⁴³ Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.

⁴⁶ Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love salutations in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts;

³⁸ And in his teaching he said, Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and `to have' salutations in the marketplaces,

³⁹ and chief seats in the synagogues, and chief places at feasts:

¹⁸ Pride `goeth' before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

⁶ and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

⁷ and the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi.

⁷ And he spake a parable unto those that were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief seats; saying unto them,

⁸ When thou art bidden of any man to a marriage feast, sit not down in the chief seat; lest haply a more honorable man than thou be bidden of him,

⁹ and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, Give this man place; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place.

¹⁰ But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest place; that when he that hath bidden thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have glory in the presence of all that sit at meat with thee.

¹¹ For everyone that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

¹⁰ In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

³ `doing' nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

² For if there come into your synagogue a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, and there come in also a poor man in vile clothing;

³ and ye have regard to him that weareth the fine clothing, and say, Sit thou here in a good place; and ye say to the poor man, Stand thou there, or sit under my footstool;

⁴ Do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?

⁹ I wrote somewhat unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.