Most assuredly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor a messenger greater than he who sent him.

"If you love Me, keep My commandments.

Remember the word which I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.

"But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do [the] things which I say?

Paul, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, a called apostle, having been separated to the gospel of God

For he that serves Christ in these things is well pleasing to God and approved by men.

For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake.

For do I just now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. For you serve the Lord Christ.

Epaphras greets you, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, always struggling for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and complete in all the will of God.

Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by [the] righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome,

Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, having been sanctified by God the Father, and having been kept in Jesus Christ:

My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.

Jesus said to him, "If I will that he remain till I come, what is [that] to you? You follow Me."

But My servant Caleb, because there was another spirit in him, and he followed Me, I will bring him into the land into which he entered, and his seed shall inherit it.

Surely these men who came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward, who know good and evil, shall not see the land which I swore [to give] to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, for they have not closely followed after Me;

Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

And having summoned the crowd together with His disciples, He said to them, "Whoever is willing to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

Then He said to them all, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children.

And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

These are those who were not defiled with women, for they are virgins. These are those who follow the Lamb wherever He may go. These were redeemed by Jesus from [among] men, firstfruits to God and to the Lamb.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and I will receive you unto Myself; so that where I am, there you may be also.

Father, I desire that those also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, so that they may behold My glory which You gave to Me; because You loved Me before the foundation of the world.

But I shall appear in righteousness before Your face: I shall be satisfied when Your glory appears.

"His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant; you were faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

but we are confident and prefer rather to be away from home from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

For I am hard pressed by the two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better.

Then we who are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

So then comfort one another with these words.

He that has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will manifest Myself to him."

Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and we will make [Our] home with him.

Therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel: I said, Your house and the house of your father shall pass before Me forever: but now the Lord says, Far be it from Me; for I will only honor them that honor Me, and he that despises Me shall be despised.

He that plants a fig tree shall eat the fruits of it; so he that waits on his own master shall be honored.