Matthew 20:27
Whoever desires to be first amongst you shall be your bondservant,
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In The King James Version
And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
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Cross References
Matthew 18:4Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Luke 22:26But not so with you. Rather, the one who is greater amongst you, let him become as the younger, and one who is governing, as one who serves.
Romans 1:14I am debtor both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to the wise and to the foolish.
2 Corinthians 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake,
2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labours more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.
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 →