19 Bible Verses about Overseers

So then Pharaoh gave command on that day, unto the taskmasters over the people and unto their overseers - saying:

Then said Boaz to his young man, that was set over the reapers, - Whose is this maiden? And the young man that was set over the reapers answered and said, - The Moabitish maiden, is she who came back with Naomi, out of the country of Moab;

besides the chiefs of Solomon's officers, who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, - who ruled over the people that wrought in the work.

And Solomon numbered seventy thousand men to bear burdens, and eighty thousand men to hew in the mountain, - and, to oversee them, three thousand six hundred.

and, at their hand, repaired, the Tekoites, - but, their chiefs, put not their neck into the service of their lords.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, observe her ways, and be wise; Which, having no harvest, scribe, or ruler,

And after that, went the Levites in to do their laborious work in the tent of meeting, before Aaron and before his sons, - as Yahweh commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so, did they unto them.

Of the sons of Asaph, Zaccur and Joseph and Nethaniah and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph, - under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.

And Jehoiada put the oversight of the house of Yahweh into the hand of the priests and the Levites, whom David set by courses over the house of Yahweh, that they might offer up the ascending-sacrifices of Yahweh, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with song, - under the direction of David.

So they took their station - even Jeshua, his sons and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, sons of Judah, as one man to preside over the doer of the work in the house of God, the sons of Henadad, their sons and their brethren, the Levites.

Seraiah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, chief ruler of the house of God;

And when Pashhur son of Immer, the priest, who also was deputy-overseer in the house of Yahweh, heard that Jeremiah had prophesied these things,

And, when evening came, the master of the vineyard saith unto his steward - Call the labourers, and pay the hire, - beginning from the last, unto the first.

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ, - unto all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, with overseers and ministers: -

Be taking heed unto yourselves, and unto all the little flock in which the Holy Spirit hath set, you, as overseers, - to be shepherding the assembly of God which he hath acquired through means of the blood of his own.

Elders, therefore, among you, I exhort - I who am their co-elder and a witness of the sufferings of the Christ, who also, in the glory about to be revealed, have, a share; - Shepherd the beloved flock of God, which is among you, - not by compulsion, but by choice, nor yet for base gain, but of a ready mind, - Nor yet as lording it over the allotted portions, but becoming, ensamples, to the beloved flock;read more.
And, when the Chief Shepherd is manifested, ye shall bear away, the unfading crown of glory.

If anyone, for oversight, is eager, a noble work, doth he covet: - It is needful, then, for, the overseer, to be irreproachable, a husband, of one wife, sober, of sound mind, orderly, hospitable, apt in teaching, Not given to wine, not ready to wound, but considerate, averse to contention, not fond of money,read more.
Over his own house, presiding, well, having, children, in submission, with all dignity; Whereas, if anyone, over his own house, cannot, preside, how, of an assembly of God, shall he take care? Not a new convert, lest, being beclouded, into the sentence of the adversary, he fall; It is needful, moreover, to have, an honourable testimony also, from them who are without, lest, into reproach, he fall, and the snare of the adversary.

For it is needful that the overseer be - unaccusable, as God's steward, not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine, not ready to wound, not seeking gain by base means,

For ye were as sheep going astray, but have now turned back unto the shepherd and overseer of your souls.