Luke 11:43 Cross References - Riverside

⁴³ Alas for you, Pharisees! for you love the first seats in the synagogues and greetings in the market-places.

⁶ They love the best couches at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues ⁷ and salutations in the markets and to be called by men Rabbi.

³⁸ In his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes and to have greetings in the market-places ³⁹ and front seats in the synagogues and the best couches at banquets.

⁷ Observing how the guests were choosing the best couches, he gave them an illustration: ⁸ "When you are invited by any one to a wedding, do not recline on the best couch, for some one more honored than you may have been invited, ⁹ and when he who invited you and him comes he may say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you will with shame begin and take the humblest place. ¹⁰ But when you are invited, go and recline in the humblest place, so that when he who has invited you comes he may say, 'Friend, come up higher.' Then you will have honor before all your fellow guests. ¹¹ For every one who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

⁴⁶ "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market-places and front seats in the synagogues and the best couches at dinners,

¹⁰ Have brotherly love toward one another like family affection, in honor preferring one another,

³ doing nothing in a partisan or vainglorious way, but each modestly regarding the others as of more account than himself.

² For if there comes into your assembly a man with gold rings and in fine clothes, and there comes in a poor man in soiled clothes, ³ and you look up to the man who is wearing the fine clothes and say, "Take this good seat," and say to the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit under my footstool," ⁴ are you not making distinctions in your own minds and have you not become judges with wicked thoughts?

⁹ I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who desires to be first among them, does not receive us.