Matthew 20:27 - English Majority Text Version 2009

²⁷ And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ And whoever desires to be first among you must be your slave–

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:

Common English Bible

²⁷ Whoever wants to be first among you will be your slave—

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ And whoever will want to be first among you, he shall be your servant,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant.

Matthew 20:27 Cross References

Matthew 18:4

Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 20:26

Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, shall be your servant.

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life [as ]a ransom for many."

Luke 22:26

But you [shall ]not [be] thus; but let the greatest among you, let him be as the youngest, and he who leads as he who serves.

Romans 1:14

I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to [the ]wise and to [the ]unwise.

2 Corinthians 11:5

For I consider [myself] [in] nothing to have been inferior to the most super apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:15

And I gladly will spend and be expended for your souls; although the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake.