Cross References

Matthew 20:27

Good News Translation

and if one of you wants to be first, you must be the slave of the others—

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The greatest in the Kingdom of heaven is the one who humbles himself and becomes like this child.

This, however, is not the way it shall be among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest;

like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people.”

But this is not the way it is with you; rather, the greatest one among you must be like the youngest, and the leader must be like the servant.

For I have an obligation to all peoples, to the civilized and to the savage, to the educated and to the ignorant.

I do not think that I am the least bit inferior to those very special so-called “apostles” of yours!

I will be glad to spend all I have, and myself as well, in order to help you. Will you love me less because I love you so much?

For it is not ourselves that we preach; we preach Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.