Mark 10:45 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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].”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁵ For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man came not to have service rendered to Him, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for (instead of) many.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁵ For the Son of man also came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

Common English Bible

⁴⁵ for the Human One didn’t come to be served but rather to serve and to give his life to liberate many people.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁵ So, too, the Son of man has not come so that they would minister to him, but so that he would minister and would give his life as a redemption for many."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁵ For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a redemption for many.

Mark 10:45 Cross References

Matthew 20:28

Even so, 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 to purchase many people [i.e., back from Satan].”

Mark 10:44

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

John 10:15

just like the Father knows me [intimately] and I know the Father [that way]. And I [am about to] give up my life for the sheep.

John 13:14

So if I, then, being your Lord and Teacher have washed your feet, you should wash one another’s feet also.

2 Corinthians 5:21

God considered Christ to be sinful on our behalf, even though He never sinned, so that we could be considered right with God through Him.

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the unearned favor of our Lord Jesus Christ, [how] that even though He was rich, He became poor for your sakes, so that through His poverty you people could become [spiritually] rich.

Galatians 3:13

Christ bought us back from the curse [caused by our not obeying all the requirements] of the Law of Moses; He became a curse for us [by dying on the cross], for it is written [Deut. 21:23], “Every one who hangs on a tree [i.e., a cross] is cursed [i.e., cut off from God].”

Titus 2:14

He gave Himself up for us, to buy us back from [enslavement to] all [kinds of] wickedness and to purify for Himself a group of people who belong to Him and who are eager to do good deeds.

Hebrews 5:8

[And] although He was a Son, still He learned obedience from the things He suffered,

1 Peter 1:19

but with [the] precious blood of Christ, who represents an unblemished lamb, without defect.