Bible Verses About Male Leadership
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for male leadership, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,150 votes, led by 1 Timothy 2:11-15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Male Leadership
1 Timothy 2:11-15132 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
1 Corinthians 11:3113 votes
But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
1 Peter 3:793 votes
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Timothy 2:1268 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Ephesians 5:21-3362 votes
Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
1 Peter 3:1-754 votes
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Genesis 2:1849 votes
And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
1 Corinthians 16:13-1446 votes
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Titus 1:5-942 votes
For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:
Titus 1:934 votes
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
Genesis 3:1633 votes
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Ephesians 5:2533 votes
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
1 Timothy 3:231 votes
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
1 Timothy 3:1-729 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Titus 2:3-523 votes
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
Acts 20:2818 votes
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.
Ephesians 6:416 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Titus 1:616 votes
If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
1 Timothy 3:1-615 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Hebrews 5:1214 votes
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Acts 18:2613 votes
And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.
Galatians 3:2813 votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:1613 votes
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 5:1213 votes
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
1 Timothy 2:1113 votes
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
What does the Bible say about male leadership?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:11-15 on the subject of male leadership. Across 1,150 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 11:3, 1 Peter 3:7, 1 Timothy 2:12. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.