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

⁴⁴ And whoever would like to be first [in prominence] among you, will be your slave.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁴ and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁴ And whoever wishes to be most important and first in rank among you must be slave of all.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁴ and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ Whoever wants to be first among you will be the slave of all,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁴ and whoever 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 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].”

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].”

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.