5. Everything they do, they do to be noticed by others. They make extra-wide prayer bands for their arms and long tassels for their clothes.
6. They love to sit in places of honor at banquets and in the synagogues.
7. They love to be greeted with honor in the markets and to be addressed as ‘Rabbi.’
8. “But you shouldn’t be called Rabbi, because you have one teacher, and all of you are brothers and sisters.
9. Don’t call anybody on earth your father, because you have one Father, who is heavenly.
10. Don’t be called teacher, because Christ is your one teacher.
11. But the one who is greatest among you will be your servant.
12. All who lift themselves up will be brought low. But all who make themselves low will be lifted up.
13. “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. You don’t enter yourselves, and you won’t allow those who want to enter to do so.
15. “How terrible it will be for you, legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You travel over sea and land to make one convert. But when they’ve been converted, they become twice the child of hell you are.