And whoever desires to be first among you, let him 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 as this little child, he is the greater in the kingdom of heaven.
Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, shall 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 shall not be thus; but let the greatest among you, let him be as the youngest, and he who leads as he who serves.
I am a debtor both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to wise and to unwise.
For I consider myself in nothing to have been inferior to the most super apostles.
And I gladly will spend and be expended for your souls; although the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.
For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake.