Woe to you Pharisees! for you love the best seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market places.
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market places and calling to their playmates,
“Beware of the scribes, who like to go about in long robes, and love salutations in the market places and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,
love one another with brotherly affection; outdo one another in showing honor.
Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.
I have written something to the church; but Diotrephes, who likes to put himself first, does not acknowledge my authority.