Luke 22:26 - Easy To Read Version

²⁶ But you must not be like that. The greatest person should become like the youngest person! Leaders should be like servants.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ But this is not to be so with you; on the contrary, let him who is the greatest among you become like the youngest, and him who is the chief and leader like one who serves.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ But ye shall not be so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

Common English Bible

²⁶ But that’s not the way it will be with you. Instead, the greatest among you must become like a person of lower status and the leader like a servant.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ But it must not be so with you. Instead, whoever is greater among you, let him become the lesser. And whoever is the leader, let him become the server.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is the leader, as he that serveth.

Luke 22:26 Cross References

Matthew 20:26

But it should not be that way with you. If one of you wants to become great, then he must serve you like a servant.

Mark 10:43

But it should not be that way with you. If one of you wants to become great, then he must serve you like a servant.

Mark 9:35

The person that wants to save his life will lose it. And every person that gives his life for me and for the Good News {\cf2\super [103]} will save his life forever.

Luke 9:48

Then Jesus said to the followers, “If a person accepts a little child like this in my name, then that person accepts me. And when a person accepts me, that person accepts the One (God) that sent me. The person among you that is the most humble—that person is a great (important) person.”

Romans 12:2

Don’t change yourselves to be like the people of this world. But let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what things are good and pleasing to God and what things are perfect.

1 Peter 5:3

Don’t be like a ruler over those people you are responsible for. But be good examples to those people.

1 Peter 5:5

Young men, I have something to say to you, too. You should accept the authority of the elders. {\cf2\super [32]} All of you should be very humble with each other.