Matthew 23:11
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11 The greatest among you will be your servant.(A)
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1 Corinthians 9:19
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19 For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might gain all the more.(A)
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John 13:14-15
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14 So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.(A) 15 For I have set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you.(B)
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Mark 10:43-44
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43 But it is not so among you; instead, whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant,(A) 44 and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all.
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Galatians 5:13
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13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence,[a] but through love become enslaved to one another.(A)
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- 5.13 Gk the flesh
2 Corinthians 4:5
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5 For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’s sake.(A)
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Luke 22:26-27
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26 But not so with you; rather, the greatest among you must become like the youngest and the leader like one who serves.(A) 27 For who is greater, the one who is at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one at the table? But I am among you as one who serves.(B)
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Philippians 2:5-8
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5 Let the same mind be in you that was[a] in Christ Jesus,(A)
6 who, though he existed in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be grasped,(B)
7 but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
assuming human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a human,(C)
8 he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death—
even death on a cross.(D)
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- 2.5 Or that you have
Matthew 20:26-27
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26 It will not be so among you, but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant,(A) 27 and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave,
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2 Corinthians 11:23
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23 Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.(A)
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