And sitting down, he called the twelve, and saith to them: If any man desire to be first, he shall be the last of all, and the minister of all.
I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, doth not receive us.
Neither as lording it over the clergy, but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.
Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood, with honour preventing one another.
But they thought within themselves, saying: Because we have taken no bread.