Leadership Verses

Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning {here} in fear:

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, {even to them} which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.

Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;

Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

As free, and not using {your} liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. {using: Gr. having}

Honour all {men}. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. {Honour all: or, Esteem all}

Servants, {be} subject to {your} masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed {himself} to him that judgeth righteously: {himself: or, his cause}

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with {them} to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of {you}: