Luke 14:12
And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was speaking also to the one who invited him, When you prepare a seudah or a Melave Malkah, do not invite your chaverim or your achim or your krovey mishpochot (relatives) or your shchenim haashirim, lest they also should invite you in return and repayment come to you.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
11For everyone exalting himself shall be humbled, and the one humbling himself shall be exalted.
Cross References
Proverbs 14:20The poor is hated even by his own re'a (neighbor), 1 but the oisher hath many friends. 1
Zechariah 7:5Speak unto kol Am Ha'Aretz, and to the kohanim, saying, When ye did a tzom and mourned in the fifth and seventh, even these past shivim shanah, did ye at all fast the tzom unto Me, even to Me?
Matthew 6:1Be careful that you don't practice your tzedakah (charity giving) before Bnei Adam in order to varf (show off, flaunt) to be seen by Bnei Adam; for then you have no sachar (reward) with your Av sh'ba'Shomayim.
Luke 1:53The ones hungering, Hashem made full of tov, and the ashirim he sent away empty. + 1:53 Ps 107:9
James 2:1My Achim b'Moshiach, you do not with your acts of maso panim (favoritism) hold to the + 2:1 orthodox Jewish emunah of the glorious Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. + 2:1 Dt 1:17; Lv 19:15; Prov 24:23
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 →