Bible Verses About Bad Leadership

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

If a ruler hearken to lies , all his servants are wicked.

It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

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.

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily , as to the Lord, and not unto men;

But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

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

Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

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.

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

He must increase, but I must decrease.

So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.