and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave–

谁愿为首，就必作你们的仆人。

谁愿为首，就要作你们的仆人。

谁愿为首，就要作你们的仆人。

谁要居首位，谁就要做大家的奴仆。

谁想在你们中间为首的，就要作你们的奴仆。

无论谁想在你们当中为首，谁就该做你们的奴仆，

誰願為首，就必作你們的僕人。

誰願為首，就要作你們的僕人。

誰願為首，就要作你們的僕人。

誰要居首位，誰就要做大家的奴僕。

誰想在你們中間為首的，就要作你們的奴僕。

你們中間凡想要為首的，就該做你們的奴僕；

無論誰想在你們當中為首，誰就該做你們的奴僕，

欲為首者、當為爾僕、

爾中欲為大者、當為爾役、欲為首者、當為爾僕、

欲為首者、當為爾僕、

孰願為首、當為爾僕。

and whoever wants to be first must be your slave—

And anyone who wants to be first must be your slave.

and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,

and whoever wants to be first among you must become your slave.

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave;

and whoever desires to be first among you shall be your slave;

And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave—

and whosoever would be first among you shall be your servant:

and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave;

And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:

Whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant,

For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.

Not so with you; instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like the one who serves.

Then they came to Capernaum. After Jesus was inside the house he asked them,“ What were you discussing on the way?”But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest.After he sat down, he called the twelve and said to them,“ If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”

Whoever then humbles himself like this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law( though I myself am not under the law) to gain those under the law.To those free from the law I became like one free from the law( though I am not free from God’s law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.To the weak I became weak in order to gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, so that by all means I may save some.I do all these things because of the gospel, so that I can be a participant in it.

You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said,‘ It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Are they servants of Christ?( I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

For I consider myself not at all inferior to those“ super- apostles.”

I am a debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?