Luke 14:7
And he spoke a parable to those who had been invited, when he observed how they were choosing the first places at table; and he said to them:
Luke 11:43
Alas for you, Pharisees! for you love the chief seat in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
Matthew 23:6
They also love the most honorable places at suppers, and the first seats in the synagogues,
Matthew 13:34
All these things Jesus spoke to the multitudes in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them;
Mark 12:38-39
And he said to them in his teaching: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in robes, and love salutations in the markets,
Luke 20:46
Beware of the scribes, who delight to walk in robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first places at suppers;
Acts 8:18-19
And when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the laying on of the hands of the apostles, he offered them money,
Philippians 2:3
doing nothing in strife and vain glory, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.
3 John 1:9
I wrote to the church; but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, receives us not.