Woe to you Pharisees! You love the seat of honor in synagogues and greetings in marketplaces.
“Be on guard against the scribes, who like to go around in long robes and love greetings in marketplaces, seats of honor in synagogues, and places of honor at banquets.
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to dominate, does not acknowledge us.
Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves,
love one another with mutual affection; anticipate one another in showing honor.
Pride goes before disaster, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
“To what shall I compare this generation? It is like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another,