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 your relations, or rich neighbours, for fear that they should invite you in return, and so you should be repaid.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
11For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
13No, when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;
Cross References
Matthew 6:1Take 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 1:53the hungry he loads with gifts, and the rich he sends empty away.
James 2:1My Brothers, are you really trying to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the worship of rank?
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 →