“Today your servant [ebed] knows that I have found favor [chen] in your sight, my lord, O king, in that the king has fulfilled [asah] the request of his servant [ebed].” (2Sam 14:22)

“As each one has received a gift [charisma], minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace [charis] of God.” (1Pet 4:10)

“For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant [doulos] is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. (Jn 13:15-16)

“And of His [Jesus the Word] fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.” (Jn 1:16)

“It is enough for a disciple [mathetes] that he be like his teacher, and a servant [doulos] like his master.” (Matt 10:25)

“A disciple is not above his teacher [didaskalos], nor a servant [doulos] above his master.” (Matt 10:24)

“You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.” (2Tim 2:1)

“For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2Cor 4:6)

“For even the Son of Man did not come to be served [diakoneo], but to serve [diakoneo], and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Mk 10:45)

“just as the Son of Man did not come to be served [diakoneo], but to serve [diakoneo], and to give His life a ransom for many.” (Matt 20:28)

“but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant [doulos], and coming in the likeness of men.” (Phil 2:7)

“Who then is a faithful and wise servant [doulos], whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing.” (Matt 24:45-46)

“For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men—as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants [doulos] of God.” (1Pet 2:15-16)

“For if I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ.” (Gal 1:10)

“Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant [doulos] of Christ” (Col 4:12)

“Paul, a bondservant [doulos] of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ” (Tit 1:1)

“James, a bondservant [doulos] of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ” (Jm 1:1)

“Simon Peter, a bondservant [doulos] and apostle of Jesus Christ” (2Pet 1:1)

“Jude, a bondservant [doulos] of Jesus Christ, and brother of James” (Jude 1:1)

“The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant [pais=son] Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go.” (Acts 3:13)

“To you first, God, having raised up His Servant [pais=son] Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.” (Acts 3:26)

“For truly against Your holy Servant [pais] Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathered together” (Acts 4:27)

“by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant [pais] Jesus.” (Acts 4:30)

“Now I say that Jesus Christ has become a servant [diakonos] to the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made to the fathers” (Rom 15:8)

Reading: 2Sam 12-14; Lk 11