Bible verses about "servanthood" | BBE

²⁵ But Jesus said to them, You see that the rulers of the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them. ²⁶ Let it not be so among you: but if anyone has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant; ²⁷ And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place: ²⁸ Even as the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

⁴² And Jesus made them come to him, and said to them, You see that those who are made rulers over the Gentiles are lords over them, and their great ones have authority over them. ⁴³ But it is not so among you: but whoever has a desire to become great among you, let him be your servant: ⁴⁴ And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all. ⁴⁵ For truly the Son of man did not come to have servants, but to be a servant, and to give his life for the salvation of men.

¹⁶ As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

²⁶ If any man is my servant, let him come after me; and where I am, there will my servant be. If any man becomes my servant, my Father will give him honour.

²¹ Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.

¹⁷ And whatever you do, in word or in act, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving praise to God the Father through him.

¹ Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end. ² So while a meal was going on, the Evil One having now put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to be false to him, ³ Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God, ⁴ Got up from table, put off his robe and took a cloth and put it round him. ⁵ Then he put water into a basin and was washing the feet of the disciples and drying them with the cloth which was round him. ⁶ So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you? ⁷ And Jesus, answering, said to him, What I do is not clear to you now, but it will be clear to you in time to come. ⁸ Peter said, I will never let my feet be washed by you, never. Jesus said in answer, If I do not make you clean you have no part with me. ⁹ Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head. ¹⁰ Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you. ¹¹ He had knowledge who was false to him; that is why he said, You are not all clean. ¹² Then, after washing their feet and putting on his robe again, he took his seat and said to them, Do you see what I have done to you? ¹³ You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am. ¹⁴ If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean. ¹⁵ I have given you an example, so that you may do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ Truly I say to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; and he who is sent is not greater than the one who sent him. ¹⁷ If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them. ¹⁸ I am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my true disciples, but things are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who takes bread with me is lifted up against me. ¹⁹ From this time forward, I give you knowledge of things before they come about, so that when they come about you may have belief that I am he. ²⁰ Truly I say to you, He who takes to his heart anyone whom I send, takes me to his heart; and he who so takes me, takes him who sent me. ²¹ When Jesus had said this he was troubled in spirit, and gave witness, saying, Truly I say to you, that one of you will be false to me. ²² Then the eyes of the disciples were turned on one another, in doubt as to whom he had in mind. ²³ There was at table one of his disciples, the one dear to Jesus, resting his head on Jesus' breast. ²⁴ Making a sign to him, Simon Peter said, Who is it he is talking about? ²⁵ He, then, resting his head on Jesus' breast, said to him, Lord, who is it? ²⁶ This was the answer Jesus gave: It is the one to whom I will give this bit of bread after I have put it in the vessel. Then he took the bit of bread, put it into the vessel, and gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. ²⁷ And when Judas took the bread Satan went into him. Then Jesus said to him, Do quickly what you have to do. ²⁸ Now it was not clear to anyone at table why he said this to him. ²⁹ Some were of the opinion that because Judas kept the money-bag Jesus said to him, Get the things we have need of for the feast; or, that he was to give something to the poor. ³⁰ So Judas, having taken the bit of bread, straight away went out: and it was night. ³¹ Then when he had gone out, Jesus said, Now is glory given to the Son of man, and God is given glory in him. ³² If God is given glory in him, God will give him glory in himself, and will give him glory even now. ³³ My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come. ³⁴ I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another. ³⁵ By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another. ³⁶ Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus said in answer, Where I am going you may not come with me now, but you will come later. ³⁷ Peter said to him, Why may I not come with you even now? I will give up my life for you. ³⁸ Jesus said in answer, Will you give up your life for me? Truly I say to you, Before the cry of the cock you will have said three times that you are not my disciple.

¹ If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity, ² Make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in harmony and of one mind; ³ Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself; ⁴ Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others. ⁵ Let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus, ⁶ To whom, though himself in the form of God, it did not seem that to take for oneself was to be like God; ⁷ But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men; ⁸ And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross. ⁹ For this reason God has put him in the highest place and has given to him the name which is greater than every name; ¹⁰ So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld, ¹¹ And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ¹² So then, my loved ones, as you have at all times done what I say, not only when I am present, but now much more when I am not with you, give yourselves to working out your salvation with fear in your hearts; ¹³ For it is God who is the cause of your desires and of your acts, for his good pleasure. ¹⁴ Do all things without protests and arguments; ¹⁵ So that you may be holy and gentle, children of God without sin in a twisted and foolish generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world, ¹⁶ Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect. ¹⁷ And even if I am offered like a drink offering, giving myself for the cause and work of your faith, I am glad and have joy with you all: ¹⁸ And in the same way do you be glad and have a part in my joy. ¹⁹ But I am hoping in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be comforted when I have news of you. ²⁰ For I have no man of like mind who will truly have care for you. ²¹ For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ. ²² But his quality is clear to you; how, as a child is to its father, so he was a help to me in the work of the good news. ²³ Him then I am hoping to send as quickly as possible, when I am able to see how things will go for me: ²⁴ But I have faith in the Lord that I myself will come before long. ²⁵ But it seemed to me necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, who has taken part with me in the work and in the fight, and your servant, sent by you for help in my need; ²⁶ Because his heart was with you all, and he was greatly troubled because you had news that he was ill: ²⁷ For in fact he was ill almost to death: but God had mercy on him; and not only on him but on me, so that I might not have grief on grief. ²⁸ I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow. ²⁹ So take him to your hearts in the Lord with all joy, and give honour to such as he is: ³⁰ Because for the work of Christ he was near to death, putting his life in danger to make your care for me complete.

⁷ But he made himself as nothing, taking the form of a servant, being made like men;

²⁷ For which is greater, the guest who is seated at a meal or the servant who is waiting on him? is it not the guest? but I am among you as a servant.