Luke 14:11-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”(A) 12 Then he said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment.(B) 13 Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;
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