31 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities

Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads.

And Moses will choose men of ability from all Israel, and he will give them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, chiefs of ten.

And to think them above ordinary in love for their work. Live in peace in yourselves.

Therefore, survey, brethren, seven men of you, being witnesses full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom ye shall set over this need.

And thou shalt look out from all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, men hating gain; and set thou over them chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of ten.

And he must also have good testimony from them without;lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the accuser.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

Faithful the word, If any strive for superintendence, he eagerly desires a good work.

If any be irreproachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not in accusation of licentiousness, or disorderly.

And I will be with thee in all where thou wilt go, and I will cut off all thine enemies from thy face, and I made to thee a great name as the name of the great which are upon the earth.

Jehovah lives; and and praised be my Rock; and the God of my salvation shall be exalted.

Then this Daniel excelling above the presidents and satraps because that an excellent spirit was in him; and the king doing to set him up over all the kingdom.

And thou hast closely followed my doctrine, mode of life, purpose, faith, long suffering, love, patience,

Presiding well over his own house, having the children in subjection with all gravity;

And it will be when he made mention of the ark of God, and he will fall from off the seat backwards by the side of the gate, and his neck will break, and he will die: for he was an old Man and heavy. And he judged Israel forty years.

Whether he beseeching, in supplication: he imparting, in simplicity; he placed before, in earnestness; he compassionating, in cheerfulness.

Wo! to thee, O land: thy king a youth, and thy chiefs will eat in the morning.

To the overseer; chanting of David. The heavens recounting the glory of God, and the firmament announcing the work of his hands.

Setting my feet as the hinds, and he will cause me to stand upon my heights.

And Zadok a youth strong of power, and the house of his father twenty and two chiefs.

And all the tribes of Israel will come to David to Hebron, and they will say, saying, Behold us thy bone and thy flesh.

And Jehovah will say to Samuel, How long mournest thou for Saul, and I rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil, and go; I will send thee to Jesse of the House of Bread, for I saw among his sons a king to me.

And it will be in their coming, and he will see Eliab, and he said, Surely, before Jehovah his Messiah.

However none spake of him with freedom of speech, for fear of the Jews.

Behold the days coming, says Jehovah, and I raised up to David a just sprout, and a king reigned and prospered, and he did judgment and justice in the earth.

And they set two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

Behold, as the lion he shall come up from the excellency of Jordan against the habitation of strength: for I will wink, I will cause him to run from her: and who the chosen I shall appoint to her? for who like me? and who shall testify for me? and who this shepherd which shall stand before me?

Paul, sent, (not from men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, having raised him from the dead;)

To the overseer upon the stringed instrument, instruction to David: In the going of the Ziphims, and they will say to Saul, Is not David hiding with us? O God, in thy name save me, and in thy strength thou wilt judge me.

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

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