Bible Verses About Humility & Servanthood
Jesus, though Lord of all, came not to be served but to serve and to give his life. He calls us to clothe ourselves in humility and to count others more significant than ourselves. These verses lead you down the lowly road that God exalts.
Do not act out of rivalry or out of a craving for empty glory. Instead, be humble, and regard each other as standing above yourselves.
The Son of Man himself came, not so that others would serve him, but to serve them and to give his life as the ransom price for many.”
You were called to be free, brothers and sisters. Only do not let your freedom become an opening for the flesh. Instead, through love, be slaves to one another.
Each of you should care not just about your own concerns but about the concerns of others as well.
With you it must be different. If any of you wants to become great, that one must serve the rest of you.
So if I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, then you too have a duty to wash each other’s feet.
Humble yourselves, then, under God’s powerful hand, so that he may raise you up when the time is right.
In the same way, you who are younger, submit to the elders. And all of you, tie humility on like a garment in your dealings with one another, because “God stands against the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”
Among yourselves, think in the way that Christ Jesus also thought,