Bible Verses About Man as Leader
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for man as leader, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 860 votes, led by 1 Timothy 3:1-16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Man as Leader
1 Timothy 3:1-1671 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1 Peter 3:770 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 2:1256 votes
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
1 Peter 3:1-2241 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;
Colossians 3:1840 votes
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.
1 Corinthians 11:337 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.
Genesis 2:1836 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 Timothy 3:126 votes
This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
1 Timothy 3:1222 votes
Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.
Genesis 2:2321 votes
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Exodus 18:2121 votes
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:
1 Corinthians 14:3321 votes
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Matthew 20:2618 votes
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Genesis 3:1617 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 6:417 votes
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Genesis 2:2216 votes
And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
1 Timothy 3:1516 votes
But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
1 Timothy 4:1216 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 14:3415 votes
Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.
Ephesians 4:115 votes
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
Philippians 4:1315 votes
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Hebrews 13:1715 votes
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.
1 Peter 3:115 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;
Philippians 2:314 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Luke 6:3113 votes
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
What does the Bible say about man as leader?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 3:1-16 on the subject of man as leader. Across 860 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Peter 3:7, 1 Timothy 2:12, 1 Peter 3:1-22. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.