What did Jesus say about Leadership?

Showing verses 34–36

³⁴ “It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
³⁵ Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming—whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
³⁶ lest, coming suddenly, he might find you sleeping.

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³² “But of that day or that hour no one knows—not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
³³ Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
³⁴ “It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
³⁵ Watch therefore, for you don’t know when the lord of the house is coming—whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
³⁶ lest, coming suddenly, he might find you sleeping.
³⁷ What I tell you, I tell all: Watch!”

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Luke 22:31–32; Luke 22:34 · WEBTopic: Leadership

³¹ “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have all of you, that he might sift you as wheat,
³² but I prayed for you, that your faith wouldn’t fail. You, when once you have turned again, establish your brothers.”

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³⁴ “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will by no means crow today until you deny that you know me three times.”

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Luke 12:14–21 · WEBTopic: Leadership

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¹⁴ “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
¹⁵ “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

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¹⁴ “Man, who made me a judge or an arbitrator over you?”
¹⁵ “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
¹⁶ “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
¹⁷ He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
¹⁸ He said, ‘This is what I will do. I will pull down my barns, build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
¹⁹ I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’
²⁰ “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
²¹ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

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Matthew 15:32; Matthew 15:34 · WEBTopic: Leadership

³² “I have compassion on the multitude, because they have continued with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”

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³⁴ “How many loaves do you have?”

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Matthew 23:13–15 · WEBTopic: Leadership

¹³ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
¹⁴ “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

The corresponding KJV saying is Matthew 23:14; this edition uses a different verse number.

The corresponding KJV saying is Matthew 23:13; this edition uses a different verse number.

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Luke 16:1–9 · WEBTopic: Leadership

¹ “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
² He called him, and said to him, ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your management, for you can no longer be manager.’
³ “The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
⁴ I know what I will do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me into their houses.’
⁵ Calling each one of his lord’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?’
⁶ He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’
⁷ Then he said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred cors of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’
⁸ “His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
⁹ I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

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Matthew 23:23–24 · WEBTopic: Leadership

²³ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
²⁴ You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

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Matthew 20:1–16 · WEBTopic: Leadership

Excerpt from The Workers in the Vineyard · showing verses 1–2, 8–9

¹ “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
² When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

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⁸ “When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’
⁹ “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.

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¹ “For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
² When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.
³ He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
⁴ He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.
⁵ Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise.
⁶ About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
⁷ “They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’
⁸ “When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’
⁹ “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
¹⁰ When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.
¹¹ When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,
¹² saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
¹³ “But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius?
¹⁴ Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.
¹⁵ Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’
¹⁶ So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”

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John 18:34; John 18:36–37 · WEBTopic: Leadership

³⁴ “Do you say this by yourself, or did others tell you about me?”

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³⁶ “My Kingdom is not of this world. If my Kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I wouldn’t be delivered to the Jews. But now my Kingdom is not from here.”
³⁷ “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

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Matthew 18:10–14 · WEBTopic: Leadership

¹⁰ See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.
¹¹ For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.
¹² “What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?
¹³ If he finds it, most certainly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine which have not gone astray.
¹⁴ Even so it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.

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Luke 14:26–33 · WEBTopic: Leadership

Showing verses 31–32

³¹ Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
³² Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.

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²⁶ “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
²⁷ Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
²⁹ Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
³⁰ saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’
³¹ Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
³² Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.
³³ So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

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Matthew 23:16–22 · WEBTopic: Leadership

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¹⁶ “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’
¹⁷ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

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¹⁶ “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’
¹⁷ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
¹⁸ And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.’
¹⁹ You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
²⁰ He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it and by everything on it.
²¹ He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by him who has been living in it.
²² He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.

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John 20:19; John 20:21–23 · WEBTopic: Leadership

¹⁹ “Peace be to you.”

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²¹ “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”
²² “Receive the Holy Spirit!
²³ If you forgive anyone’s sins, they have been forgiven them. If you retain anyone’s sins, they have been retained.”

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Matthew 28:18–20 · WEBTopic: Leadership

¹⁸ “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
¹⁹ Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
²⁰ teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

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Luke 15:4–7 · WEBTopic: Leadership

⁴ “Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep and lost one of them, wouldn’t leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was lost, until he found it?
⁵ When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
⁶ When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!’
⁷ I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

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John 16:5–15 · WEBTopic: Leadership

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¹³ However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you.

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⁵ But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’
⁶ But because I have told you these things, sorrow has filled your heart.
⁷ Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I don’t go away, the Counselor won’t come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
⁸ When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;
⁹ about sin, because they don’t believe in me;
¹⁰ about righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you won’t see me any more;
¹¹ about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
¹² “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t bear them now.
¹³ However, when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
¹⁴ He will glorify me, for he will take from what is mine and will declare it to you.
¹⁵ All things that the Father has are mine; therefore I said that he takes of mine and will declare it to you.

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John 10:7–10 · WEBTopic: Leadership

⁷ “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door.
⁸ All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.
⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture.
¹⁰ The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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John 10:25–30 · WEBTopic: Leadership

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²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
²⁸ I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.

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²⁵ “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
²⁶ But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
²⁷ My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
²⁸ I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
²⁹ My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

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Acts 26:14–18 · WEBTopic: Leadership

¹⁴ ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’
¹⁵ ‘I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
¹⁶ But arise, and stand on your feet, for I have appeared to you for this purpose: to appoint you a servant and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will reveal to you;
¹⁷ delivering you from the people and from the Gentiles, to whom I send you,
¹⁸ to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

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Acts 9:4–6 · WEB

⁴ “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
⁵ “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.
⁶ But rise up and enter into the city, then you will be told what you must do.”

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Acts 22:7–8; Acts 22:10 · WEB

⁷ ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
⁸ ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you persecute.’

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¹⁰ ‘Arise, and go into Damascus. There you will be told about all things which are appointed for you to do.’

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Luke 18:2–8 · WEBTopic: Leadership

² “There was a judge in a certain city who didn’t fear God and didn’t respect man.
³ A widow was in that city, and she often came to him, saying, ‘Defend me from my adversary!’
⁴ He wouldn’t for a while; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man,
⁵ yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’”
⁶ “Listen to what the unrighteous judge says.
⁷ Won’t God avenge his chosen ones who are crying out to him day and night, and yet he exercises patience with them?
⁸ I tell you that he will avenge them quickly. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

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