Mark 10:44

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And whoever would like to be first [in prominence] among you, will be your slave.

Cross References

Matthew 5:40

And if anyone takes you to court in order to take your shirt away from you, let him have your coat also [i.e., if he insists on it].

Mark 10:43

But it is not [to be] this way among you, for whoever would like to become important among you will be your servant.

Mark 10:45

For the Son of man did not come to be served [by others] but to be the servant [of others], and to sacrifice His life as a ransom price for many people [i.e., to purchase them back from Satan].”

Mark 9:35

So, He sat down and called the twelve apostles and said to them, “If anyone [of you] should [try to] be first [in importance] he will [end up] being last, and become the servant of all [the others].”

Philippians 2:7

Instead, He gave up what He had and took on the form [i.e., the nature] of a slave, becoming like a man, [and even] His appearance was found to be like a man’s.