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2 Corinthians 4 5
For we are not proclaiming ourselves but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’s sake.
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Luke 22:26
It is not to be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever is greatest among you should become like the youngest, and whoever leads, like the one serving.
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Mark 9:33-35
They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them,“ What were you arguing about on the way?”But they were silent, because on the way they had been arguing with one another about who was the greatest.Sitting down, he called the Twelve and said to them,“ If anyone wants to be first, he must be last and servant of all.”
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Matthew 18:4
Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child— this one is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
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1 Corinthians 9 19-1 Corinthians 9 23
Although I am free from all and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win Jews; to those under the law, like one under the law— though I myself am not under the law— to win those under the law.To those who are without the law, like one without the law— though I am not without God’s law but under the law of Christ— to win those without the law.To the weak I became weak, in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that I may by every possible means save some.Now I do all this because of the gospel, so that I may share in the blessings.
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Acts 20:34-35
You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who are with me.In every way I’ve shown you that it is necessary to help the weak by laboring like this and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, because he said,‘ It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
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2 Corinthians 11 23-2 Corinthians 11 27
Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman— I’m a better one: with far more labors, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death.Five times I received the forty lashes minus one from the Jews.Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the open sea.On frequent journeys, I faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, and dangers among false brothers;toil and hardship, many sleepless nights, hunger and thirst, often without food, cold, and without clothing.
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2 Corinthians 11 5
Now I consider myself in no way inferior to those“ super-apostles.”
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Romans 1:14
I am obligated both to Greeks and barbarians, both to the wise and the foolish.
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2 Corinthians 12 15
I will most gladly spend and be spent for you. If I love you more, am I to be loved less?