⁴³ `Wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

⁴⁶ `Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

³⁸ and he was saying to them in his teaching, `Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places,

³⁹ and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in suppers,

¹⁸ Before destruction `is' pride, And before stumbling -- a haughty spirit.'

⁶ they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

⁷ and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

⁷ And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

⁸ `When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

⁹ and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.

¹⁰ `But, when thou mayest be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called thee may come, he may say to thee, Friend, come up higher; then thou shalt have glory before those reclining with thee;

¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹⁰ in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

³ nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --

² for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

³ and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, `Thou -- sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, `Thou -- stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' --

⁴ ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

⁹ I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them -- Diotrephes -- doth not receive us;