25 Bible Verses about servanthood

And he sat down and called the Twelve in, and said to them, "If anyone wishes to be first, he must be the last of all and the servant of all."

Is he grateful to the slave for doing what he has been ordered to do?

Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? It is for his own master to say whether he succeeds or fails; and he will succeed, for the Master can make him do so.

But he who is greatest among you must be your servant.

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir, made so by God.

In it, by divine appointment, I became a worker, that I might preach among you the message of God in its fulness??26 that secret, hidden from the ages and generations, but now disclosed to those who are consecrated to him,

The slave who knows his master's wishes, but does not get ready or act upon them, will be severely punished.

but laid it aside to take on the nature of a slave and become like other men.

Paul, a slave of Jesus Christ, called as an apostle, set apart to declare God's good news,

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will be rewarded by the Lord for his good conduct.

and a slave of the Lord must not quarrel, but treat everyone kindly; he must be persuasive and unresentful,

"What man among you, if he has a servant ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him when he comes in from the field, 'Come at once and sit down at the table,'

And his master's heart was touched, and he let the slave go and canceled the debt.

Now the faithfulness of Moses in all the house of God was that of a servant, in faithfully repeating what he was told to say;

It was to you that God first sent his servant after he had raised him from the dead, to bless you by making every one of you turn from his wickedness."

and whoever wants to hold the first place among you must be everybody's slave.

If anyone serves me, he must follow me, and wherever I am found, my servant must be also. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.

Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ, and the brother of James, to those who have been called, who are dear to God the Father and have been kept through union with Jesus Christ;

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the uprightness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as privileged as ours;

"Here is my servant whom I have selected, My beloved, who delights my heart! I will endow him with my Spirit, And he will announce a judgment to the heathen.

Now further, what is always demanded of managers is that they can be depended on.

But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the heathen lord it over them, and their great men tyrannize over them.