Matthew 20:27

A Conservative Version

and whoever wants be first among you shall be your bondman.

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But ye are not this way. Rather, the greater among you, shall become as the newer, and he who leads, as he who serves.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves are your bondmen through Jesus.

He therefore who will make himself lowly as this child, this man is the greater in the kingdom of the heavens.

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

And I most gladly will spend, and will be spent for your souls. Even though more earnestly loving you, the worse I am loved.

For I reckon to come short in nothing of those, superlative apostles.

But it shall not be so among you. Rather whoever wants to become great among you, he shall be your helper,

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