New Revised Standard Version
He must increase, but I must decrease.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus must become more important, while I become less important.

New American Bible
He must increase; I must decrease.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He must increase: but I must decrease.

He must increase: but I must decrease.

must increase.

Psalm 72:17-19 Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him. . . .

Isaiah 9:7 His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end of peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom; to establish it and strengthen it with judgment and with justice, from henceforth and for ever: the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Isaiah 53:2,3,12 And he shall grow up as a tender plant before him, and as a root out of a thirsty ground: there is no beauty in him, nor comeliness: and we have seen him, and there was no sightliness, that we should be desirous of him: . . .

Daniel 2:34,35,44,45 Thus thou sawest, till a stone was cut out of a mountain without hands: and it struck the statue upon the feet thereof that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. . . .

Matthew 13:31-33 Another parable he proposed unto them, saying: The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field. . . .

Revelation 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet: and there were great voices in heaven, saying: The kingdom of this world is become our Lord's and his Christ's, and he shall reign for ever and ever. Amen.

but.

Acts 13:36,37 For David, when he had served in his generation, according to the will of God, slept: and was laid unto his fathers and saw corruption. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:5 The ministers of him whom you have believed: and to every one as the Lord hath given.

2 Corinthians 3:7-11 Now if the ministration of death, engraven with letters upon stones, was glorious (so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance), which is made void: . . .

Colossians 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he may hold the primacy:

Hebrews 3:2-6 Who is faithful to him that made him, as was also Moses in all his house. . . .