Matthew 23:6

they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

In Context

5'And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

7and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

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Cross References

Proverbs 25:6Honour not thyself before a king, And in the place of the great stand not.

Mark 12:38and he was saying to them in his teaching, 'Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places,

Luke 14:7And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

Romans 12:10in the love of brethren, to one another kindly affectioned: in the honour going before one another;

3 John 1:9I did write to the assembly, but he who is loving the first place among them — Diotrephes — doth not receive us;

Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:2-13

The Scribes and Pharisees Condemned; Cautions against Pride. 1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men:… Read the whole commentary →

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