Answer: The sins of superiors are, besides the neglect of the duties required of them₁, an inordinate seeking of themselves₂, their own glory₃, ease, profit, or pleasure₄; commanding things unlawful₅, or not in the power of inferiors to perform₆; counseling₇, encouraging₈, or favoring them in that which is evil₉; dissuading, discouraging, or discountenancing them in that which is good₁₀; correcting them unduly₁₁; careless exposing, or leaving them to wrong, temptation, and danger₁₂; provoking them to wrath_13; or any way dishonoring themselves, or lessening their authority, by an unjust, indiscreet, rigorous, or remiss behavior.₁₄

1. Ezk 34:2–4;
2. Phil 2:21;
3. Jn 5:44; 7:18;
4. Isa 56:10–11; Dt 17:17;
5. Dan 3:4–6; Acts 4:17–18;
6. Ex 5:10–18; Mt 23:2, 4;
7. Mt 14:8; Mk 6:24;
8. 2 Sam 13:28;
9. 1 Sam 3:13;
10. Jn 7:46–49; Col 3:21; Ex 5:17;
11. 1 Pet 2:18–20; Heb 12:10; Dt 25:3;
12. Gen 38:11, 26; Acts 18:17;
13. Eph 6:4;
14. Gen 9:21; 1 Kgs 12:13–16; 1:6; 1 Sam 2:29–31