11For everyone who exalts themselves will be humbled, and everyone who humbles themselves will be exalted.”
12Then Jesus went on to say to the man who had invited him, “When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not ask your friends, or your brothers or sisters, or your relatives, or rich neighbors, because they might invite you in return, and so you should be repaid.
13No, when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;
14and then you will be happy indeed, since they cannot reward you; for you will be rewarded at the resurrection of the good.”
15One of the guests heard what he said and exclaimed, “Happy will be the person who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!”
16But Jesus said to him, “A man was once giving a great dinner. He invited many people,
17and sent his servant, when it was time for the dinner, to say to those who had been invited ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’
18They all with one accord began to ask to be excused. The first said to the servant ‘I have bought a field and am obliged to go and look at it. I must ask you to consider me excused.’
Luke 14
Luke 14:11-18