Matthew 20:27 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁷ and whoever would be first among you must 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

Whoever humbles himself like this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 20:26

It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

Matthew 20:28

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

Luke 22:26

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

Romans 1:14

I am under obligation 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 superlative apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:15

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

2 Corinthians 4:5

For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.