Bible verses about "servanthood" | Worsley

²⁵ but Jesus called them to Him and said, Ye know that the princes of the gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority upon them: ²⁶ it shall not be so among you; but whosoever would be great among you, let him be your minister, and whoever would be chief among you, ²⁷ let him be your servant: ²⁸ as the Son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many.

⁴² But Jesus called them to Him, and said unto them, Ye know that those who rule among the Gentiles, lord it over them, and their grandees exercise authority upon them. ⁴³ But it shall not be so among you: but whoever would be great among you shall be your minister; ⁴⁴ and whoever of you would be first shall be servant of all. ⁴⁵ For the Son of man came not to be ministred unto, but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many.

¹⁶ as free, and yet not using your liberty as a cloke for wickedness, but as the servants of God.

²⁶ If any man would serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: and if any one serve me, him will my Father honour.

¹⁷ And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to our God and Father by Him.

²¹ submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of God.

¹ Now before the feast of the passover, (Jesus knowing that his hour was come, when He should pass out of this world unto the Father, as He had loved his own, who were yet in the world, He loved them unto the end:) ² supper being prepared, (the devil having put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him) Jesus, ³ who knew that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that He came from God, and was going to God, ⁴ riseth from supper, and turneth aside his clothes, and took a towel and tied it about Him; ⁵ and then pouring water into a bason, began to wash the feet of his disciples, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded. ⁶ He cometh therefore to Simon Peter among the rest, who saith unto Him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? ⁷ Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou dost not now understand, but thou shalt know hereafter. ⁸ Peter saith to Him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I do not wash thee, thou hast no part with me. ⁹ Simon Peter saith unto Him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. ¹⁰ Jesus saith to him, He that hath been bathing, hath need only to wash his feet, being then clean all over: and thus ye are clean, but not all of you. ¹¹ For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, Ye are not all clean. ¹² And when He had washed their feet, and taken his clothes about Him, He sat down again, and said to them, Do ye know the intent of what I have been doing to you? ¹³ Ye call me, Master, and Lord; and ye say well; for so I am. ¹⁴ If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. ¹⁵ For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you. ¹⁶ Verily, verily I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord, nor is the messenger greater than he that sent him. ¹⁷ If ye know these things, happy are ye, if ye do them. ¹⁸ I speak not of you all; I know whom I have chosen: but have done it that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me, hath lift up his heel against me. ¹⁹ And I tell you now, before it come, that when it comes to pass ye may believe that I am the Messiah. ²⁰ Verily, verily I say unto you, He that receiveth him, whom I shall send, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth Him that sent me. ²¹ Jesus having said these things was troubled in spirit, and He openly testified and said, Verily, verily I tell you, that one of you will betray me. ²² The disciples therefore looked on one another, doubting of whom He spake. ²³ Now there was one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, sitting next Him. ²⁴ Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him to ask, who it was concerning whom He spake. ²⁵ And he, reclining on the breast of Jesus, saith unto Him, Lord, who is it? ²⁶ Jesus answered, It is he to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it: and He dipped in a sop and gave it to Judas the Iscariot the son of Simon. ²⁷ And after the sop Satan entred into him. Then Jesus saith unto him, What thou dost, do quickly. ²⁸ But none of those that sat at table knew wherefore He said this to him. ²⁹ For some of them thought, because Judas kept the purse, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of against the feast: or that he should give something to the poor. ³⁰ He therefore, when he had taken the sop, immediately went out. And it was night. ³¹ And when he was gone out Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in Him: ³² and if God be glorified in Him, God will glorify Him in Himself, and will soon glorify Him. ³³ Little children, I am to be with you but a little while longer. Ye will wish for me, and as I said to the Jews, "Whither I go ye cannot come", so I now tell you. ³⁴ A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; ---as I have loved you, that ye also love one another: for by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, ³⁵ if ye have mutual love to each other. ³⁶ Simon Peter saith unto Him, Lord, whither art thou going? Jesus answered him, Whither I am going thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me hereafter. ³⁷ Peter saith unto Him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee. ³⁸ Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily verily I tell thee, The cock shall not crow till thou hast denied me thrice.

¹ If therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of the Spirit, ² if any bowels of compassion, compleat ye my joy, be like-minded, maintaining the same love, with your souls united, in attending to the one thing needful. ³ Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind each esteeming others better than themselves. ⁴ Look not every one to his own interests only, but every one also to the concerns of others. ⁵ Let the same mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: ⁶ who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be as God. ⁷ Yet He emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, when made in the likeness of men: ⁸ and being in the human state, He humbled himself, and was obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross. ⁹ Wherefore God hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name above every name: ¹⁰ that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of celestial beings, as well as of those on earth, and of those under the earth; ¹¹ and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. ¹² Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed the gospel, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence; be still working out your own salvation though with fear and trembling: ¹³ for it is God that worketh in you both to will, and to work, out of his own good-pleasure. ¹⁴ Do all things without murmurings and disputings: ¹⁵ that ye may be blameless and inoffensive, the children of God without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as lights in the world, ¹⁶ exhibiting the word of life; to my rejoicing in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain. ¹⁷ But if I be even poured forth as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate with you all. ¹⁸ And for the same cause do ye also rejoice, and congratulate with me. ¹⁹ But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, that I also may be refreshed, by knowing the state of your affairs. ²⁰ For I have no one of a like spirit, who will with a kind of natural affection take care of your affairs. ²¹ For all seek their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus. ²² But ye know the proof I have had of him, that as son with a father he served with me in the gospel. ²³ I hope therefore to send him as soon as I see the issue of my own affairs. ²⁴ But I trust in the Lord, that I shall soon come myself too. ²⁵ However, I thought it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother, and fellow-laborer, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, who ministred to my wants: ²⁶ for he much longed after you all, and was greatly concerned because ye had heard that he was sick. ²⁷ For indeed he was sick and nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him, and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow. ²⁸ I have sent him therefore the more desirously, that when ye see him again ye may rejoice, and I may be the less sorrowful. ²⁹ Receive him therefore in the Lord with all joy, and have such in high esteem: ³⁰ because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life, so that he might fill up what was wanting in your kind offices towards me.

⁷ Yet He emptied himself, assuming the form of a servant, when made in the likeness of men:

²⁷ For which is greater, he that sitteth at table, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at table? but I am among you as one that serveth.