and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

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  • WEB World English Bible

    and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

  • TYNDALE Tyndale New Testament (1534)

    and love to sit vppermooste at feastes and to have the chefe seates in the synagoges

  • GNV Geneva Bible (1599)

    And loue the chiefe place at feastes, and to haue the chiefe seates in the assemblies,

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Cross-references (9)

Passages linked to Matthew 23:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 3 John 1:9 I wrote to the assembly, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first among them, doesn’t accept what we say.
  • Mark 12:38-39 In his teaching he said to them, “Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes, and to get greetings in the marketplaces, and the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts:
  • Luke 11:43-54 Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.” One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.” He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens. Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs. Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute, that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.” As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him; lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.
  • Proverbs 25:6-7 Don’t exalt yourself in the presence of the king, or claim a place among great men; for it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,” than that you should be put lower in the presence of the prince, whom your eyes have seen.
  • Luke 14:7-11 He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them, “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him, and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
  • James 2:1-4 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in, and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing and say, “Sit here in a good place;” and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool” haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
  • Luke 20:46-47 “Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts; who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”
  • Matthew 20:21 He said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Command that these, my two sons, may sit, one on your right hand, and one on your left hand, in your Kingdom.”
  • Romans 12:10 In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain When assemblies and Councils are gathered together.

When assemblies and Councils are gathered together.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain We have the same applied to the scribes, Mar…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And love the uppermost rooms at feasts,.... Or the…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The uppermost rooms at feasts - The word “rooms,”…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain And love the uppermost rooms at feasts--The word "room"…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. And love the uppermost — Our Lord here…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. the uppermost rooms] i. e. “the most honourable…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) The uppermost rooms.—Better, the first places, the word…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The uppermost rooms; than : primos recubitus; chief place.…
B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 6. Love the uppermost rooms at feasts. Rather, “seats.”…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Connecting Statement:
Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 23:6 The seats of honor in the synagogues were…

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