49 Bible Verses about Servant Leadership

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Matthew 20:26

It must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Luke 22:26

But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving.

Mark 10:43

But it must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Isaiah 55:4

Since I have made him a witness to the peoples,
a leader and commander for the peoples,

Proverbs 30:22

a servant when he becomes king,
a fool when he is stuffed with food,

Micah 6:4

Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt
and redeemed you from that place of slavery.
I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam ahead of you.

1 Kings 3:7

Lord my God, You have now made Your servant king in my father David’s place. Yet I am just a youth with no experience in leadership.

Proverbs 29:12

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

Luke 7:3

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to Him, requesting Him to come and save the life of his slave.

John 18:36

“My kingdom is not of this world,” said Jesus. “If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Jews. As it is, My kingdom does not have its origin here.”

Ecclesiastes 10:16

Woe to you, land, when your king is a youth
and your princes feast in the morning.

Psalm 143:2

Do not bring Your servant into judgment,
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.

Matthew 20:25

But Jesus called them over and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles dominate them, and the men of high position exercise power over them.

Isaiah 3:4

“I will make youths their leaders,
and the unstable will govern them.”

Joshua 1:2

“Moses My servant is dead. Now you and all the people prepare to cross over the Jordan to the land I am giving the Israelites.

Joshua 5:14

“Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as commander of the Lord’s army.”

Then Joshua bowed with his face to the ground in worship and asked Him, “What does my Lord want to say to His servant?”

Psalm 18:43

You have freed me from the feuds among the people;
You have appointed me the head of nations;
a people I had not known serve me.

Exodus 24:13

So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua and went up the mountain of God.

Hebrews 13:24

Greet all your leaders and all the saints. Those who are from Italy greet you.

Jeremiah 25:19

Pharaoh king of Egypt, his officers, his leaders, all his people,

Numbers 11:28

Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth, responded, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”

Jeremiah 30:9

They will serve the Lord their God and I will raise up David their king for them.”

Matthew 18:28

“But that slave went out and found one of his fellow slaves who owed him 100 denarii. He grabbed him, started choking him, and said, ‘Pay what you owe!’

1 Chronicles 17:27

So now, You have been pleased to bless Your servant’s house that it may continue before You forever. For You, Lord, have blessed it, and it is blessed forever.

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers, despising His words, and scoffing at His prophets, until the Lord’s wrath was so stirred up against His people that there was no remedy.

2 Samuel 7:8

“Now this is what you are to say to My servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from following the sheep to be ruler over My people Israel.

Numbers 14:24

But since My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me completely, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.

Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, as the Lord had said.

Numbers 8:25

But at 50 years old he is to retire from his service in the work and no longer serve.

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