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What Does the Bible Say About Spiritual Leaders?

Here are 7 Bible verses about spiritual leaders, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Hebrews 13:17

    Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

    BSBObey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. To this end, allow them to lead with joy and not with grief, for that would be of no advantage to you.

  2. #22 Timothy 3:16

    All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

    BSBAll Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

  3. #3Acts 2:42

    And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

    BSBThey devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

  4. #4Luke 22:26

    But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

    BSBBut you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

  5. #5Matthew 4:1-25

    Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. …

    BSBThen Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, He was hungry. The tempter came to Him and said, “If You are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took Him to the holy city and set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. “If You are the Son of God,” he said, “throw Yourself down. For it is written: ‘He will command His angels concerning You, and they will lift You up in their hands, so that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’” …

  6. #6Matthew 23:3

    All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

    BSBSo practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

  7. #7Malachi 3:6

    For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

    BSB“Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.

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