Mark 12:39

KJV1611 – Modern English

the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts,

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  • Jas 2:2-3 : 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,

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