Matthew 23:11-13

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹¹ He who is greatest among you shall be your servant.

¹² Whoever exalts himself [^[a]with haughtiness and empty pride] shall be humbled (brought low), and whoever humbles himself [whoever has a modest opinion of himself and behaves accordingly] shall be ^[b]raised to honor.

¹³ But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces; for you neither enter yourselves, nor do you allow those who are about to go in to do so.