Bible Verses about “servanthood”

“[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”

“Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.”

“‹A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.›”

“And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, [do] all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.”

“As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”

“‹By this shall all› [men] ‹know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.›”

“¶ Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”

“Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:”

“That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of [things] in heaven, and [things] in earth, and [things] under the earth;”

“And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.”

“And [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

“¶ Do all things without murmurings and disputings:”

“But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:”

“Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:”

“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:”

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.”

“Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, [being] of one accord, of one mind.”

“That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;”

“‹For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.›”

“¶ If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,”

“‹For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.›”

“‹If I then,› [your] ‹Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.›”

“¶ Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”

“Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.”

“‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.›”

“‹Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for› [so] ‹I am.›”

“For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.”

“Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, ‹If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.›”

“So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, ‹Know ye what I have done to you?›”

“Jesus answered and said unto him, ‹What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.›”

“Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God;”

“He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself.”

“After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe [them] with the towel wherewith he was girded.”

“‹If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.›”

“Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also [my] hands and [my] head.”

“Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?”

“And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], to betray him;”

“‹If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will› [my] ‹Father honour.›”

“¶ Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.”

“Jesus saith to him, ‹He that is washed needeth not save to wash› [his] ‹feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.›”

“For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, ‹Ye are not all clean.›”

“¶ ‹I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.›”

“Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all.”

“But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.”

“For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state.”

“But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.”

“Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soon as I shall see how it will go with me.”

“But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.”

“‹Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am› [he].”

“‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.›”