43 Bible Verses about servanthood

So he sat down, called the Twelve, and told them, "If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

He doesn't praise the servant for doing what was commanded, does he?

It will be the same for the lay people as for priests, the same for servants as for their masters, for female servants as for their mistresses, for buyers as for sellers, for lenders as for borrowers, and for creditors as for debtors.

Who are you to criticize someone else's servant? He stands or falls before his own Lord and stand he will, because the Lord makes him stand.

Meanwhile, the attendant to the man of God got up early in the morning and went outside, and there were the elite forces, surrounding the city, accompanied by horses and chariots! So Elisha's attendant cried out to him, "Oh no! Master! What will we do!?"

Under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is overfed,

The person who is greatest among you must be your servant.

So you are no longer a slave but a child, and if you are a child, then you are also an heir because of what God did.

I became its servant as God commissioned me to work for you, so that I may complete my ministry of the word of God.

That servant who knew what his master wanted but didn't prepare himself or do what was wanted will receive a severe beating.

But if the servant, in fact, says, "I love my master, my wife, and my children, and I won't go out a free man,'

Instead, poured out in emptiness, a servant's form did he possess, a mortal man becoming. In human form he chose to be,

From: Paul, a servant of Jesus the Messiah, called to be an apostle and set apart for God's gospel,

"When you acquire a Hebrew servant, he is to serve for six years, and in the seventh he is to go out a free man without paying anything.

Consider this: as the eyes of a servant focus on what his master provides, and as the eyes of a female servant focus on what her mistress provides, so our eyes focus on the LORD our God, until he has mercy on us.

because you know that everyone will receive a reward from the Lord for whatever good he has done, whether he is a slave or free.

A servant of the Lord must not argue. Instead, he must be kind to everyone, teachable, willing to suffer wrong,

Then the LORD asked Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on earth. The man is blameless as well as upright. He fears God and keeps away from evil."

Pay attention to the prayer of your servant and to his request, LORD my God, and listen to the cry and prayer that your servant is praying in your presence today.

Now Abram's wife Sarai had not borne a child for him. She had an Egyptian servant girl whose name was Hagar.

"Suppose a man among you has a servant plowing or watching sheep. Would he say to him when he comes in from the field, "Come at once and have something to eat'?

The master of that servant had compassion and released him, canceling his debt.

Moses was faithful in all God's household as a servant who was to testify to what would be said later,

When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways."

and whoever wants to be first among you must be a slave to everyone,

If anyone serves me, he must follow me. And where I am, there my servant will also be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him."

From: Jude, a servant of Jesus the Messiah, and yet a brother of James. To: Those who have been called, who are loved by God the Father and kept safe by Jesus, the Messiah.

Your servant rejoices, because, Lord, I set my hope on you.

Deal kindly with your servant so I may live and keep your word.

From: Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus, the Messiah. To: Those who have received faith that is as valuable as ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah.

"Here is my Servant whom I have chosen, whom I love, and with whom I am pleased! I will put my Spirit on him, and he will proclaim justice to unbelievers.

Now it is required of servant managers that each one should prove to be trustworthy.

In response, Nun's son Joshua, Moses' attendant and one of his choice men, exclaimed, "My master Moses! Stop them!"

Saul told the young man, "Look, we could go, but what could we bring the man? The bread is gone from our bags, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have with us?"

Saul told him, "Whose son are you, young man?" David said, "The son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem."

After Naaman had gone only a short distance, Gehazi, the attendant to Elisha, the man of God, told himself, "Look how my master has spared this Aramean, Naaman! He declined to take from him what he brought. As the LORD lives, I'm going to run after him and get something from him."

Jonathan spoke to his father Saul favorably about David. "The king shouldn't wrong his servant David because he has not wronged you and because what he has done has been very beneficial for you.

But Jesus called the disciples and said, "You know that the rulers of the unbelievers lord it over them and their superiors act like tyrants over them.

The king approves the wise servant, but he is angry at anyone who acts shamefully.

"Look! My servant will prosper, and he will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.