Luke 14:12 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

¹² Then Jesus said to the Pharisee who had invited him, “When you give a lunch or a dinner, don’t invite only your friends, brothers, relatives, and rich neighbors. At another time they will pay you back by inviting you to eat with them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Jesus also said to the man who had invited Him, When you give a dinner or a supper, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, lest perhaps they also invite you in return, and so you are paid back.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And he said to him also that had bidden him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsmen, nor rich neighbors; lest haply they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.

Common English Bible

¹² Then Jesus said to the person who had invited him, “When you host a lunch or dinner, don’t invite your friends, your brothers and sisters, your relatives, or rich neighbors. If you do, they will invite you in return and that will be your reward.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² 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.

Luke 14:12 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 14:20

The poor have no friends, not even their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.

Proverbs 22:16

These two things will make you poor: hurting the poor to make yourself rich and giving gifts to the rich.

Matthew 5:46

If you love only those who love you, why should you get a reward for that? Even the tax collectors do that.

Luke 1:53

He filled the hungry with good things, but he sent the rich away with nothing.

Luke 1:58

Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord was very good to her, and they were happy for her.

Luke 14:11

Everyone who makes themselves important will be made humble. But everyone who makes themselves humble will be made important.”

Luke 14:13

Instead, when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, and the blind.

2 Corinthians 6:13

I speak to you as if you were my children. Do the same as we have done—open your hearts also.