Matthew 20:27

American Standard Version (1901)

and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:

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  • Mark 9:33-35 : 33 And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house he asked them, What were ye reasoning on the way? 34 But they held their peace: for they had disputed one with another on the way, who [was] the greatest. 35 And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.
  • Luke 22:26 : 26 But ye [shall] not [be] so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
  • Acts 20:34-35 : 34 Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me. 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
  • Rom 1:14 : 14 I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
  • 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 For though I was free from all [men], I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more. 20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 to them that are without law, as without law, not being without law to God, but under law to Christ, that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 23 And I do all things for the gospel's sake, that I may be a joint partaker thereof.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
  • 2 Cor 11:5 : 5 For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
  • 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • Matt 18:4 : 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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    42And Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they who are accounted to rule over the Gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.

    43But it is not so among you: but whosoever would become great among you, shall be your minister;

    44and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.

    45For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

  • Matt 20:25-26
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    25But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.

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  • Matt 23:10-12
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    10Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, [even] the Christ.

    11But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

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    23And they began to question among themselves, which of them it was that should do this thing.

    24And there arose also a contention among them, which of them was accounted to be greatest.

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    26But ye [shall] not [be] so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

    27For which is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am in the midst of you as he that serveth.

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    35And he sat down, and called the twelve; and he saith unto them, If any man would be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all.

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    28even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

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    16So the last shall be first, and the first last.

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    26If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will the Father honor.

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    30But many shall be last [that are] first; and first [that are] last.

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    14If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

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    31But many [that are] first shall be last; and the last first.

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    47Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he hath.

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