43 Bible Verses about servanthood
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Sitting down, He called the Twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
people and priest alike,
servant and master,
female servant and mistress,
buyer and seller,
lender and borrower,
creditor and debtor.
Who are you to criticize another’s household slave? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand. For the Lord is able to make him stand.
When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”
a servant when he becomes king,
a fool when he is stuffed with food,
The greatest among you will be your servant.
I have become its servant, according to God’s administration that was given to me for you, to make God’s message fully known,
And that slave who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.
“But if the slave declares: ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I do not want to leave as a free man,’
Instead He emptied Himself
by assuming the form of a slave,
taking on the likeness of men.
And when He had come as a man
in His external form,
Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called as an apostle and singled out for God’s good news—
“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man without paying anything.
Like a servant’s eyes on his master’s hand,
like a servant girl’s eyes on her mistress’s hand,
so our eyes are on the Lord our God
until He shows us favor.
knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.
The Lord’s slave must not quarrel, but must be gentle to everyone, able to teach, and patient,
Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”
Listen to Your servant’s prayer and his petition,
Lord my God,
so that You may hear the cry and the prayer
that Your servant prays before You today,
Abram’s wife Sarai had not borne any children for him, but she owned an Egyptian slave named Hagar.
“Which one of you having a slave tending sheep or plowing will say to him when he comes in from the field, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?
Moses was faithful as a servant in all God’s household, as a testimony to what would be said in the future.
God raised up His Servant and sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”
If anyone serves Me, he must follow Me. Where I am, there My servant also will be. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.
Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and a brother of James:
To those who are the called, loved by God the Father and kept by Jesus Christ.
ג GimelDeal generously with Your servant
so that I might live;
then I will keep Your word.
Simeon Peter, a slave and an apostle of Jesus Christ:
To those who have obtained a faith of equal privilege with ours through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ.
Here is My Servant whom I have chosen,
My beloved in whom My soul delights;
I will put My Spirit on Him,
and He will proclaim justice to the nations.
In this regard, it is expected of managers that each one of them be found faithful.
Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth, responded, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
“Suppose we do go,” Saul said to his attendant, “what do we take the man? The food from our packs is gone, and there’s no gift to take to the man of God. What do we have?”
Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?”
“The son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David answered.
Gehazi, the attendant of Elisha the man of God, thought: My master has let this Aramean Naaman off lightly by not accepting from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.
Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul. He said to him: “The king should not sin against his servant David. He hasn’t sinned against you; in fact, his actions have been a great advantage to you.
But Jesus called them over and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles dominate them, and the men of high position exercise power over them.
A king favors a wise servant,
but his anger falls on a disgraceful one.
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See, My Servant will act wisely;
He will be raised and lifted up and greatly exalted.
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Exodus 21:2-6“When you buy a Hebrew slave, he is to serve for six years; then in the seventh he is to leave as a free man