Lesson in Humility

Luke 14:7. Then He was telling a Parable to those who were invited, noticing how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, 8. “When you would be invited by someone to wedding feasts you should not recline in the place of honor since someone more honored than you could have been invited by him, 9. and then when he comes, the one who invited you will say to you, ‘You must now give your place to this one,’ and then with shame you will begin to take possession of the last place. 10. But when you would have been invited, when you go you must recline in the last place, so that when the one who invited you would come he will say to you, ‘Friend, you must go up higher:’ then honor will come to you in front of all those who recline with you. 11. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” 12. And He was saying even to the one who invited Him, “When you would make a breakfast or supper, call neither your friends nor your brothers nor your kin nor rich neighbors, lest they would also invite you and it would be repayment to you. 13. But when you would make a banquet you must always invite poor, crippled, lame, blind: 14. then you will be blessed, because they do not have the means to repay you, for it will be repaid to you in the resurrection of the righteous.” See Proverb 25:6,7.

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This article is one of 839 in the four-volume One New Man Bible Companion by Rev. William J. Morford: commentary, word studies, myths corrected, Jewish roots, and maps.