Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, will find watching. Truly, I say to you that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.

But which of you, having a servant plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, Come, sit down to eat?

For who is greater, he who sits at the table, or he who serves? Is it not he who sits at the table? Yet I am among you as the One who serves.

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.

who, being in the form of God, did not consider clinging, to be equal with God,

And being found comprised as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.