Matthew 23:6
Good News Translation
They love the best places at feasts and the reserved seats in the synagogues;

New Revised Standard Version
They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues,

Contemporary English Version
They love the best seats at banquets and the front seats in the synagogues.

New American Bible
They love places of honor at banquets, seats of honor in synagogues,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,

Matthew 20:21 Who said to her: What wilt thou? She saith to him: say that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left, in thy kingdom.

Proverbs 25:6,7 Appear not glorious before the king, and stand not in the place of great men. . . .

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, . . .

Luke 11:43 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 20:46,47 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: . . .

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

James 2:1-4 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, with respect of persons. . . .

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 Scribes and Pharisees
5And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes. 6And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues, 7And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.…
Cross References
Mark 12:39
And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues and to have the highest places at suppers:

Luke 11:43
Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the uppermost seats in the synagogues and salutations 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:

Matthew 23:5
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