31 Bible Verses about Leadership Qualities

Take ye 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.

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

Moreover, thou shalt 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 without; 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 desireth the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

If any is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children, not accused of riot, or disorderly.

And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thy enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like to the name of the great men that are in the earth.

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

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

But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, long-suffering, charity, patience,

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

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 exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that showeth mercy, with cheerfulness.

Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth the work of his hands.

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth 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 to Hebron, and spoke, saying, Behold, we are thy bone and thy flesh.

And the LORD said to Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

And it came to pass when they had come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the LORD'S anointed is before him.

Yet, no man spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise to David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice upon the earth.

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

Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling 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 appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

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

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when the Ziphims came and said to Saul, Doth not David hide himself with us? Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy 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 beings, and in the midst of the elders stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns, and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.