Matthew 23:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ And they take pleasure in and [thus] love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

Common English Bible

⁶ They love to sit in places of honor at banquets and in the synagogues.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,

Matthew 23:6 Cross References

Matthew 20:21

And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Declare that these two sons of mine will sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”

Romans 12:10

love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.

3 John 1:9

I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not welcome us.