Luke 14:12

Then Jesus went on to say to the man who had invited him, “When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not ask your friends, or your brothers or sisters, or your relatives, or rich neighbors, because they might invite you in return, and so you should be repaid.

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In The King James Version

Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

In Context

11For everyone who exalts themselves will be humbled, and everyone who humbles themselves will be exalted.”

13No, when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;

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Cross References

Zechariah 7:5Tell all the people of the land and the priests, “When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month, for these seventy years, did you really fast for me?

Matthew 6:1“Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in heaven has no reward for you.

Luke 1:53he has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.

James 2:1My friends, are you really trying to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with discrimination?

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 →

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