47 Bible Verses about Servant Leadership

It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

But not so with you. Rather, let the greatest among you become as the youngest, and the leader as one who serves.

But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, "If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

if service, in our serving; the one who teaches, in his teaching;

Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples.

The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

"'And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.

a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;

to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

"A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.

For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

Servants, be subject to your masters with all respect, not only to the good and gentle but also to the unjust.

And now, O LORD my God, you have made your servant king in place of David my father, although I am but a little child. I do not know how to go out or come in.

even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world."

Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!

Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.

And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,

But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

And I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them.

"Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.

And he said, "No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"

You delivered me from strife with the people; you made me the head of the nations; people whom I had not known served me.

His master said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.'

So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who come from Italy send you greetings.

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:

Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house.

Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people,

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:

And Joshua the son of Nun, the assistant of Moses from his youth, said, "My lord Moses, stop them."

But they shall serve the LORD their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife,sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.'

Now you have been pleased to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you, for it is you, O LORD, who have blessed, and it is blessed forever."

But they kept mocking the messengers of God, despising his words and scoffing at his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD rose against his people, until there was no remedy.

Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.

But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD,

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church at Cenchreae,

for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.

And from the age of fifty years they shall withdraw from the duty of the service and serve no more.