he must have good testimony from them that are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

Faithful is the saying, If a man seeketh the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

if any man is blameless, the husband of one wife, having children that believe, who are not accused of riot or unruly.

and I have been with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee; and I will make thee a great name, like unto the name of the great ones that are in the earth.

Jehovah liveth; and blessed be my rock; And exalted be the God of my salvation,

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the presidents and the satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

But thou didst follow my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

one that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli feel from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

or he that exhorteth, to his exhorting: he that giveth, let him do it with liberality; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork.

He maketh my feet like hinds feet : And setteth me upon my high places.

and Zadok, a young man mighty of valor, and of his father's house twenty and two captains.

Then came all the tribes of Israel to David unto Hebron, and spake, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

And Jehovah said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go: I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.

And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely Jehovah's anointed is before him.

Yet no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoso is chosen, him will I appoint over it: for who is like me? and who will appoint me a time? and who is the shepherd that will stand before me?

Paul, an apostle (not from men, neither through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead),

Save me, O God, by thy name, And judge me in thy might.

Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.

And I saw in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth.