Bible Verses about โbeing a servantโ
The Bible contains 18 verses about being a servant across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โGive diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn't need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.โ
โFor we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.โ
โPut on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;โ
โHave this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,โ
โFor you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.โ
โbut emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.โ
โ"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'โ
โwho, existing in the form of God, didn't consider equality with God a thing to be grasped,โ
โFor the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."โ
โMost certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.โ
โIf anyone serves me, let him follow me. Where I am, there will my servant also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.โ
โWhoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be bondservant of all.โ
โBut it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.โ
โJesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the nations lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them.โ
โHere, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.โ
โIt shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.โ
โHe sat down, and called the twelve; and he said to them, "If any man wants to be first, he shall be last of all, and servant of all."โ
โSo let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.โ
