Luke 14:12
Then he said also to him that had invited him: When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made you.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
11For every one that exalts himself shall be humbled; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.
13But when you make a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind;
Cross References
Matthew 6:1Beware of doing your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven.
Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but the rich he has sent empty away.
James 2:1My brethren, do not hold the faith of our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, so as to show a partiality for persons.
Matthew Henry on Luke 14:8-15
Humility Recommended. 7 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them, 8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him; 9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room. 10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may… Read the whole commentary →