Bible Verses about “removing leaders”
The Bible contains 36 verses about removing leaders across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;”
“The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;”
“If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the assembly. If he refuses to hear the assembly also, let him be to you as a Gentile or a tax collector.”
“Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.”
“Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don't give up.”
“(but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)”
“Take heed, therefore, to yourselves, and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the assembly of the Lord and God which he purchased with his own blood.”
“Avoid a factious man after a first and second warning;”
“one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;”
“not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous;”
“This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.”
“not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.”
“Moreover he must have good testimony from those who are outside, to avoid falling into reproach and the snare of the devil.”
“Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money;”
“Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.”
“Let servants be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.”
“Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.”
“holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.”
“For those who have served well gain for themselves a good standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.”
“but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
“Let them also first be tested; then let them serve if they are blameless.”
“Where there is no wise guidance, the nation falls, but in the multitude of counselors there is victory.”
“These things I write to you, hoping to come to you shortly;”
“Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.”
“For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.”
“But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."”
“For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.”
“He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;”
“Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”
“When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice; but when the wicked rule, the people groan.”
“even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."”
“Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.”
“It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.”
“Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.”
“Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,”
“But Jesus summoned them, and said, "You know that the rulers of the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.”