Bible verses about "greatness" | Etheridge

²⁸ So, the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life the redemption for many.

²⁵ And Jeshu called them, and said to them, You know that the princes of the Gentiles are their lords, and their great ones exercise power over them; ²⁶ but it shall not be so among you; but whoever among you willeth to be great, let him be minister to you. ²⁷ And whoever among you willeth to be first, let him be to you the servant. ²⁸ So, the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life the redemption for many.

¹ IN that hour the disciples came near to Jeshu, saying, Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven? ² And Jeshu called a child, and made him stand in the midst of them, ³ and said, Amen I say to you, unless you be converted and become as children, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ Whosoever therefore humbleth himself as this child, he shall be greatest in the kingdom of heaven. ⁵ And whosoever shall receive [such] as [are] like this child in my name, he receiveth me.

¹⁰ Neither be ye called Medabronee : [Guides.] for One is your Guide, - the Meshicha. ¹¹ But he who is great among you, let him be your servitor. ¹² For whosoever will exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever will abase himself shall be exalted.

²⁸ I tell you, that no prophet among those born of women (hath been) greater than Juchanon the Baptizer. Yet the least in the kingdom of Aloha is greater than he.

²⁸ BUT we know that those who love Aloha, in every thing he helpeth them for good; them whom he set before that they might be called.

¹ Though in every tongue of men and of angels I spoke, and had not love, I should be as brass which soundeth, or a cymbal which giveth voice. ² And though there were in me prophecy, and I knew all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though there were in me all faith, as that I could remove the mountain,[Mountains. - WALTON'S edit.] and love were not in me, I should be nothing. ³ And if all I have I make to feed the poor, and I deliver my body to burn, and love be not in me, I profit nothing. ⁴ LOVE is patient and benign; love envieth not; love is not tumultuous, nor inflated; ⁵ it acteth not with unseemliness, nor seeketh its own; it is not angry, nor thoughtful of evil; ⁶ it rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth. ⁷ It endureth every thing, believeth every thing; it hopeth all, endureth all. ⁸ Love never falleth;[Lo nophel.] for prophecies shall be abolished, and tongues be silent, and knowledge be abolished: ⁹ for it is a little of much that we know, and a little of much we prophesy; ¹⁰ but when the perfection shall have come, then shall be abolished that which is little. ¹¹ When I was a child, as a child I spake, and as a child I thought, and as a child I reasoned; but when I had become a man I abolished these things of childhood. ¹² But now as in a mirror we see in a figure;[Or, parable.] but then- the face before the face. Now I know a little of much; but then shall I know even as I am known. ¹³ For these are the three that remain, faith and hope and love; but the greatest of these is love.

²⁰ and from henceforth I live not, but in me liveth Meshiha; and this that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of Aloha, who loved me and gave himself for me.

¹⁵ for he shall be great before the Lord, and wine and strong liquor [Shak'ra.] shall he not drink, and with the Spirit of Holiness shall he be filled, from the womb of his mother.

² And be not likened unto this world, but be changed by the renewing of your minds, that you may discern what is the will of Aloha, good, and acceptable, and perfect.

¹³ for every thing I am empowered through the Meshiha who strengtheneth me.