John 13:14 “So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should…”

John 13:14

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

World English Bible

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

American Standard Version

If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.

Geneva Bible 1599

If I then your Lord, and Master, haue washed your feete, ye also ought to wash one an others feete.

Darby Translation

If I therefore, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet;

Young's Literal Translation

if then I did wash your feet — the Lord and the Teacher — ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

Bible in Basic English

If then I, the Lord and the Master, have made your feet clean, it is right for you to make one another's feet clean.

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Cross references

“I then”

Mark 10:43–45 Matthew 20:26–28 2 Corinthians 8:9 Hebrews 12:2 Luke 22:26 Luke 22:27

Mark 10:43–45 · BSB

But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Matthew 20:26–28 · BSB

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

2 Corinthians 8:9 · BSB

For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

Hebrews 12:2 · BSB

Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Luke 22:26 · BSB

But you shall not be like them. Instead, the greatest among you should be like the youngest, and the one who leads like the one who serves.

Luke 22:27 · BSB

For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines? But I am among you as one who serves.

“ye also”

1 Peter 5:5 Acts 20:35 Romans 12:16 Galatians 5:13 1 Peter 4:1 1 Corinthians 8:13

1 Peter 5:5 · BSB

Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Acts 20:35 · BSB

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Romans 12:16 · BSB

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.

Galatians 5:13 · BSB

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

1 Peter 4:1 · BSB

Therefore, since Christ suffered in His body, arm yourselves with the same resolve, because anyone who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

1 Corinthians 8:13 · BSB

Therefore, if what I eat causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause him to stumble.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13You call Me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, because I am.

15I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.

Read John 13