Bible Verses About Family Leadership

Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you: the Lord shall rule over you.

One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.

And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

Then the men of Israel said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?

Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren;

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.

Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children,

Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?

But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with us, and laboureth.

Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

A wise servant shall have rule over a son that causeth shame, and shall have part of the inheritance among the brethren.

Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.

And to the genealogy of all their little ones, their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, through all the congregation: for in their set office they sanctified themselves in holiness:

And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father’s household, with bread, according to their families.

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;

Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

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.

I will therefore that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully.

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:

Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

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.

But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.