SinaiLuke 14:11
World English Bible
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
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Luke 14:11 in other translations
For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke 14:11 in context
- 9and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.
- 10But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
- 11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
- 12He 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.
- 13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;