Luke 14:12
Then He said directly to His host: “Whenever you give a dinner or a supper, do not invite your friends, nor your brothers, nor your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.
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11Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
13But whenever you make a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;
Cross References
Matthew 6:1“Be careful not to do your charitable giving before the people so as to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father who is in the heavens.
Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things and sent the rich away empty.
James 2:1My brothers, stop holding the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Glory, with partiality!
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 →