Matthew 20:27 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

²⁷ and whoever wishes to be first among you must be your slave;

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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,

Matthew 20:27 Cross References

Matthew 18:4

Whoever becomes humble like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 20:26

It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant,

Matthew 20:28

just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

Luke 22:26

But not so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like one who serves.

Romans 1:14

I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish

2 Corinthians 11:5

I think that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:15

I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not proclaim ourselves; we proclaim Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus' sake.