What Does The Bible Say About?

35 Verses|| 175 Engagements

2 Timothy 3:16

13 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 13:17

13 helpful votes

Obey 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.

Acts 2:42

8 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 11:13

7 helpful votes

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

Acts 17:11

7 helpful votes

Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true.

Matthew 23:3

7 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 4:15-17

6 helpful votes

Even if you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. Therefore I urge you to imitate me. That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.

3 John 1:9-10

6 helpful votes

I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction. So if I come, I will call attention to his malicious slander against us. And unsatisfied with that, he refuses to welcome the brothers and forbids those who want to do so, even putting them out of the church.

Job 7:1-21

6 helpful votes

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand? Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages. So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me. When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn. My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering. . . .

Malachi 3:6

6 helpful votes

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

Matthew 23:1-3

6 helpful votes

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

Matthew 23:23-24

6 helpful votes

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

Matthew 4:1-25

6 helpful votes

Then 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. . . .

3 John 1:2

5 helpful votes

Beloved, I pray that in every way you may prosper and enjoy good health, as your soul also prospers.

Luke 22:26

5 helpful votes

But 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.

Matthew 23:13

5 helpful votes

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Matthew 23:15

5 helpful votes

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

Matthew 23:6-7

5 helpful votes

They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues, the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed.

Ezekiel 34:1-6

4 helpful votes

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock? You eat the fat, wear the wool, and butcher the fattened sheep, but you do not feed the flock. You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty. They were scattered for lack of a shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild beasts. . . .

Galatians 6:12-13

4 helpful votes

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ. For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

Genesis 1:1

4 helpful votes

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

2 Corinthians 9:7

3 helpful votes

Each one should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not out of regret or compulsion. For God loves a cheerful giver.

Ezekiel 34:4

3 helpful votes

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

Galatians 2:12

3 helpful votes

For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself, for fear of those in the circumcision group.

Galatians 2:4

3 helpful votes

This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

James 5:16

3 helpful votes

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man has great power to prevail.

John 14:6

3 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 3:16

3 helpful votes

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:2

3 helpful votes

He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”

Matthew 16:12

3 helpful votes

Then they understood that He was not telling them to beware of the leaven used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:6

3 helpful votes

“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 23:16-17

3 helpful votes

Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?

Matthew 23:34

3 helpful votes

Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.

Revelation 19:11-21

3 helpful votes

Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war. He has eyes like blazing fire, and many royal crowns on His head. He has a name written on Him that only He Himself knows. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is The Word of God. The armies of heaven, dressed in fine linen, white and pure, follow Him on white horses. And from His mouth proceeds a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and He will rule them with an iron scepter. He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. . . .

2 Chronicles 6:30

2 helpful votes

be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—

Suggest a verse for topic "Spiritual Leaders"

If you have an additional reference verse for "Spiritual Leaders" please enter it below.

e.g. John 10:28 or John 10:28-30

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z