This, however, is not the way it shall be among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest;

and if one of you wants to be first, you must be the slave of the others---

This, however, is not the way it is among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest;

and if one of you wants to be first, you must be the slave of all.

But this is not the way it is with you; rather, the greatest one among you must be like the youngest, and the leader must be like the servant.

Who is greater, the one who sits down to eat or the one who serves? The one who sits down, of course. But I am among you as one who serves.

I, your Lord and Teacher, have just washed your feet. You, then, should wash one another's feet.

I have set an example for you, so that you will do just what I have done for you.

I am a free man, nobody's slave; but I make myself everybody's slave in order to win as many people as possible.

For it is not ourselves that we preach; we preach Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

Are they Christ's servants? I sound like a madman---but I am a better servant than they are! I have worked much harder, I have been in prison more times, I have been whipped much more, and I have been near death more often.

As for you, my friends, you were called to be free. But do not let this freedom become an excuse for letting your physical desires control you. Instead, let love make you serve one another.

The attitude you should have is the one that Christ Jesus had:

Instead of this, of his own free will he gave up all he had, and took the nature of a servant. He became like a human being and appeared in human likeness.