Alas for you, the Pharisees! because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places!
Be taking heed of the Scribes—Who desire to walk about in long robes, and are fond of salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the chief meals,—
I wrote something unto the assembly; but, he who is fond of taking the first place among them—Diotrephes, doth not make us welcome.
Nothing by way of faction, nothing by way of vain-glory,—but, in lowliness of mind, accounting, one another, superior to yourselves,—
In your brotherly love, unto one another, being tenderly affectioned, in honour, unto one another, giving preference;
Before grievous injury, pride! and, before a fall, haughtiness of spirit!
But, unto what, shall I liken this generation? It is, like, unto children, sitting the market-places, who, calling unto the others,