²⁶ but ye `are' not so, but he who is greater among you -- let him be as the younger; and he who is leading, as he who is ministering;

⁴⁸ and said to them, `Whoever may receive this child in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth receive Him who sent me, for he who is least among you all -- he shall be great.'

³ neither as exercising lordship over the heritages, but patterns becoming of the flock,

³ and said, `Verily I say to you, if ye may not be turned and become as the children, ye may not enter into the reign of the heavens;

⁴ whoever then may humble himself as this child, he is the greater in the reign of the heavens.

⁵ `And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

⁸ `And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

⁹ and ye may not call `any' your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

¹⁰ nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director -- the Christ.

¹¹ And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

¹² and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

³⁵ and having sat down he called the twelve, and he saith to them, `If any doth will to be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.'

² and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what `is' the will of God -- the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

⁹ I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;

¹⁰ because of this, if I may come, I will cause him to remember his works that he doth, with evil words prating against us; and not content with these, neither doth he himself receive the brethren, and those intending he doth forbid, and out of the assembly he doth cast.