2Ch 10:6-7, Pro 15:1, Mar 10:43-44, Phili 2:7-11 | ESV | STEP | Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men , who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive , saying , How do you advise me to answer this people ?

2 Chronicles 10:6-7

6 Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, ^{▼▼Or the elders; also verses 8, 13} who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?” 7 And they said to him, ^b“If you will be good to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

Proverbs 15:1

1 ^cA soft answer turns away wrath,
but ^da harsh word stirs up anger.

Mark 10:43-44

43 But ^eit shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, ^{▼▼Greek diakonos} 44 and whoever would be first among you must be ^gslave ^{▼▼Greek bondservant (doulos)} of all.

Philippians 2:7-11

7 but ⁱemptied himself, by taking the form of a ^jservant, ^{▼▼Greek bondservant} ^lbeing born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by ^mbecoming obedient to the point of death, ⁿeven death on a cross. 9 ^oTherefore ^pGod has ^qhighly exalted him and bestowed on him ^rthe name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus ^severy knee should bow, ^tin heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and ^uevery tongue confess that Jesus Christ is ^vLord, to the glory of God the Father.