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Luke 14:4-14
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But they were silent. Then he took him and healed him, and let him go.
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And he said to them, "Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well, will not immediately pull him out on a sabbath day?"
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And they could not reply to this.
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Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,
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"When you are invited by any one to a marriage feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest a more eminent man than you be invited by him;
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and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.
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But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.
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For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
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He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid.
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But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,
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and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.