Luke 14:12
Then Jesus said to the man who had invited Him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return, and you will be repaid.
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
13But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,
Cross References
Proverbs 14:20The poor man is hated even by his neighbor, but many are those who love the rich.
Zechariah 7:5“Ask all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh months for these seventy years, was it really for Me that you fasted?
Matthew 6:1“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.
James 2:1My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.
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 →