18 Bible Verses about Examples of Leadership

In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:

And all the generations of the earth being reckoned as nothing: and doing according to his station in the army of the heavens, and the generations of the earth: and there is none that shall strike upon his hand, and say to him, What didst thou?

The counsel of Jehovah shall stand forever, the purposes of his heart to generation and generation.

Many purposes in a man's heart: and the counsel of Jehovah, that shall stand.

O Jehovah, thou my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name, for thou didst a wonder; counsels from far off, stability, faithfulness.

And Jehovah will say, Seeing, I saw the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and I heard their cry from the face of their pressers; and I knew their pains.

And he being compassionate will cover iniquity, and he will not destroy: and he multiplied to turn back his anger, and he will not rouse up all his wrath.

For if he afflicted, and he compassionated according to the multitude of his mercy.

I will draw them with the cords of man, with the bands of love: and I will be to them as those lifting up the yoke upon their jaw-bones, and I will gently give them to eat

And Jehovah thy God turned back thy captivity, and pitied thee, and he turned back and gathered thee from all the peoples, where Jehovah thy God scattered thee there.

For thus said the high and lifted up inhabiting eternity, and his name Holy; being lifted up, and I will dwell in the holy place, and with the broken and humble of spirit, to preserve alive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the broken.

To see those being humbled in the heavens and in the earth?

He remembered for us our lowness: for his mercy is forever:

If Jehovah is high, and he will see the humble one: and the lofty one he will know from far off.

And the Pharisees, seeing, said to his disciples, Wherefore does your teacher eat with tax collectors and the sinful?

I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see.

And the spirit of Jehovah resting upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of Jehovah:

I will praise Jehovah who counseled me: also the night my reins instructed me.

In thy counsel thou wilt guide me, and after, thou wilt receive me with glory.

Also this shall come forth from Jehovah of armies, he being wonderful of counsel and great of understanding.

And Elijah will say to her, Thou shalt not fear; go and do according to thy word: but make to me from thence a little cake at first, and bring forth to me, and for thee and for thy son thou shalt make at last

But seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these shall be added to you.

For to me all the first-born: in the day I struck all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I consecrated to me every first-born in Israel, from man to cattle: to me they shall be: I am Jehovah.

And thou tookest from the first of all the fruit of the land which thou shalt bring from thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, and put in a basket, and go to the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.

Having cast all your care upon him; for to him is the care for you.

Jehovah remembered us: he will bless, he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.

For all these the nations seek for; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these.

But also the hairs of your head were all numbered. Therefore fear not: ye have the preeminence over many little sparrows.

Also I will choose upon their vexations, and I will bring their fears to them; for I called, and none answered; I spake, and they heard not: and they will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, they chose.

Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending;

And my people heard not to my voice; and Israel was not inclined to me.

And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose.

And now, because ye did all these works, says Jehovah, and I will speak to you, rising early and speaking, and ye heard not; and I will call you and ye answered not;

And if evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served which are beyond the river, and whether the gods of the Amorite which ye dwelt in their land: and I and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

See, I gave before thy face this day the life and the good, and the death and the evil;

And she will say, Behold, thy sister-in-law turned back to her people, and to her gods: turn thou back after thy sister-in-law.

And Elijah will draw near to all the people and say, How long halt ye upon two opinions? if Jehovah is God, go ye after him: and if Baal, go ye after him. And the people answered him not a word.

Therefore they assembled together, Pilate laid to them, Whom will ye I shall loose to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, called Christ?

And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him hearing say, Come. And let him thirsting come. And let him wishing, take the water of life freely.

Who wills all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Look to me all ye ends of the earth and be saved, for I am God, and none else.

Ho, every one thirsting, Come ye to the waters, and whom there is not to him silver, come ye, buy and eat; and come ye, and buy without silver and without price, wine and milk.

Go ye, therefore, to the passages of the ways, and as many as ye should find, call to the nuptial feast.

And they serving the Lord, and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, Separate to me Barnabas and Saul to the work which I have called them.

And I shall hear the voice of Jehovah, saying, Whom shall I send, and who shall go for us? and behold me saying, Send me.

And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying,

Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and call against it; for their evil came up before me.

And when he saw the vision, we quickly sought to come out to Macedonia, concluding that the Lord called us to announce good news to them.

And thou, bring thou Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from the midst of the sons of Israel, for him to be a priest to me, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, sons of Aaron.

See, I called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.

And now come, and I will send thee to Pharaoh, and bring thou forth my people, the sons of Israel out of Egypt

And he will go from thence and find Elisha son of Shaphat, and he ploughed with twelve yoke before him, and he with the twelve: and Elijah will pass away by him, and he will cast his wide cloak to him.

And Jehovah will say to Abram, Go for thyself from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, to the land which I will shew thee.

And Jehovah will turn to him and say, Go in this thy strength and save Israel from the hand of Midian: did I not send thee?

But arise, and stand upon thy feet: for, for this was I sent to thee, to take thee in hand, a servant and witness both of what things thou sawest, and of what I shall be seen to thee;

And David will say to Saul, Who am I? and who was my father's family in Isarel that I shall be son-in-law to the king?

And Saul will answer and say, Am not I a son of the Jaminite, from the littleness of the tribes of Israel, and my family small more than all the families of the tribes of Benjamin and wherefore spakest thou to me according to this word?

And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah, behold I knew not to speak: for I a boy.

And John hindered him, saying, I have need to be immersed by thee, and dost thou come to me?

And Moses will say to God, Who am I that I shall go to Pharaoh, and that I shall bring forth the sons of Israel, out of Egypt?

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.

And he will say to him, With leave, my Lord, by what shall I save Israel? behold, my thousand destitute in Manasseh, and I the least in my father's house.

And saying, Wo to me! for I was cut off; because I a man of unclean lips, and in the midst of a people of unclean lips I dwell: for mine eyes saw the king, Jehovah of armies.