Luke 11:43 - Modern King James Version Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and [you love] to be greeted and bowed down to in the [public] marketplaces. American Standard Version (1901) Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces. Common English Bible “How terrible for you Pharisees! You love the most prominent seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the first seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplace. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the marketplace. |
But to what shall I compare to this generation? It is like little children sitting in the markets and calling to their playmates,
Beware of the scribes who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at the feasts;
in brotherly love to one another, loving fervently, having led one another in honor.
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than themselves.
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, did not receive us.