Luke 14:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁹ Then the one who invited both of you will come [over] and say to you, ‘Give this man your seat [at the table],’ and then you will be embarrassed and have to move to the least important seat.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ And he who invited both of you will come to you and say, Let this man have the place [you have taken]. Then, with humiliation and a guilty sense of impropriety, you will begin to take the lowest place.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, Give this man place; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place.

Common English Bible

⁹ The host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give your seat to this other person.’ Embarrassed, you will take your seat in the least important place.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And then he who called both you and him, approaching, may say to you, 'Give this place to him.' And then you would begin, with shame, to take the last place.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man place: and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.

Luke 14:9 Cross References

Luke 13:17

And as He said these things, all of His enemies felt ashamed [i.e., for objecting to such a noble act], but the whole crowd rejoiced over all the wonderful things He was doing.

Luke 3:8

Demonstrate by your lives that you have [really] repented, and quit saying to yourselves, ‘We claim Abraham as our forefather,’ because I tell you, God is able to make Abraham’s children out of these stones.