Luke 14:11

11 What I'm saying is, If you walk around with your nose in the air, you're going to end up flat on your face. But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself."

Luke 14:11 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 14:11

For whosoever exalteth himself
Either in the above way, or any other, shall be abased, humbled and mortified:

and he that humbleth himself;
behaves in an humble and modest manner,

shall be exalted; (See Gill on Matthew 23:12).

Luke 14:11 In-Context

9 Then he'll come and call out in front of everybody, 'You're in the wrong place. The place of honor belongs to this man.' Red-faced, you'll have to make your way to the very last table, the only place left.

10 "When you're invited to dinner, go and sit at the last place. Then when the host comes he may very well say, 'Friend, come up to the front.' That will give the dinner guests something to talk about!

11 What I'm saying is, If you walk around with your nose in the air, you're going to end up flat on your face. But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself."

12 Then he turned to the host. "The next time you put on a dinner, don't just invite your friends and family and rich neighbors, the kind of people who will return the favor.

13 Invite some people who never get invited out, the misfits from the wrong side of the tracks.