and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave,
and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:
And whoever desires to be first among you must be your slave–
and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:
Whoever wants to be first among you will be your slave—
And whoever will want to be first among you, he shall be your servant,
And he that will be first among you, shall be your servant.
Therefore whoever humbles himself like this little child is greater in the kingdom of heaven.
But it shall not be so among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,
just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
But it must not be so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader must become like one who serves.
I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish;
For I consider myself to be in no way inferior to these “super-apostles.”
So I will most gladly spend and be entirely spent for the sake of your souls, even if the more I love you, the less I am loved.
For what we preach is not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.