But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
Galatians 5:26 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Let us not become vainglorious and self-conceited, competitive and challenging and provoking and irritating to one another, envying and being jealous of one another. American Standard Version (1901) Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another. Common English Bible Let’s not become arrogant, make each other angry, or be jealous of each other. Catholic Public Domain Version Let us not become desirous of empty glory, provoking one another, envying one another. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying on another. |
But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.
If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
You Philippians indeed know that in the early days of the gospel, when I left Macedonia, no church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving except you alone.
In the same way, you who are younger must be subject to the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”