described himself as “the least of the apostles” (1 Cor. 15:9), “the very least of all saints” (Eph. 3:8), and the foremost of sinners (1 Tim. 1:15–16). Five marks of Paul’s humility are identified in 1 Corinthians 4. First, he was content to be a servant: “Let a man regard us in this manner, as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God” (v. 1). The word he used for “servants” is hupēretēs, which refers literally to an under rower, one who rowed in the lower tier of a war galley.