Luke 14:20

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

And the third person said, ‘I just got married, so I cannot attend [the supper].’

Cross References

Luke 14:19

And another person said, ‘I just bought five teams of oxen and I need to go and try them out, so please excuse me [from attending the supper].’

Luke 14:21

Then the slave returned and told his master about these things. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring people who are poor, and handicapped, and blind and crippled in here [i.e., to the supper].’

1 Corinthians 7:33

But the person who is married is [also] concerned about the affairs of the world [and] how to please his wife,