43 Alas for you, the Pharisees! because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market–places!
Luke 11:43 Cross References - Rotherham
Proverbs 16:18
18 Before grievous injury, pride! and, before a fall, haughtiness of spirit!
Matthew 23:6-7
Mark 12:38-39
Luke 14:7-11
7 And he went on to speak, unto the invited, a parable,––observing how, the first couches, they were choosing; saying unto them––
8 Whensoever thou hast been invited by anyone unto a marriage feast, do not recline on the first couch; lest once, a more honourable than thou, have been invited by him,
9 and he that invited both thee and him should come, and say unto thee––Give, unto this one, place! and, then, thou shouldst begin, with shame, the last place, to occupy.
10 But, whensoever thou hast been invited, pass on and fall back into the last place, that, whensoever he that hath invited thee shall come, he may say unto thee––Friend! come close up, higher. Then, shalt thou have honour before all who are reclining together with thee.
11 Because, everyone who exalteth himself, shall be abased; and, he that abaseth himself, shall be exalted?
Luke 20:46
46 Be taking heed of the Scribes––Who desire to walk about in long robes, and are fond of salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the chief meals,––
Romans 12:10
10 In your brotherly love, unto one another, being tenderly affectioned, in honour, unto one another, giving preference;
Philippians 2:3
3 Nothing by way of faction, nothing by way of vain–glory,––but, in lowliness of mind, accounting, one another, superior to yourselves,––
James 2:2-4
2 For, if there enter into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings in gay clothing, and there enter a destitute man also, in soiled clothing,––
3 And ye eye him that hath on the gay clothing, and say, Thou, be sitting here, pleasantly,––and, unto the destitute man, say––Thou, stand, or sit there under my footstool,
4 Would ye not have been led to make distinctions among yourselves, and have become judges with wicked reasonings?
3 John 1:9
9 I wrote something unto the assembly; but, he who is fond of taking the first place among them––Diotrephes, doth not make us welcome.