Lexicon :: Strong's G1249 - diakonos

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

“Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him up hand and foot,[fn] and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

“The greatest among you will be your servant.

Sitting down, he called the Twelve and said to them, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be last and servant of all.”

“But it is not so among you. On the contrary, whoever wants to become great among you will be your servant,

“Do whatever he tells you,” his mother told the servants.

When the headwaiter tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from ​— ​though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

“If anyone serves me, he must follow me. Where I am, there my servant also will be. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

For it is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For it is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.

For I say that Christ became a servant of the circumcised[fn] on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises to the fathers,

I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant[fn] of the church in Cenchreae.

What then is Apollos? What is Paul? They are servants through whom you believed, and each has the role the Lord has given.

He has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Instead, as God’s ministers, we commend ourselves in everything: by great endurance, by afflictions, by hardships, by difficulties,

So it is no great surprise if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. Their end will be according to their works.

Are they servants of Christ? I’m talking like a madman ​— ​I’m a better one: with far more labors, many more imprisonments, far worse beatings, many times near death.

But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ, is Christ then a promoter[fn] of sin? Absolutely not!

I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of his power.

Tychicus, our dearly loved brother and faithful servant[fn] in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me so that you may be informed.

Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus:

To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are in Philippi, including the overseers and deacons.

You learned this from Epaphras, our dearly loved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your[fn] behalf,

if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.

I have become its servant, according to God’s commission that was given to me for you, to make the word of God fully known,

Tychicus, our dearly loved brother, faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord, will tell you all the news about me.

Deacons, likewise, should be worthy of respect, not hypocritical, not drinking a lot of wine, not greedy for money,

Deacons are to be husbands of one wife, managing their children and their own households competently.

If you point these things out to the brothers and sisters, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of the faith and the good teaching that you have followed.