49 Bible Verses about Servant Leadership

And the greater of you shall be your servant.

But it shall not be so among you; but whoever should wish to be great among you, let him be your attendant;

And ye not so: but let the greater with you be as the younger; and he leading, as he serving.

And it shall not be so among you: but whoever should wish to be great among you, shall be your attendant:

And having sat down, he called the twelve, and says to them, If any wish to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.

Whether service, in service: whether he teaching, in instruction;

Behold, I gave him a witness of the nations, a leader and commanding the nations

The rich one will rule over the poor, and he borrowing, a servant to the man lending.

Remember them guiding you, who spake to you the word of God: of whom, observing narrowly the issue of the mode of life, imitate the faith:

And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.

Nor be ye called leaders, for one is your Leader, Christ.

For a servant when he shall reign; and the foolish one when he shall be filled with bread;

For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ:

The disciple is not above the teacher, nor the servant above his lord.

For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of servants I redeemed thee; and I shall send before thy face, Moses, Aaron and, Miriam.

Servants being subjected to masters in all fear; not only to the good and equitable, but also to the crooked.

And now, Jehovah my God, thou madest thy servant king instead of David my father and I a little boy, shall not know to go out and come in.

As the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his soul a ransom for many.

A ruler listening to the word of falsehood, all serving him are unjust

Paul, servant of Jesus Christ, called sent, separated to the good news of God,

And having heard of Jesus, he sent elders of the Jews to him, asking him, that having come, he would save his servant.

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, my servants had contended, that I be not delivered to the Jews; and now my kingdom is not hence.

Wo! to thee, O land: thy king a youth, and thy chiefs will eat in the morning.

And thou wilt not come into judgment with thy servant, for all living shall not be justified before thee.

And the servant of the Lord must not contend; but be gentle to all, giving instruction, enduring evil,

But Jesus, having called them, said, Ye know that the rulers rule over their nations, and the great exercise authority over them.

And I gave boys their chiefs, and the petulant shall rule over them.

Moses my servant died; and now arise, pass through this Jordan, thou and all this people, to the land which I gave to them to the sons of Israel.

And he will say, No; but I chief of the army of Jehovah come now. And Joshua will fall on his face to the earth and will worship him, and will say to him, What speaks my lord to his servant?

Thou wilt deliver me from the contentions of the people; thou wilt set me for head of the nations: a people I knew not shall serve me.

His lord said to him, Well, good and faithful servant; thou wast faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many; enter into the joy of thy lord.

And Moses will rise up, and Joshua, his minister; and Moses will go up to the mountain of God.

Greet all them guiding you, and all the holy.

Jude, servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to the consecrated in God the Father, and the kept in Jesus Christ, the called:

Not so my servant Moses; he was faithful in all my house.

Pharaoh king of Egypt and his servants, and his chiefs, and all his people.

Paul and Timotheus, servants of Jesus Christ, to all the holy in Christ Jesus at Philippi, with the overseers and servants:

And Joshua, son of Nun, serving Moses from his chosen, will answer and say, My lord Moses, restrain them.

And they served Jehovah their God, and David their king whom I will raise up to them.

Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;

But that servant having come, found one of his fellow-servants who owed him one hundred drachmas, and having seized, he choked him, saying, Give back to me what thou owest.

And now thou wert pleased to bless the house of thy servant, to be forever before thee: for thou didst bless, and blessing forever.

For they will be mocking upon the messengers of God, and despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, even to the bringing up the wrath of Jehovah against his people, even to no healing.

And now thus shalt thou say to my servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of armies, I took thee from quiet, from after the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel:

And my servant Caleb, because another spirit was with him, and he will follow after me, and I brought him into the land which he went there; and his seed shall inherit it.

And Moses the servant of Jehovah will die there in the land of Moab, at the mouth of Jehovah.

And I place with you Phebe our sister, being servant of the church in Cenchrea:

For they loved the honour of men more than the honour of God.

And from the son of fifty years, he shall turn back from the warfare of the service, and shall serve no more.