Bible verses about "servanthood" | Murdock

²⁵ And Jesus called them, and said to them: Ye know that the princes of the nations are their lords, and their great men exercise authority over them. ²⁶ Not so shall it be among you. But whoever among you desireth to be great, let him be to you, a ministerer: ²⁷ and whoever among you desireth to be first, let him be your servant: ²⁸ even as the Son of man came, not to be served, but to serve; and to give his life a ransom for many.

⁴² And Jesus called them, and said to them: Ye know, that they who are accounted chiefs of the nations, are their lords; and their great men have authority over them. ⁴³ But it shall not be so among you: but he that would be great among you, must be a servitor to you. ⁴⁴ And he of you that would be first, must be servant to every one. ⁴⁵ And also the Son of man came, not to be served, but to serve; and to give his life a ransom for many.

¹⁶ as free men, yet not like men who make their freedom a cloak for their wickedness, but as the servants of God.

²⁶ If any one is servant to me, he will come after me; and where I am, there also will my servant be. Him that serveth me, will the Father honor.

¹⁷ And whatever ye do in word or act, do it in the name of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and give thanksgiving through him to God the Father.

²¹ And be submissive one to another, in the love of the Messiah.

¹ And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knew that the hour had come when he should depart from this world unto the Father. And he loved his own people, who were in the world; and he loved them unto the end. ² And when the supper was passed, it had been injected by Satan into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray him. ³ And Jesus, because he knew that the Father had given all things into his hands; and that he came out from the Father, and was going to God; ⁴ arose from the supper, and laid aside his long garments, and took a linen cloth, and wrapped it about his loins; ⁵ and poured water into a wash-basin, and began to wash the feet of his disciples: and he wiped them with the linen cloth with which he had girded his loins. ⁶ And when he came to Simon Cephas, Simon said to him: Dost thou, my Lord, wash my feet for me? ⁷ Jesus answered, and said to him: What I do, thou understandest not now: but hereafter thou wilt understand. ⁸ Simon Cephas said to him: Never shalt thou wash my feet. Jesus said to him: Unless I wash thee, thou hast no part with me. ⁹ Simon Cephas said to him: Then, my Lord, not my feet only shalt thou wash, but also my hands and my head. ¹⁰ Jesus said to him: He that hath bathed, needeth not but to wash his feet; for he is all clean. And ye also are clean; but not all of you. ¹¹ For Jesus knew, who would betray him: therefore he said, Ye are not all clean. ¹² And when he had washed their feet, he resumed his long garments, and reclined. And he said to them: Understand ye what I have done to you? ¹³ Ye call me, Our Rabbi, and Our Lord; and ye speak well; for I am so. ¹⁴ If then I, your Lord and your Rabbi, have washed your feet, how much more ought ye to wash the feet of one another? ¹⁵ For I have given you this example, that ye might do, as I have done to you. ¹⁶ Verily, verily, I say to you, That no servant is greater than his lord; and no legate is greater than he who sent him. ¹⁷ If ye know these things, happy will ye be if ye do them. ¹⁸ Not of you all, do I speak: I know whom I have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lifted his heel against me. ¹⁹ From this time, I tell you, before it occurs, that when it shall occur, ye may know that I am he. ²⁰ Verily, verily, I say to you: He that receiveth him whom I send, receiveth me; and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. ²¹ These things said Jesus, and he was agitated in his spirit; and he testified, and said: Verily, verily, I say to you, That one of you will betray me. ²² And the disciples stared at one another; because they knew not, of whom he spake. ²³ And there was one of his disciples, who was reclining on his bosom, he whom Jesus loved; ²⁴ to him Simon Cephas beckoned, that he should ask him, who it was of whom he spoke. ²⁵ And that disciple fell upon the breast of Jesus, and said to him: My Lord, which is he? ²⁶ Jesus answered and said: He it is, to whom I give the bread when I have dipped it. And Jesus dipped the bread, and gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. ²⁷ And after the bread, then Satan entered into him. And Jesus said to him: What thou doest, do quickly. ²⁸ And no one of those reclining, knew, wherefore he said this to him. ²⁹ For some of them supposed, because the purse was in the hands of Judas, that Jesus expressly charged him to buy something needful for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰ And Judas took the bread at once, and went out of the house. And it was night when he went out. ³¹ And Jesus said: Now is the Son of man glorified; and God is glorified in him. ³² And if God is glorified in him, God will glorify him in himself; and will glorify him speedily. ³³ My children, a little longer I am with you; and ye will seek for me; and, as I said to the Jews, Whither I go ye cannot come, so I now say to you. ³⁴ A new commandment I give to you, that ye be affectionate to each other. As I have loved you, do ye also love one another. ³⁵ By this will every one know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love for each other. ³⁶ Simon Cephas said to him: Our Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered, and said to him: Whither I go, thou canst not now come after me; but thou wilt at last come. ³⁷ Simon Cephas said to him: My Lord, why can I not come after thee? I would lay down my life for thee. ³⁸ Jesus said to him: Wouldst thou lay down thy life for me? Verily, verily, I say to thee, The cock will not crow, until thou hast three times denied me.

¹ If, therefore, ye have consolation in the Messiah, or if a commingling of hearts in love, or if a fellowship of the Spirit, or if compassions and sympathies; ² complete ye my joy, by having one apprehension, and one love, and one soul, and one mind. ³ And do nothing in strife, or in vain glory; but, with lowliness of mind, let each esteem his neighbor as better than himself. ⁴ And let not each be solicitous only for himself, but every one also for his neighbor. ⁵ And think ye so in yourselves, as Jesus the Messiah also thought; ⁶ who, as he was in the likeness of God, deemed it no trespass to be the coequal of God; ⁷ yet divested himself, and assumed the likeness of a servant, and was in the likeness of men, and was found in fashion as a man; ⁸ and he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. ⁹ Wherefore, also, God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is more excellent than all names; ¹⁰ that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of beings in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth; ¹¹ and that every tongue should confess that Jesus the Messiah is the Lord, to the glory of God his Father. ¹² Therefore, my beloved, as ye have at all times obeyed, not only when I was near to you, but now when I am far from you, prosecute the work of your life, more abundantly, with fear and with trembling. ¹³ For God is operating in you, both to purpose, and also to perform that which ye desire. ¹⁴ Do all things without murmuring, and without altercation; ¹⁵ that ye may be perfect and without blemish, as the sincere children of God, who are resident in a perverse and crooked generation; and that ye may appear among them as luminaries in the world; ¹⁶ so that ye may be to them in place of life; for my glory in the day of the Messiah, that I may not have run in vain or toiled for naught. ¹⁷ And if I should be made a libation upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and exult with you all. ¹⁸ And so also do ye rejoice and exult with me. ¹⁹ But I hope in our Lord Jesus, that I shall shortly send Timothy unto you, so that I also may have composure, when informed concerning you. ²⁰ For I have no other one here, who, like my self, will sincerely care for your welfare. ²¹ For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus the Messiah. ²² But ye know the proof of him, that as a son with his father, so he labored with me in the gospel. ²³ Him I hope shortly to send to you, when I shall have seen how things result with me. ²⁴ And I trust in my Lord, that I shall shortly come myself to you. ²⁵ But now, a circumstance urged me to send to you Epaphroditus, the brother who is an assistant and laborer with me, but is your legate and minister to my wants. ²⁶ For he longed to see you all, and was anxious, because he knew ye had heard, that he was sick. ²⁷ And indeed he was sick, nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him: nor was it on him only, but also on me, that I might not have trouble upon trouble. ²⁸ Promptly, therefore, have I sent him to you; so that when ye see him, ye may again be joyful, and I may have a little breathing. ²⁹ Receive him then in the Lord, with all joy; and hold in honor those who are such. ³⁰ For, because of the Messiah's work, he came near to death, and little regarded his life, that he might fulfill what you lacked in the ministration to me.

⁷ yet divested himself, and assumed the likeness of a servant, and was in the likeness of men, and was found in fashion as a man;

²⁷ For, which is the greater, he that reclineth, or he that serveth? Is not he that reclineth? But I am among you, as he that serveth.