Bible verses about "servanthood" | MNT

²⁵ but Jesus called them to him and said: "You know how the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. ²⁶ "Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you wishes to become great, shall be your minister, ²⁷ "and whoever wishes to be first among you, shall be your slave; ²⁸ "just as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

⁴² "You know that those who are regarded as rulers among the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make them feel their authority. ⁴³ Not so shall it be among you. On the contrary whoever would become great among you shall be your servant; ⁴⁴ and whoever among you would be first, shall be slave of all, ⁴⁵ and justly, for even the Son of man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life, a ransom for many."

¹⁶ Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God.

²⁶ If any one is ready to serve me, let him follow me; and where I am there shall my servant be also. If any man is ready to serve me, him will my Father honor.

¹⁷ And whatever you do, whether in word of in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God our Father through him.

²¹ Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ.

¹ Now just before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour was come when he should leave this world to go to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, showed forth his love to the end. ² So while supper was proceeding, and the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him, ³ Jesus, knowing that the Father had given everything into his hands, and that he was come from God, ⁴ and was now going to God, rose from supper, laid aside his upper garments, and took a towel and girded himself. ⁵ Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples and to wipe them with the towel with which he had girded himself. ⁶ Then he came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" ⁷ Jesus answered him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will understand it later." ⁸ Peter answered, "No, never shall you wash my feet." "If I do not wash you," said Jesus, "you have no part in me." ⁹ "Lord," said Simon Peter, "not my feet only, but also my hands and my head." ¹⁰ Jesus said: "He who has bathed needs only to have his feet washed, and he is altogether clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." ¹¹ (For he knew who should betray him, for that reason he said that they were not every one of them clean.) ¹² So after he had washed their feet, and had put on his upper garments again, and taken his place, he said to them. ¹³ "Do you understand what I have been doing to you? You call me 'Teacher' and 'Master', and you say well, for such I am. ¹⁴ If then I have washed your feet, I the 'Master' and the 'Teacher', you also ought to wash one another's feet, ¹⁵ for I have given you an example, that you also should do what I have done to you. ¹⁶ In solemn truth I tell you that a slave is not greater than his master, neither is a messenger greater than the one who sends him. ¹⁷ If you know these things, happy are you if you do them. ¹⁸ I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, which says. "He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me. ¹⁹ "From this time forward, I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it is come to pass you may believe who I am. ²⁰ In solemn truth I tell you, he who receives any one that I send is receiving me; and he who receives me is receiving Him who sent me." ²¹ When he had spoken thus, Jesus was deeply moved. He testified and said, "In solemn truth I tell you that one of you will betray me." ²² Then the disciples began looking at one another, wondering which one of them he meant. ²³ There was reclining upon Jesus' breast one of the disciples whom he loved. ²⁴ So Simon Peter beckoned to him, saying, "Ask who it is about whom he is speaking." ²⁵ So that disciples just leaned back against Jesus' breast and said to him, "Lord, who is it?" ²⁶ "It is that one," answered Jesus, " to whom I am going to give a piece of bread, after dipping it." ²⁷ So when he had dipped the bread, he took it and gave it to Judas Iscariot, son of Simon. And after he had received the piece of bread, Satan entered into him. "What you do, do quickly," said Jesus. ²⁸ Now no one at the table understood why he said this to him, ²⁹ for some were thinking, as Judas kept the purse, that Jesus meant to tell him, "Buy the things that we need for the feast," or that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰ When he had taken the piece of bread, Judas went out immediately; and it was night. ³¹ So when he was gone, Jesus said: "Now has the Son of man been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. ³² If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and straightway will he glorify him. ³³ "My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say to you. ³⁴ I give you a new commandment, Love one another! ³⁵ By this shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another." ³⁶ Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" "Where I am going," answered Jesus, "you cannot follow me now; but you shall follow me later." ³⁷ "Why cannot I follow you now, Master?" said Peter. "I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answered him. ³⁸ "Your life you will lay down for me? In solemn truth I tell you, the cock shall not crow before you have three times disowned me."

¹ If then there is any comfort in Christ, if there is any persuasive power in love, if there is any companionship of the Spirit, if there is any tenderness or pity, ² I entreat you to make my joy overflow by living in harmony; possessing the same love, and with one soul united in one purpose. ³ Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself. ⁴ Let each have an eye not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. ⁵ Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, ⁶ who, though from the beginning he had the nature of God, did not reckon equality with God something to be forcibly retained, ⁷ but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men. ⁸ More than this, after he had shone himself in human form, he humbled himself in his obedience even to death; yes, and to death on a cross. ⁹ And for this God highly exalted him, and graciously bestowed upon him the name which is above every name; ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee in heaven, on earth, and under the earth should bend, ¹¹ and every tongue confess that "Jesus Christ is Lord," to the glory of God the Father. ¹² And so, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, with reverence and self-distrust work out your own salvation; ¹³ for it is God who, in his good-will is ever working in you both will and deed. ¹⁴ Do everything without grumbling and disputes, ¹⁵ that you may become blameless and innocent, the sons of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine like stars in a dark world, ¹⁶ holding out a message of life. Thus it will be my boast at the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, or toiled for nothing. ¹⁷ Nay, even if my life is to be poured out as a libation upon the sacrifice and service of you faith, ¹⁸ I will rejoice and congratulate you all; and in the same way you must rejoice and congratulate me. ¹⁹ Now I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may be of good comfort when I learn the news concerning you. ²⁰ For I have no other like him with a genuine concern for your welfare, ²¹ for they are all seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ. ²² And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father. ²³ So I hope to send him, as soon as ever I see how it will go with me; ²⁴ but I trust in the Lord that I also shall come shortly. ²⁵ Epaphroditus, my brother and coworker and fellow soldier, who is your messenger and minister to my needs, I have thought it necessary to send to you; ²⁶ for he has been homesick for you all, and distressed at your having heard of his illness. ²⁷ And indeed he was sick nigh unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also so that I should not have sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ Therefore I have been the more eager to send him, in order that you may rejoice in seeing him again, and that I may have one sorrow less. ²⁹ Receive him then in the Lord with all joy, and hold in honor men like him; ³⁰ for it was through the work of the Lord that he came near to death; for he hazarded his very life to supply what was lacking in the help you sent me.

⁷ but emptied himself of his glory by taking the form of a slave, when he was born in the likeness of men.

²⁷ "For which is greater, he who sits at table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at table? But I am in your midst as one who serves.