Luke 14:12 - King James 2000

¹² Then said he also to him that bade him, When you give a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, neither your kinsmen, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also bid you again, and a recompense be made you.

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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 is hated even of his own neighbor: but the rich has many friends.

Proverbs 22:16

He that oppresses the poor to increase his riches, and he that gives to the rich, shall surely come to poverty.

Matthew 5:46

For if you love them who love you, what reward have you? do not even the tax collectors 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 her cousins heard how the Lord had showed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.

Luke 14:11

For whosoever exalts himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

Luke 14:13

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

2 Corinthians 6:13

Now in return for the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be you also enlarged in heart.