Take my yoke and put it on you, and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find rest.

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;

like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life to redeem many people."

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.

You know about Jesus of Nazareth and how God poured out on him the Holy Spirit and power. He went everywhere, doing good and healing all who were under the power of the Devil, for God was with him.

I have shown you in all things that by working hard in this way we must help the weak, remembering the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, 'There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.' "

If you hurt others because of something you eat, then you are no longer acting from love. Do not let the food that you eat ruin the person for whom Christ died!

For Christ did not please himself. Instead, as the scripture says, "The insults which are hurled at you have fallen on me."

And may God, the source of patience and encouragement, enable you to have the same point of view among yourselves by following the example of Christ Jesus,

Just do as I do; I try to please everyone in all that I do, not thinking of my own good, but of the good of all, so that they might be saved.

Imitate me, then, just as I imitate Christ.

Your life must be controlled by love, just as Christ loved us and gave his life for us as a sweet-smelling offering and sacrifice that pleases God.

It was to this that God called you, for Christ himself suffered for you and left you an example, so that you would follow in his steps.

Since Christ suffered physically, you too must strengthen yourselves with the same way of thinking that he had; because whoever suffers physically is no longer involved with sin.

if we say that we remain in union with God, we should live just as Jesus Christ did.