Bible Verses About Servants
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for servants, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,019 votes, led by Mark 10:45. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Servants
Mark 10:4548 votes
For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
Galatians 5:1339 votes
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Mark 9:3537 votes
And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
John 12:2635 votes
If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Matthew 20:2628 votes
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Matthew 23:1127 votes
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant.
Matthew 25:2126 votes
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.
Matthew 6:2425 votes
No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
John 13:1625 votes
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
1 Corinthians 4:123 votes
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Colossians 3:23-2423 votes
And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;
Romans 12:122 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Mark 10:42-4521 votes
But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them.
2 Timothy 2:1521 votes
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Luke 17:7-920 votes
But which of you, having a servant plowing or feeding cattle, will say unto him by and by, when he is come from the field, Go and sit down to meat?
Philippians 2:720 votes
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Proverbs 11:2519 votes
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Luke 22:2718 votes
For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? is not he that sitteth at meat? but I am among you as he that serveth.
John 13:12-1518 votes
So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
1 Corinthians 4:1-217 votes
Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Ephesians 2:1017 votes
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
1 Peter 4:1017 votes
As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Galatians 1:1016 votes
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
1 Peter 2:1616 votes
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Luke 14:2315 votes
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
What does the Bible say about servants?
Readers most often cite Mark 10:45 on the subject of servants. Across 1,019 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Galatians 5:13, Mark 9:35, John 12:26. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.