Woe to you Pharisees! For you love to have the seat of honor in the synagogues and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces.
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
“But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another,
“Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes and who love respectful greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets.
love one another with mutual affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.
I have written something to the church, but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not welcome us.