Verse 27

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

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  • Mark 9:33-35 : 33 And he came to Capernaum; and being in the house, he asked them, What was it you disputed among yourselves on the way? 34 But they kept silent, for on the way they had disputed among themselves who would be the greatest. 35 And he sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all.
  • Luke 22:26 : 26 But you 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 serves.
  • Acts 20:34-35 : 34 Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have provided for my necessities, and for those who were with me. 35 I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
  • Rom 1:14 : 14 I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise.
  • 1 Cor 9:19-23 : 19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more. 20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win the Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; 21 To those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law. 22 To the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the sake of the gospel, that I may be a partaker of it with you.
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
  • 2 Cor 11:5 : 5 For I consider that I am not in any way inferior to the very chief apostles.
  • 2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often. 24 From the Jews five times I received forty lashes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have been in the deep; 26 In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own 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 weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
  • Matt 18:4 : 4 Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.