Luke 14:9-16

⁹and the host who invited you both will come and say to you ‘Make room for this person,’ and then you will begin in confusion to take the lowest place.

¹⁰No, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place, so that, when the host who has invited you comes, he may say to you ‘Friend, come higher up’; and then you will be honoured in the eyes of all your fellow guests.

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 neighbours, 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,