Matthew 20:27
Whoever among you wants to be first will be like a slave.
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And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
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Matthew 18:4“But whoever humbles themselves and becomes like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Luke 22:26But it should not be so with you! Whoever is highest among you should be like the lowest, and the leader should be like a servant.
Romans 1:14For I have an obligation to work for both the civilized and the uncivilized, both the educated and the uneducated.
2 Corinthians 4:5We are not promoting ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord. In fact we are your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I know I'll sound like I'm crazy, talking like this.) But I have done so much more. I've worked harder, been imprisoned more often, whipped more times than I can count, faced death time and again.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 20:21-29
Ambition Corrected. 20 Then came to him the mother of Zebedee's children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him. 21 And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom. 22 But Jesus answered and said, Ye know not what ye ask. Are ye able to drink of the cup that I shall drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with? They say unto him, We are able. 23… Read the whole commentary →