Luke · Chapter 14 King James Version

Luke 14:8

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The Scripture

(8) When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;
Chapter overview (whole chapter)

Luke 14 records Jesus dining at a Pharisee ruler's house on the Sabbath, where he heals a man with dropsy and challenges the lawyers and Pharisees on whether it is lawful to heal on the Sabbath. He teaches humility by urging guests to take the lowest place and the host to invite the poor, maimed, lame, and blind who cannot repay, and he tells the parable of the great supper whose invited guests make excuses so that the poor and outcast are brought in. The chapter closes with the parables of counting the cost-building a tower and a king going to war-and the warning that whoever does not forsake all he has cannot be Christ's disciple, and that salt without savor is fit only to be cast out.

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Cross-references
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 25:6Proverbs 25:7

Related verses (shared words)

Luke 14:10I Samuel 9:22Matthew 22:3Matthew 22:8