and whoever desires to be first among y’all will be y’all’s 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 themselves like this little child is the greatest in the Empire of Heaven.
It not so among y’all. Instead whoever desires to become great among y’all must be y’all’s deacon,
just as the Son of Humanity came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
But it is not to be like that with y’all. Rather, the greatest among y’all should become like the youngest, and one leader like a servant.
I am obligated both to Greeks and foreigners, both to the wise and the foolish.
For I consider myself not at all inferior to those “super-apostles.”
I will gladly spend and be spent for y’all’s souls. If I love y’all more, am I to be loved the less?
For it is not ourselves that we preach, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as y’all’s servants for Jesus’s sake.