Woe to you Perushim! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
*But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
*Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn't accept what we say.