Matthew 23:11
The greatest among you shall be your servant.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
In Context
10Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.
12For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Cross References
Matthew 20:26But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
Luke 22:26But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.
1 Corinthians 9:19Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in worse beatings, in more imprisonments, in frequent danger of death.
Philippians 2:5Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus:
Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:2-13
The Scribes and Pharisees Condemned; Cautions against Pride. 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men:… Read the whole commentary →