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Matthew 23:6

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And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

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  1. Matthew 23:4

    For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

  2. Matthew 23:5

    But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

  3. Matthew 23:7

    And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

  4. Matthew 23:8

    But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren.

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