Luke 14:12
And he said to the master of the house, When you give a feast, do not send for your friends and your brothers and your family or your neighbours who have wealth, for they may give a feast for you, and so you will get a reward.
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13But when you give a feast, send for the poor and the blind and those who are broken in body:
Cross References
Proverbs 14:20The poor man is hated even by his neighbour, but the man of wealth has numbers of friends.
Zechariah 7:5Say to all the people of the land and to the priests, When you went without food and gave yourselves to grief in the fifth and the seventh months for these seventy years, did you ever do it because of me?
Matthew 6:1Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Luke 1:53Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;
James 2:1My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
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 →