Mark 9:34

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And sitting down, he called the twelve, and he said to them, "If anyone wants to be first, he shall be the last of all and the minister of all."

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But they were thinking within themselves, saying, "It is because we have not brought bread."

loving one another with fraternal charity, surpassing one another in honor:

not so as to dominate by means of the clerical state, but so as to be formed into a flock from the heart.

As it happens, I had written to the church. But Diotrephes, who loves to bear the highest rank among them, would not accept us.