What Does the Bible Say About Following Leadership?

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you.

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive, for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church? ...

Romans 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Acts 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.

1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in preaching and teaching.

Matthew 23:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.

Proverbs 8:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

By me princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly.

Hebrews 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

1 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task.

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us.

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jesus said to him, “Be gone, Satan! For it is written, “‘You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve.’”

Matthew 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

Matthew 18:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

22 Bible Verses about Following Leadership

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 23:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 8:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 18:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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22 Bible Verses about Following Leadership

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1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 6:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 John 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Timothy 5:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 23:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 8:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Hebrews 5:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Philippians 3:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 18:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 1 helpful vote