Mark 10:44 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And whoever would like to be first [in prominence] among you, will be your slave.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And whoever wishes to be most important and first in rank among you must be slave of all.

American Standard Version (1901)

and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.

Common English Bible

Whoever wants to be first among you will be the slave of all,

Catholic Public Domain Version

and whoever will be first among you shall be the servant of all.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And whosoever will be first among you, shall be the servant of all.

Mark 10:44 Cross References

Matthew 5:40

And if anyone takes you to court in order to take your shirt away from you, let him have your coat also [i.e., if he insists on it].

Mark 10:43

But it is not [to be] this way among you, for whoever would like to become important among you will be your servant.

Mark 10:45

For the Son of man did not come to be served [by others] but to be the servant [of others], and to sacrifice His life as a ransom price for many people [i.e., to purchase them back from Satan].”

Mark 9:35

So, He sat down and called the twelve apostles and said to them, “If anyone [of you] should [try to] be first [in importance] he will [end up] being last, and become the servant of all [the others].”

Philippians 2:7

Instead, He gave up what He had and took on the form [i.e., the nature] of a slave, becoming like a man, [and even] His appearance was found to be like a man’s.