Leadership Verses

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. {used...: or, ministered}

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat {him} as a father; {and} the younger men as brethren;

The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity.

And withal they learn {to be} idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses. {before: or, under}

Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and {his} doctrine be not blasphemed.

Which in his times he shall shew, {who is} the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all {men}, apt to teach, patient, {patient: or, forbearing}