31 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities
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Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.'
Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.
if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.
The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation--
Then this Daniel became distinguished above all the other presidents and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him. And the king planned to set him over the whole kingdom.
You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,
As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!
The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
He made my feet like the feet of a deer and set me secure on the heights.
Zadok, a young man mighty in valor, and twenty-two commanders from his own fathers' house.
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, "Behold, we are your bone and flesh.
The LORD said to Samuel, "How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons."
When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed is before him."
"Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for 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 also called Justus, and Matthias.
Behold, like a lion coming up from the jungle of the Jordan against a perennial pasture, I will suddenly make him run away from her. And I will appoint over her whomever I choose. For who is like me? Who will summon me? What shepherd can stand before me?
Paul, an apostle--not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead--
And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth.
