Cross references

Matthew 23:11

The greatest among you shall be your servant.

Matthew 23:11 BSB

Matthew 23:11 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Corinthians 9:19 (21 votes) and John 13:14–15 (18 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Genesis 34 to Philippians 2.

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Which verses does Matthew 23:11 point to?

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  1. Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

  2. So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.

  3. For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

  4. But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all.

  5. But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves. For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.

  6. For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

  7. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, …

  8. It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first among you must be your slave—

  9. Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

Which verses point to Matthew 23:11?

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