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Matthew 20:27
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Matthew 20:27
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27 and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—
Matthew 20:27
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Matthew 20:27
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27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
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Luke 22:26
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Luke 22:26
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26 But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest,(A) and the one who rules like the one who serves.(B)
Luke 22:26
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Luke 22:26
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26 But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.
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Mark 9:33-35
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Mark 9:33-35
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33 They came to Capernaum.(A) When he was in the house,(B) he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the road?” 34 But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who was the greatest.(C)
35 Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”(D)
Mark 9:33-35
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Mark 9:33-35
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33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who should be the greatest.
35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
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2 Corinthians 4:5
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2 Corinthians 4:5
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5 For what we preach is not ourselves,(A) but Jesus Christ as Lord,(B) and ourselves as your servants(C) for Jesus’ sake.
2 Corinthians 4:5
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2 Corinthians 4:5
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5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
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Matthew 18:4
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Matthew 18:4
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4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.(A)
Matthew 18:4
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Matthew 18:4
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4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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1 Corinthians 9:19-23
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1 Corinthians 9:19-23
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Paul’s Use of His Freedom
19 Though I am free(A) and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone,(B) to win as many as possible.(C) 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews.(D) To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law),(E) so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law(F) (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law),(G) so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak.(H) I have become all things to all people(I) so that by all possible means I might save some.(J) 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
1 Corinthians 9:19-23
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1 Corinthians 9:19-23
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19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;
21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you.
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Acts 20:34-35
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Acts 20:34-35
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34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine have supplied my own needs and the needs of my companions.(A) 35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
Acts 20:34-35
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Acts 20:34-35
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34 Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.
35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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2 Corinthians 12:15
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2 Corinthians 12:15
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15 So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well.(A) If I love you more,(B) will you love me less?
2 Corinthians 12:15
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2 Corinthians 12:15
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15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
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2 Corinthians 11:23-27
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2 Corinthians 11:23-27
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23 Are they servants of Christ?(A) (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more. I have worked much harder,(B) been in prison more frequently,(C) been flogged more severely,(D) and been exposed to death again and again.(E) 24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes(F) minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods,(G) once I was pelted with stones,(H) three times I was shipwrecked,(I) I spent a night and a day in the open sea, 26 I have been constantly on the move. I have been in danger from rivers, in danger from bandits, in danger from my fellow Jews,(J) in danger from Gentiles; in danger in the city,(K) in danger in the country, in danger at sea; and in danger from false believers.(L) 27 I have labored and toiled(M) and have often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food;(N) I have been cold and naked.
2 Corinthians 11:23-27
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2 Corinthians 11:23-27
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23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
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2 Corinthians 11:5
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2 Corinthians 11:5
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Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 11:5 Or to the most eminent apostles
2 Corinthians 11:5
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2 Corinthians 11:5
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5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.
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Romans 1:14
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Romans 1:14
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14 I am obligated(A) both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.
Romans 1:14
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Romans 1:14
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14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to the wise, and to the unwise.
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