“Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the prominent seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
“Beware of the scribes who desire to walk in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces and the prominent seats in the synagogues and the seats of honor at banquets,
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to put himself first among them, did not accept us.
Let nothing be done out of strife or conceit, but in humility let each esteem the other better than himself.
Be devoted to one another with brotherly love; prefer one another in honor,
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
“But to what shall I liken this generation? It is like children sitting in the markets, calling to their friends,