Now in the meantime, as an innumerable crowd had gathered together so that they were stepping on one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Then Jesus said to them, "Look out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."

Then He charged them, saying, "Look out, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

whom you also should guard against, for he has greatly resisted our words.

Woe to you Pharisees! Because you love the first seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the places of honor, saying to them:

Pride brings a man low, but the Lord upholds the humble-minded with honor.

But all their works they do in order to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad and they enlarge the borders of their garments.

and greetings in the marketplaces, and to be called by men, 'Rabbi, Rabbi.'

Then He said to them in His teaching, "Take heed of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and [like] greetings in the marketplaces,

and the first seats in the synagogues, and the first couches at the suppers;

Be warmly affectionate to one another with brotherly love, in honor preferring one another;

doing nothing according to selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility, regarding one another as being better than yourselves.

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

I wrote to the church, but Diotrephes, who loves the preeminence over them, does not receive us.