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got up from supper, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself.(A)

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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.(A)

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who, though he existed in the form of God,
    did not regard equality with God
    as something to be grasped,(A)
but emptied himself,
    taking the form of a slave,
    assuming human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a human,(B)
    he humbled himself
    and became obedient to the point of death—
    even death on a cross.(C)

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For you know the generous act[a] of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.9 Gk the grace or gift

37 Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them.(A)

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“Who among you would say to your slave who has just come in from plowing or tending sheep in the field, ‘Come here at once and take your place at the table’?

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