saying, "My servant, sir, is lying sick with paralysis at my house, in great distress."

But the captain answered, "I am not a suitable person, sir, to have you come under my roof, but simply say the word, and my servant will be cured.

Then Jesus said to the captain, "Go! You shall find it just as you believe!" And the servant was immediately cured.

"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.

It is not to be so among you, but whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

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

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."

but it is not to be so among you. Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

"He has helped his servant Israel, Remembering his mercy,

And he has produced a mighty Savior for us In the house of his servant David.

That is why I did not think I was fit to come to you. But simply say the word, and have my servant cured.

No servant can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or he will stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money!"

"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,'

But you are not to do so, but whoever is greatest among you must be like the youngest, and the leader like a servant.

For which is greater, the man at the table, or the servant who waits on him? Is not the man at the table? Yet I am like a servant among you.

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.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has done this honor to his servant Jesus, whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to let him go.

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."

For they have assembled here in this city against your holy servant Jesus, whom you had consecrated??erod and Pontius Pilate, with the heathen and the peoples of Israel,

when you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are done by the power of your holy servant Jesus."

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.

On the contrary, as a servant of God I try in every way to commend myself to them, through my great endurance in troubles, difficulties, hardships,

and really came to know it, in the form in which Epaphras, my dear fellow-slave, taught it to you. He is my faithful representative as a servant of Christ,

Our dear brother Tychicus, my faithful helper and fellow-servant in the Lord's work, will tell you all about me.

and I sent my brother Timothy, a servant of God in preaching the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you in your faith

If you point this out to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, living on the principles of the faith and the excellent teaching you have had.

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;