Matthew 23:11

In 9 translations

BSB

The greatest among you shall be your servant.

KJV

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

WEB

But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

ASV

But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.

LSV

And the greater of you will be your servant,

YLT

And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

DBY

But the greatest of you shall be your servant.

DRC

He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.

GNV

But he that is greatest among you, let him be your seruant.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

ὁ δὲ μείζων ὑμῶν ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος.

RP2018

Ὁ δὲ μείζων ὑμῶν ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος.

TR-Boyd

Ὁ δὲ μείζων ὑμῶν ἔσται ὑμῶν διάκονος.

SCR1894

ο δε μειζων υμων εσται υμων διακονος

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Cross-references most cited first

• 1 Corinthians 9:19Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.
• Galatians 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
• John 13:14–15So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.
• Mark 10:43–44But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all.
• Luke 22:26–27But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves?…
• 2 Corinthians 4:5For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.
• Philippians 2:5–8Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in…
• Matthew 20:26–27It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave—
• 2 Corinthians 11:23Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

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