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Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the respectful greetings in the market places.
“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love respectful greetings in the market places, and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets,
In His teaching He was saying: “Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes, and like respectful greetings in the market places,
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before stumbling.
They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues,
And He began speaking a parable to the invited guests when He noticed how they had been picking out the places of honor at the table, saying to them,
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;
Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;
For if a man comes into your assembly with a gold ring and dressed in fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man in dirty clothes,
I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, does not accept what we say.
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