Bible Verses About The Christ Jesus: Example, an

But among you, it must not be like that! On the contrary, whoever among you wants to be a leader must be your servant;

and whoever wants to be first among you must become everyone's slave!

For the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve -- and to give his life as a ransom for many."

But not so with you! On the contrary, let the greater among you become like the younger, and one who rules like one who serves.

For who is greater? The one reclining at the table? or the one who serves? It’s the one reclining at the table, isn’t it? But I myself am among you like one who serves.

You call me ‘Rabbi’ and ‘Lord,’ and you are right, because I am.

Now if I, the Lord and Rabbi, have washed your feet, you also should wash each other’s feet.

For I have set you an example, so that you may do as I have done to you.

that they may all be one. Just as you, Father, are united with me and I with you, I pray that they may be united with us, so that the world may believe that you sent me.

The glory which you have given to me, I have given to them; so that they may be one, just as we are one —

Each of us should please his neighbor and act for his good, thus building him up.

For even the Messiah did not please himself; rather, as the Tanakh says, ‘The insults of those insulting you fell on me.’

Let your attitude toward one another be governed by your being in union with the Messiah Yeshua:

Though he was in the form of God, he did not regard equality with God something to be possessed by force.

On the contrary, he emptied himself, in that he took the form of a slave by becoming like human beings are. And when he appeared as a human being,

he humbled himself still more by becoming obedient even to death — death on a stake as a criminal!

and have put on the new self, which is continually being renewed in fuller and fuller knowledge, closer and closer to the image of its Creator.

The new self allows no room for discriminating between Gentile and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, foreigner, savage, slave, free man; on the contrary, in all, the Messiah is everything.

looking away to the Initiator and Completer of that trusting, Yeshua — who, in exchange for obtaining the joy set before him, endured execution on a stake as a criminal, scorning the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Yes, think about him who endured such hostility against himself from sinners, so that you won’t grow tired or become despondent.

You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in the contest against sin.

On the contrary, following the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in your entire way of life;

since the Tanakh says, “You are to be holy because I am holy.”

Indeed, this is what you were called to; because the Messiah too suffered, on your behalf, leaving an example so that you should follow in his steps.

“He committed no sin, nor was any deceit found on his lips.”