But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
Parallel translations
- KJV But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
- BSB The greatest among you shall be your servant.
- NKJV But he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.
- NASB But the greatest of you shall be your servant.
- NLT The greatest among you must be a servant.
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Cross-references · 9
- 1 Cor 9:19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
- Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
- John 13:14–15If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
- Mark 10:43–44But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
- 2 Cor 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;
- Luke 22:26–27But not so with you. But one who is the greater among you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.
- Phil 2:5–8Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,
- Matt 20:26–27It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.
- 2 Cor 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.
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