31 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities

Choose wise and discerning and experienced men from your tribes, and I will appoint them as your heads.’

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

and that you esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Live in peace with one another.

Therefore, brethren, select from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may put in charge of this task.

Furthermore, you shall select out of all the people able men who fear God, men of truth, those who hate dishonest gain; and you shall place these over them as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties and of tens.

And he must have a good reputation with those outside the church, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

It is a trustworthy statement: if any man aspires to the office of overseer, it is a fine work he desires to do.

namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.

I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you; and I will make you a great name, like the names of the great men who are on the earth.

The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock;
And exalted be the God of my salvation,

Then this Daniel began distinguishing himself among the commissioners and satraps because he possessed an extraordinary spirit, and the king planned to appoint him over the entire kingdom.

Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,

He must be one who manages his own household well, keeping his children under control with all dignity

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for he was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years.

or he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who gives, with liberality; he who leads, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Woe to you, O land, whose king is a lad and whose princes feast in the morning.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
The heavens are telling of the glory of God;
And their expanse is declaring the work of His hands.

He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,
And sets me upon my high places.

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

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and your flesh.

Now 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 selected a king for Myself among his sons.”

When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him.”

Yet no one was speaking openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When I will raise up for David a righteous Branch;
And He will reign as king and act wisely
And do justice and righteousness in the land.

So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and Matthias.

Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thickets of the Jordan against a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make him run away from it, and whoever is chosen I shall appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand against Me?”

Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding himself among us?”
Save me, O God, by Your name,
And vindicate me by Your power.

So Jesus answered them and said, “My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.