servant
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5For this understanding in you was also in Christ Jesus: 6who, though he was in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be seized. 7Instead, he emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men, and accepting the state of a man.
26But it must not be so with you. Instead, whoever is greater among you, let him become the lesser. And whoever is the leader, let him become the server.
45So, too, the Son of man has not come so that they would minister to him, but so that he would minister and would give his life as a redemption for many.”
13For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.
35And taking a child, he set him in their midst. And when he had embraced him, he said to them:
1The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the meek, so as to heal the contrite of heart, to preach leniency to captives and release to the confined, 2and so to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vindication of our God: to console all who are mourning,
11Whoever is greater among you shall be your minister. 12But whoever has exalted himself, shall be humbled. And whoever has humbled himself, shall be exalted.
26It shall not be this way among you. But whoever will want to be greater among you, let him be your minister.
26If anyone serves me, let him follow me. And where I am, there too my minister shall be. If anyone has served me, my Father will honor him.
11in solicitude, not lazy; in spirit, fervent; serving the Lord;
24For you know that you will receive from the Lord the repayment of an inheritance. Serve Christ the Lord.
15I will no longer call you servants, for the servant does not know what his Lord is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything whatsoever that I have heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you. And I have appointed you, so that you may go forth and bear fruit, and so that your fruit may last. Then whatever you have asked of the Father in my name, he shall give to you.