Luke 14:12

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:20

The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends.

Proverbs 22:16

He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.

Matthew 5:46

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

Luke 1:53

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

Luke 1:58

And her neighbors and kinsfolk heard that the Lord had shown great mercy to her, and they rejoiced with her.

Luke 14:11

For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 14:13

But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind,

2 Corinthians 6:13

In return—I speak as to children—widen your hearts also.