But when you are invited, go and sit down in the last place, so that when he who invited you comes, he shall say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will have glory in the presence of those who recline with you.

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and acts of compassion,

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

But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another!

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

For where jealousy and strife [exist], there unrest and every evil deed [are].

Likewise, younger [people], subject yourselves to [the] elders. And all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility, because "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."