31 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities
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Take wise men with understanding, who are known among your tribes. I will make them rulers over you.'
and chose capable men from among all the Israelites. He appointed them as leaders of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.
To esteem them very highly in love because of the work they do. And be at peace among yourselves.
Therefore brothers select seven men who have a good reputation. Men who are full of spirit and wisdom that we may appoint to take care of this business.
You should choose capable men from all the people. Find men who respect God. These must be men you can trust who hate corruption. Put them in charge of groups of thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens.
He must have a good reputation with those outside the congregation, so that he will not fall into reproach and the snare of the Devil.
The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach;
Faithful is the saying: If a man seeks the office of overseer, he desires a good work.
A blameless man will be the husband of one wife. He will have children that believe and who are not accused of violence and disobedience.
I was with you wherever you went. I destroyed all your enemies in front of you. I will make your name famous like the names of the greatest people on earth.
Daniel was distinguished above the other commissioners and the governors because an excellent spirit (mind) was in him. Therefore the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
You carefully follow my teaching in conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, and patience,
one who manages well his own house, having his children in subjection with all seriousness;
When the man mentioned the Ark of God Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He was so old and fat that the fall broke his neck and he died. He was a leader in Israel for forty years.
or he who exhorts; on exhortation; he who gives let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child and your princes eat in the morning!
([Psalm of David]) The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made.
This also included Zadok, a young warrior, with twenty-two members of his family who were all officers.
All the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said to him: We are your own flesh and blood.
Jehovah said to Samuel: How long will you mourn for Saul? After all I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go. I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite. I have a king from among his sons.
When they entered he looked at Eliab and thought: Surely Jehovah's anointed is before Him.
The days are coming, declares Jehovah, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch. He will reign as king and act wisely and do justice and righteousness in the land.
They proposed two men: Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.
Like a lion coming out of the thick woods along the Jordan River up to the green pastureland, I will come and make the Edomites run away suddenly from their country. Then the leader I choose will rule the nation. Who can be compared to me? Who would dare challenge me? What ruler could oppose me?
From Paul, who is an apostle not from men nor through men but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.
([Psalm of David]) Save me, O God, by your name, and judge me by your strength.
I saw a Lamb that looked as though it had been slain, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders. The lamb had seven horns and seven eyes. These are the seven Spirits of God sent into all the earth.
