Luke 11:43

KJV1611 – Modern English

Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.

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  • Luke 20:46 : 46 Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the best seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at feasts;
  • Mark 12:38-39 : 38 Then he said to them in his teaching, 'Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces, 39 the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts,
  • Luke 14:7-9 : 7 And he put forth a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best places; saying to them, 8 When you are invited by any man to a wedding, do not sit down in the highest place; lest a more honorable man than you be invited by him; 9 And he who invited you and him come and say to you, Give this man your place; and you begin with shame to take the lowest place. 10 But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place; that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher: then you will have honor in the presence of those who sit at the table with you. 11 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled; and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
  • Prov 16:18 : 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Matt 23:6-7 : 6 and love the best places at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 and greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
  • Rom 12:10 : 10 Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love; in honor giving preference to one another;
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vanity; but in humility let each consider others better than themselves.
  • Jas 2:2-4 : 2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your assembly, and there also comes in a poor man in filthy clothes, 3 and you pay attention to the one wearing fine clothes and say to him, Sit here in a good place, and say to the poor, Stand there, or sit here under my footstool, 4 are you not then partial among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
  • 3 John 1:9 : 9 I wrote to the church: but Diotrephes, who loves to have the preeminence among them, does not receive us.

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    5But all their works they do to be seen by men: they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments,

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    38Then he said to them in his teaching, 'Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces,

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