Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.
“Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts,
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.
Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor giving preference to one another;
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 marketplaces and calling to their companions,