Luke 14:3-16
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3 And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
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4 And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;
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5 And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
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6 And they could not answer him again to these things.
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7 And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,
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8 When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
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9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
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10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
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11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
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12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
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13 But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind:
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14 And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
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15 And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
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16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: