• Isaiah 3:12
  As for My people, children are their oppressors,
  And women rule over them.
  O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err,
  And destroy the way of your paths."
   
• Numbers 27:18
  And the LORD said to Moses: "Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
   
• Isaiah 1:5-6
  Why should you be stricken again?
  You will revolt more and more.
  The whole head is sick,
  And the whole heart faints.
  From the sole of the foot even to the head,
  There is no soundness in it,
  But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;
  They have not been closed or bound up,
  Or soothed with ointment.
  
   
• Ephesians 4:11-13
  And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
   
• 1 Peter 5:2-3
  Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock;
   

Related Scriptures

• Isaiah 3:1-7
  For behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts,
  Takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah
  The stock and the store,
  The whole supply of bread and the whole supply of water;
  The mighty man and the man of war,
  The judge and the prophet,
  And the diviner and the elder;
  The captain of fifty and the honorable man,
  The counselor and the skillful artisan,
  And the expert enchanter.
  " I will give children to be their princes,
  And babes shall rule over them.
  The people will be oppressed,
  Every one by another and every one by his neighbor;
  The child will be insolent toward the elder,
  And the base toward the honorable."
  When a man takes hold of his brother
  In the house of his father, saying,
  “ You have clothing;
  You be our ruler,
  And let these ruins be under your power,”
  In that day he will protest, saying,
  “ I cannot cure your ills,
  For in my house is neither food nor clothing;
  Do not make me a ruler of the people.”
  
   
• 1 Peter 2:9
  But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;