Luke 14:14 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then you will receive a blessing, because these people do not have anything to pay you back with, for you will be paid back when righteous people are raised from the dead.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then you will be blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied), because they have no way of repaying you, and you will be recompensed at the resurrection of the just (upright).

American Standard Version (1901)

and thou shalt be blessed; because they have not wherewith to recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.

Common English Bible

And you will be blessed because they can’t repay you. Instead, you will be repaid when the just are resurrected.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And you will be blessed because they do not have a way to repay you. So then, your recompense will be in the resurrection of the just."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

Luke 14:14 Cross References

Matthew 6:4

so that your giving to poor people may be done secretly. Then your Father, who sees what is done secretly, will pay you back.

Luke 14:13

But when you prepare a banquet, invite people who are poor, handicapped, crippled and blind [as well].

John 5:29

and they will come out [i.e., in the general resurrection on the last day]. Those who had done what was good will be raised [from the dead] to [never ending] life; and those who had done what was evil will be raised [from the dead] to judgment [i.e., to be condemned].

Acts 24:15

I have a hope in God that there will be a resurrection both for those who have done right and those who have done wrong, just as the Jews themselves also expect.