014:006 To this they could make no reply.
014:007 Then, when He noticed that the invited guests chose the best seats, He used this as an illustration and said to them,
014:008 "When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take
the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you
may have been asked,
014:009 and the man who invited you both will come and will say to you,
`Make room for this guest,' and then you, ashamed, will move
to the lowest place.
014:010 On the contrary, when you are invited go and take the lowest place, that when your host comes round he may say to you, `My friend, come up higher.' This will be doing you honour in the presence of all the other guests.
014:011 For whoever uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted.
014:012 Also to His host, who had invited Him, He said, "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbours, lest perhaps they should invite you in return and a requital be made you.
014:013 But when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind;
014:014 and you will be blessed, because they have no means of requiting you, but there will be requital for you at the Resurrection of the righteous."
014:015 After listening to this teaching, one of His fellow guests said
to Him, "Blessed is he who shall feast in God's Kingdom."