Luke 14:7-14

Modern English Version

A Lesson to Guests and a Host

⁷ When He marked how they chose the seats of honor, He told a parable to those who were invited, saying to them, ⁸ “When you are invited by any man to a wedding banquet, do not sit down in a seat of honor, lest a more honorable man than you be invited by him; ⁹ and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give this man the seat,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest seat. ¹⁰ But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest seat, so that when he who invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, go up higher.’ Then you will have respect in the presence of those who sit at dinner with you. ¹¹ For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹² Then He said also to the one who invited Him, “When you prepare a dinner or a supper, do not call your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or your rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid. ¹³ But when you prepare a banquet, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, ¹⁴ and you will be blessed, for they cannot repay you. You shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”