Luke 14:12

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:20

Even by their neighbors the poor are despised, but a rich person’s friends are many.

Proverbs 22:16

Oppressing the poor for enrichment, giving to the rich: both are sheer loss.

Matthew 5:46

For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same?

Luke 1:53

The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty.

Luke 1:58

Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her.

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 14:13

Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;

2 Corinthians 6:13

As recompense in kind (I speak as to my children), be open yourselves. Call to Holiness.