Bible Verses about “lead by example”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“¶ Be ye followers of me, even as I also [am] of Christ.”

“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.”

“¶ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”

“Neither as being lords over [God's] heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.”

“Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight [thereof], not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;”

“For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.”

“Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.”

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”

“Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.”

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

“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”

“And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.”

“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;”

“But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.”

“And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.”

“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.”

“¶ The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:”

“Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.”

“For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same [is] a perfect man, [and] able also to bridle the whole body.”

“Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!”

“And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.”

“For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:”

“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.”

“Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?”

“¶ Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.”

“Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.”

“Behold also the ships, which though [they be] so great, and [are] driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth.”

“Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.”

“¶ Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so as ye have us for an ensample.”