and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—
Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
But you are not to be like that. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who rules like the one who serves.
I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish.
I do not think I am in the least inferior to those “super-apostles.”
So I will very gladly spend for you everything I have and expend myself as well. If I love you more, will you love me less?
For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
