Luke 14:7

And he spake a simile unto those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying unto them,

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,

In Context

6and they were not able to answer him again unto these things.

8'When thou mayest be called by any one to marriage-feasts, thou mayest not recline on the first couch, lest a more honourable than thou may have been called by him,

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Cross References

Judges 14:12And Samson saith to them, 'Let me, I pray you, put forth to you a riddle; if ye certainly declare it to me [in] the seven days of the banquet, and have found [it] out, then I have given to you thirty linen shirts, and thirty changes of garments;

Proverbs 25:7For better [that] he hath said to thee, 'Come thou up hither,' Than [that] he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.

Matthew 13:34All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

Mark 12:38and he was saying to them in his teaching, 'Beware of the scribes, who will in long robes to walk, and love salutations in the market-places,

Luke 20:46'Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

Philippians 2:3nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves —

Matthew Henry on Luke 14:2-7

A Man Cured of the Dropsy. 1 And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him. 2 And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy. 3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? 4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; 5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will… Read the whole commentary →

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