⁸ “When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited. ⁹ If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place. ¹⁰ But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests. ¹¹ For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”^(A)

³⁰ But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.^(A)

¹² Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold,

³⁵ Sitting down, Jesus called the Twelve and said, “Anyone who wants to be first must be the very last, and the servant of all.”^(A)

³⁰ Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”^(A)

⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:^(A)

⁵ In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:^(A)