Matthew 23:6 Cross References - Riverside

⁶ They love the best couches at dinners and the front seats in the synagogues

²¹ He said to her, "What do you wish?" She said to him, "Give the command for these two sons of mine to sit one on your right and one on your left in your kingdom."

³⁸ In his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes and to have greetings in the market-places ³⁹ and front seats in the synagogues and the best couches at banquets.

⁴³ Alas for you, Pharisees! for you love the first seats in the synagogues and greetings in the market-places. ⁴⁴ Alas for you! for you are like unmarked graves. The men who walk over them do not know it." ⁴⁵ One of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, in saying this you treat us roughly too." ⁴⁶ He said, "Alas for you lawyers also! for you burden men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷ Alas for you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, but your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ So you are witnesses and consent to the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹ Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute.' ⁵⁰ So the blood of all the prophets which has been shed from the foundation of the world will be required of this generation — ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah who perished between the altar and the House. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. ⁵² Alas for you lawyers! because you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered and you have prevented those who were entering." ⁵³ After he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon him angrily and cross-question him on many points, ⁵⁴ laying traps to catch something from his mouth.

⁷ Observing how the guests were choosing the best couches, he gave them an illustration: ⁸ "When you are invited by any one to a wedding, do not recline on the best couch, for some one more honored than you may have been invited, ⁹ and when he who invited you and him comes he may say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you will with shame begin and take the humblest place. ¹⁰ But when you are invited, go and recline in the humblest place, so that when he who has invited you comes he may say, 'Friend, come up higher.' Then you will have honor before all your fellow guests. ¹¹ For every one who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted."

⁴⁶ "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market-places and front seats in the synagogues and the best couches at dinners, ⁴⁷ who devour widows' houses and in pretense make long prayers. These will receive unusual condemnation."

¹⁰ Have brotherly love toward one another like family affection, in honor preferring one another,

¹ MY brethren, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with partiality for persons. ² For if there comes into your assembly a man with gold rings and in fine clothes, and there comes in a poor man in soiled clothes, ³ and you look up to the man who is wearing the fine clothes and say, "Take this good seat," and say to the poor man, "Stand there," or "Sit under my footstool," ⁴ are you not making distinctions in your own minds and have you not become judges with wicked thoughts?

⁹ I wrote something to the church; but Diotrephes, who desires to be first among them, does not receive us.