Woe to you Pharisees, for you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
“Beware of the Torah scholars, who like to walk around in long robes. They love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and places of honor at feasts.
I wrote something to Messiah’s community, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t welcome us.
Do nothing out of selfishness or conceit, but with humility consider others as more important than yourselves,
Be tenderly devoted to one another in brotherly love; outdo one another in giving honor.
Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It’s like children sitting in the marketplaces who call to one other, saying,