Quotes about Servanthood

She fell at his feet and said, “My lord, may the blame be on me alone, but please let your servant speak to you; hear the words of your servant.

When the woman came to Saul and saw how distraught he was, she said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed your voice. I took my life in my hands and did as you told me.

and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”

Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”

But Ittai answered the king, “As surely as the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king may be, whether it means life or death, there will your servant be!”

Therefore give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to govern this great people of Yours?”

May Your eyes be open to the pleas of Your servant and of Your people Israel, and may You listen to them whenever they call to You.

let Your eyes be open and Your ears attentive to hear the prayer that I, Your servant, now pray before You day and night for Your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins that we Israelites have committed against You. Both I and my father’s house have sinned.

If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,

Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

“Take him, look after him, and do not let any harm come to him; do for him whatever he says.”

Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and knelt down to make a request of Him.