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9 The host, who invited both of you, will come to you and say, 'Give this person your seat.' Then you will be embarrassed and will have to move to the last place.
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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 So when you are invited, go sit in a seat that is not important. When the host comes to you, he may say, 'Friend, move up here to a more important place.' Then all the other guests will respect you.
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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 All who make themselves great will be made humble, but those who make themselves humble will be made great."
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For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
12 Then Jesus said to the man who had invited him, "When you give a lunch or a dinner, don't invite only your friends, your family, your other relatives, and your rich neighbors. At another time they will invite you to eat with them, and you will be repaid.
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Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.
13 Instead, when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.
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But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
14 Then you will be blessed, because they have nothing and cannot pay you back. But you will be repaid when the good people rise from the dead."
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and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”
15 One of those at the table with Jesus heard these things and said to him, "Happy are the people who will share in the meal in God's kingdom."
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When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”
16 Jesus said to him, "A man gave a big banquet and invited many people.
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Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.
17 When it was time to eat, the man sent his servant to tell the guests, 'Come. Everything is ready.'
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At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’
18 "But all the guests made excuses. The first one said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go look at it. Please excuse me.'
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“But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’
19 Another said, 'I have just bought five pairs of oxen; I must go and try them. Please excuse me.'
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“Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’
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