Luke 14:12
He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
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In Context
11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
Cross References
Proverbs 14:20The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.
Zechariah 7:5“Speak to all the people of the land and to the priests, saying, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh month for these seventy years, did you at all fast to me, really to me?
Matthew 6:1“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.
Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
James 2:1My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our glorious Lord Yeshua the Messiah 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 →