Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
But to what shall I compare to this generation? It is like little children sitting in the markets and calling to their playmates,
Beware of the scribes who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at the feasts;
in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, did not receive us.