Matthew 20:27 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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

Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 20:26

Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister;

Matthew 20:28

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

Luke 22:26

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.

Romans 1:14

I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

2 Corinthians 11:5

For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

2 Corinthians 12:15

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

2 Corinthians 4:5

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