“Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the best seats in the congregations and the greetings in the market-places.
Before destruction comes pride, And before a fall a haughty spirit!
“And to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the market-places and calling to their companions,
“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the market-places, and the best seats in the congregations, and the best places at feasts,
In brotherly love, tenderly loving towards one another, in appreciation, giving preference to each other;
doing none at all through selfishness or self-conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be the first among them, does not receive us.