Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
“But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces, who call to their companions
“Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;
In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honour prefer one another,
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first amongst them, doesn’t accept what we say.