Luke 11:43
Good News Translation
"How terrible for you Pharisees! You love the reserved seats in the synagogues and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces.

New Revised Standard Version
Woe to you Pharisees! For you love to have the seat of honor in the synagogues and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces.

Contemporary English Version
You Pharisees are in for trouble! You love the front seats in the synagogues, and you like to be greeted with honor in the market.

New American Bible
Woe to you Pharisees! You love the seat of honor in synagogues and greetings in marketplaces.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplace.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplace.

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Luke 14:7-11 And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them: . . .

Luke 20:46 Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts:

Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction: and the spirit is lifted up before a fall.

Matthew 23:6 And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,

Mark 12:38,39 And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace, . . .

Romans 12:10 Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood: with honour preventing one another.

Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:

James 2:2-4 For if there shall come into your assembly a man having a golden ring, in fine apparel; and there shall come in also a poor man in mean attire: . . .

3 John 1:9 I had written perhaps to the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, doth not receive us.

Context
Woes to Religious Leaders
42But woe to you, Pharisees, because you tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over judgment and the charity of God. Now these things you ought to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 43Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplace. 44Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:16
But whereunto shall I esteem this generation to be like? It is like to children sitting in the market place.

Matthew 23:6
And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,

Matthew 23:7
And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.

Mark 12:38
And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace,

Luke 14:7
And he spoke a parable also to them that were invited, marking how they chose the first seats at the table, saying to them:

Luke 20:46
Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts:

Luke 11:42
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