Matthew 20:27 Cross References - Worrell

²⁷ but whosoever wishes to become great among you shall be your minister; and whosoever wishes to be first among you shall be your servant;

⁴ Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself as this little child, he is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

³³ And they came to Capernaum. And, when He was in the house, He asked them, "Concerning what were ye reasoning in the way?" ³⁴ But they were silent; for they disputed with one another in the way, who was the greatest. ³⁵ And, sitting down, He called the twelve, and saith to them, "If any one wishes to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."

²⁶ But ye are not so; but let the greater among you become as the younger, and he who leads as he who serves.

³⁴ Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered to my necessities, and to those who were with me. ³⁵ In all things I showed you that, thus laboring, ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."

¹⁴ I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish;

¹⁹ For, being free from all men, I made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more. ²⁰ And, to the Jews, I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under law, as under law (not being myself under law), that I might gain those under law; ²¹ to those without law, as without law (not being without law to God, but under law to Christ), that I might gain those without law. ²² To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some. ²³ And I am doing all things for the Gospel's sake, that I may become a partaker thereof with others.

⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

⁵ For I reckon that I am in no respect behind the most eminent apostles.

²³ Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself) I am more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often; ²⁴ from the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one; ²⁵ thrice I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; thrice I suffered shipwreck; a night and a day I have spent in the deep; ²⁶ in journeyings often, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my countrymen, in perils from the gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; ²⁷ in toil and hardship, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

¹⁵ And I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I to be loved the less?