SinaiLuke 14:12
World English Bible
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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Luke 14:12 in other translations
And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.
Luke 14:12 in context
- 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;
- 14and you will be blessed, because they don’t have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous.”