Matthew 20:26
Modern Translations
New International Version
Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

New Living Translation
But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant,

English Standard Version
It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

Berean Study Bible
It shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

New American Standard Bible
It is not this way among you, but whoever wants to become prominent among you shall be your servant,

NASB 1995
"It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant,

NASB 1977
“It is not so among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant,

Amplified Bible
It is not this way among you, but whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant,

Christian Standard Bible
It must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
It must not be like that among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Contemporary English Version
But don't act like them. If you want to be great, you must be the servant of all the others.

Good News Translation
This, however, is not the way it shall be among you. If one of you wants to be great, you must be the servant of the rest;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But that's not the way it's going to be among you. Whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant.

International Standard Version
That's not the way it should be among you. Instead, whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

NET Bible
It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

New King James Version
Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.

King James 2000 Bible
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

New Heart English Bible
It will not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you must be your servant.

World English Bible
It shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become great among you shall be your servant.

American King James Version
But it shall not be so among you: but whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

American Standard Version
Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister;

A Faithful Version
However, it shall not be this way among you; but whoever would become great among you, let him be your servant;

Darby Bible Translation
It shall not be thus amongst you, but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your servant;

English Revised Version
Not so shall it be among you: but whosoever would become great among you shall be your minister;

Webster's Bible Translation
But it shall not be so among you: but whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But it shall not be so among you: but whosoeuer will be great among you, let him be your seruant.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
It shall not be so among you: But whosoeuer wyll be great among you, let hym be your minister:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
It shal not be so amonge you. But whoso euer wyl be greate amonge you, let him be youre mynister:

Tyndale Bible of 1526
It shall not be so amoge you. But whosoever wyll be greate amoge you let him be youre minister:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
but not so will it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your servant;

Berean Literal Bible
Thus will it not be among you. But whoever wishes to become great among you, he will be your servant;

Young's Literal Translation
but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;

Smith's Literal Translation
But it shall not be so among you; but whoever should wish to be great among you, let him be your attendant;

Literal Emphasis Translation
It will not be so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you, he will be your servant;

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
It shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be the greater among you, let him be your minister:

Catholic Public Domain Version
It shall not be this way among you. But whoever will want to be greater among you, let him be your minister.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“It will not be so among you, but whoever wants to be great among you, let him be one who waits on you.”

Lamsa Bible
Let not this be so among you; but whoever wishes to be great among you, let him be a minister to you;

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
It shall not be so among you. But whoever will be great among you, let him be your minister.

Godbey New Testament
It shall not be so among you; but whosoever may wish to be great among you, shall be your servant;

Haweis New Testament
But thus shall it not be with you. But whosoever will be a great man among you, let him be your servant;

Mace New Testament
but it must not be so among you: on the contrary, whoever would rise among you, let him be your minister.

Weymouth New Testament
Not so shall it be among you; but whoever desires to be great among you shall be your servant,

Worrell New Testament
Not so shall it be among you;

Worsley New Testament
it shall not be so among you; but whosoever would be great among you, let him be your minister, and whoever would be chief among you,
















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