But to what shall I compare this generation? It is similar to children who sit in the marketplaces and call to their playmates,
Luke 11:43 - English Majority Text Version Woe to you Pharisees! Because you love the first seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. Higit pang mga bersyonKing 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 this generation? It is similar to children who sit in the marketplaces and call to their playmates,
Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk about in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at dinners,
Be warmly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another;
doing nothing according to selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility, regarding one another as being better than yourselves.
I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves the preeminence over them, does not receive us.