Even the Son of Man didn’t come to be served, but to serve others and to give his life to set many people free.”
Be like the Son of Man, who didn’t come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life to set people free.”
You know how generous our Lord Jesus Christ was. Even though he was rich, he became poor for your sake, so that because he became poor, you would become rich.
He gave himself for us to set us free from all wrongdoing and purify us, so that we can be his very own people and be eager to do what is good.
I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you should also wash one another’s feet.
They know me just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I give up my life for the sheep.
Even though Jesus was God’s Son, he learned through suffering what it means to obey.
Instead, you were bought with the priceless blood of Christ. He was a perfect lamb without any flaws at all.
He never sinned, but God made him become sin for us, so that in him we could be made right with God.
Christ set us free from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written, “Everyone who is hanged on a pole is under God’s curse.”
and anyone who wants to be first must be a slave to all the others.