Luke 14:12
Then he said to the man who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, for they may invite you back, and then you'd be repaid.
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11For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
13Instead, when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind,
Cross References
Proverbs 14:20The poor are hated even by their neighbors, while the rich have many friends.
Zechariah 7:5Tell everyone in the land and the priests, when you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and the seventh month during these seventy years, was it really me you were fasting for?
Matthew 6:1“Make sure not to do your good deeds in front of people, just so they can be seen. Otherwise you won't have any reward from your Father in heaven.
Luke 1:53He fills the hungry with good things to eat, and he sends the rich away empty-handed.
James 2:1My friends, as trusting believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, you must 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 →