14 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities
Most Relevant Verses
Esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. Live in peace among yourselves.
"So, brothers, find from among your own number seven men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom, and we will appoint them over this business.
He should also have a good reputation among outsiders, lest he fall into reproach, and into a snare of the devil.
The minister should be a man of blameless character; he should be husband of but one wife; he should live a sober, self-restrained, orderly life; he should be hospitable, skilled in teaching;
This is a faithful saying, "If any man is seeking the office of a minister he is aspiring to a noble task."
men who are blameless, the husband of one wife, with believing children who are not accused of riot or insubordination.
But you, Timothy, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aims, my faith, patience, love, endurance,
he should be a man who rules his own household well, and keeps his children ever under control and thoroughly well behaved.
Let the teacher give himself to his teaching; and he who exhorts others to his exhortation. He who gives, let him do it in singleness of mind. He who rules, let him rule with diligence; and he who shows mercy must be cheerful.
No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.
So they placed two in nomination, Joseph called Bar-Sabbas (surnamed Justas) and Matthias;
Paul, an apostle sent not from men nor by any man, but by Jesus Christ and by God the Father who raised him from the dead;
In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."
Then I beheld a Lamb standing as if slain in the midst of the throne and of the four Living Creatures, and in the midst of the Elders. He had seven horns and seven eyes (which are the seven Spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth).
