Luke 14:12
Also to his host who had invited him, he continued, saying. "When you are making a dinner-party or a supper, do not invite your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your rich neighbors, lest it chance that they invite you in return, and a recompense be made by you.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
11"For every one who exalts himself shall be humbled, and he who humbles himself shall be exalted."
13"But when you make a reception, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.
Cross References
Matthew 6:1"Be careful not to do your good deeds in the sight of men, in order to be observed by them. If you do, you have no reward with your heavenly Father.
Luke 1:53"The hungry he has filled with good things, But the rich he has sent empty away.
James 2:1My brothers, do not hold the faith of the Lord Jesus, the Lord of Glory, in a spirit of caste.
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 →