“If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.”
King James Version (KJV)
13:14 Ye ought also to wash one another's feet - And why did they not? Why do we not read of any one apostle ever washing the feet of any other? Because they understood the Lord better. They knew he never designed that this should be literally taken. He designed to teach them the great lesson of humble love, as well as to confer inward purity upon them. And hereby he teaches us, In every possible way to assist each other in attaining that purity; To wash each other's feet, by performing all sorts of good offices to each other, even those of the lowest kind, when opportunity serves, and the necessity of any calls for them.
Joh 13:14 If I then, [your] Lord and Master have wash your feet. Ye ought to follow the example of humility, self-sacrifice, and service to others, that your Lord sets you. Ye also ought to wash one another's feet. Instead of seeking the pre-eminence, disputing concerning the seats of honor, and shrinking from humble service to each other, ye should follow my example.
If I then your Lord and Master haue washed your feete, yee also ought to wash one anothers feete.
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
"If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
- American Standard Version (1901)
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.
- Basic English Bible
If I therefore, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet;
- Darby Bible
If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
- Webster's Bible
If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet.
- Weymouth Bible
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
- World English Bible
Therfor if Y, lord and maistir, haue waischun youre feet, and ye schulen waische oon anothers feet;
- Wycliffe Bible
if then I did wash your feet -- the Lord and the Teacher -- ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
- Youngs Literal Bible