LUKE 14:7-11- NOW HE TOLD A PARABLE TO THOSE WHO WERE INVITED, WHEN HE NOTICED HOW THEY CHOSE THE PLACES OF HONOR, SAYING TO THEM, WHEN YOU ARE INVITED BY SOMEONE TO A WEDDING FEAST, DO NOT SIT DOWN IN A PLACE OF HONOR, LEST SOMEONE MORE DISTINGUISHED THAN YOU BE INVITED BY HIM, AND HE WHO INVITED YOU BOTH WILL COME AND SAY TO YOU, GIVE YOUR PLACE TO THIS PERSON, AND THEN YOU BEGIN WITH SHAME TO TAKE THE LOWEST PLACE.  BUT WHEN YOU ARE INVITED, GO AND SIT IN THE LOWEST PLACE, SO THAT WHEN YOUR HOST COMES HE MAY SAY TO YOU, FRIEND, MOVE UP HIGHER.  THEN YOU WILL BE HONORED IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL WHO SIT AT THE TABLE WITH YOU.  FOR EVERYONE WHO EXALTS THEMSELVES WILL BE HUMBLED, AND THEY WHO HUMBLE THEMSELVES WILL BE EXALTED. 

MATTHEW 23:1-12- THEN JESUS SAID TO THE CROWDS AND TO HIS DISCIPLES, THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES SIT ON MOSES’ SEAT, SO DO AND OBSERVE WHATEVER THEY TELL YOU, BUT NOT THE WORKS THEY DO.  FOR THEY PREACH, BUT DO NOT PRACTICE.  THEY TIE UP HEAVY BURDENS, HARD TO BEAR, AND LAY THEM ON PEOPLE’S SHOULDERS, BUT THEY THEMSELVES ARE NOT WILLING TO MOVE THEM WITH THEIR FINGER.  THEY DO ALL THEIR DEEDS TO BE SEEN BY OTHERS.  FOR THEY MAKE THEIR PHYLACTERIES BROAD AND THEIR FRINGES LONG, AND THEY LOVE THE PLACE OF HONOR AT FEASTS AND THE BEST SEATS IN THE SYNAGOGUES AND GREETINGS IN THE MARKETPLACES AND BEING CALLED RABBI BY OTHERS.  BUT YOU ARE NOT TO BE CALLED RABBI, FOR YOU HAVE ONE TEACHER, AND YOU ARE ALL BROTHERS AND SISTERS.  AND CALL NO HUMAN YOUR FATHER ON EARTH, FOR YOU HAVE ONE FATHER, WHO IS IN HEAVEN.  NEITHER BE CALLED INSTRUCTORS, FOR YOU HAVE ONE INSTRUCTOR, THE CHRIST.  THE GREATEST AMONG YOU SHALL BE YOUR SERVANT.  WHOEVER EXALTS THEMSELVES WILL BE HUMBLED, AND WHOEVER HUMBLES THEMSELVES WILL BE EXALTED.