31 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities

Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers 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 very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

Therefore, brethren, pick out from among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

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

Moreover he must have a good report of them who are outside; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

This is a true saying, If a man desires the office of a bishop, he desires a good work.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of rebellion or unruly.

And I was with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies out of your sight, and have made you a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.

The LORD lives; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

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

But you have fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, patience,

One that rules well his own house, having his children in subjection with all respect;

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

Or he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it in simplicity; he that rules, with diligence; he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows his handiwork.

He makes my feet like hinds' feet, and sets 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 spoke, saying, Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go, I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite: 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 the LORD's anointed is before him.

However no man spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the earth.

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

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the thickets of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will arraign me? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

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

[To the Chief Musician on neginoth. A maschil, a Psalm of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, Does not David hide himself with us?] Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your strength.

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

And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb 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.