Luke 14:12

Catholic Public Domain Version

Then he also said to the one who had invited him: "When you prepare a lunch or dinner, do not choose to call your friends, or your brothers, or your relatives, or your wealthy neighbors, lest perhaps they might then invite you in return and repayment would made to you.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:20

The pauper will be hated, even by his own neighbor. Yet truly, the friends of the wealthy are many.

Proverbs 22:16

Whoever slanders the poor, so as to augment his own riches, will give it away to one who is richer, and will be in need.

Matthew 5:46

For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not even tax collectors behave this way?

Luke 1:53

He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.

Luke 1:58

And her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had magnified his mercy with her, and so they congratulated her.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted."

Luke 14:13

But when you prepare a feast, call the poor, the disabled, the lame, and the blind.

2 Corinthians 6:13

But since we have the same recompense, (I am speaking as if to my own sons), you, too, should be enlarged.