Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;
I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Be kindly affectionate one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;
Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like to children sitting in the markets, and calling to their fellows,