Matthew 20:27

Revised Version 1885

and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:

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But ye shall not be so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.

For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

I am debtor both to Greeks and to Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister;

even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.