Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the marketplace.
Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplace, and the first chairs in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts:
I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the pre-eminence among them, doth not receive us.
Let nothing be done through contention, neither by vain glory: but in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:
Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood, with honour preventing one another.
Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.
But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.