Luke 22:26
Good News Translation
But this is not the way it is with you; rather, the greatest one among you must be like the youngest, and the leader must be like the servant.

New Revised Standard Version
But not so with you; rather the greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader like one who serves.

Contemporary English Version
But don't be like them. The most important one of you should be like the least important, and your leader should be like a servant.

New American Bible
but among you it shall not be so. Rather, let the greatest among you be as the youngest, and the leader as the servant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger: and he that is the leader, as he that serveth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger: and he that is the leader, as he that serveth.

Luke 9:48 And said to them: Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me; and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me. For he that is the lesser among you all, he is the greater.

Matthew 18:3-5 And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. . . .

Matthew 23:8-12 But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you are brethren. . . .

Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God.

1 Peter 5:3 Neither as lording it over the clergy but being made a pattern of the flock from the heart.

3 John 1:9,10 I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, doth not receive us. . . .

Context
Who is the Greatest?
25And he said to them: The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them; and they that have power over them are called beneficent. 26But you not so: but he that is the greater among you, let him become as the younger: and he that is the leader, as he that serveth. 27For which is greater, he that sitteth at table or he that serveth? Is not he that sitteth at table? But I am in the midst of you, as he that serveth.…
Cross References
Matthew 20:26
It shall not be so among you: but whosoever is the greater among you, let him be your minister.

Matthew 23:11
He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.

Mark 9:35
And sitting down, he called the twelve and saith to them: If any man desire to be first, he shall be the last of all and be minister of all.

Mark 10:43
But it is not so among you: but whosoever will be greater shall be your minister.

Luke 9:48
And said to them: Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me; and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me. For he that is the lesser among you all, he is the greater.

1 Peter 5:5
In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

Luke 22:25
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