Luke 14:14
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New International Version (©2011)
and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then at the resurrection of the righteous, God will reward you for inviting those who could not repay you."

English Standard Version (©2001)
and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and you will be blessed, since they do not have the means to repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then you will be blessed because they can't repay you. And you will be repaid when the righteous are resurrected."

NET Bible (©2006)
Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“And you will be blessed, for they have nothing to repay you, for your reward will be in the resurrection of the righteous.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then you will be blessed because they don't have any way to pay you back. You will be paid back when those who have God's approval come back to life."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And you shall be blessed; for they cannot recompense you: for you shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

American King James Version
And you shall be blessed; for they cannot recompense you: for you shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

American Standard Version
and thou shalt be blessed; because they have not wherewith to recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

Darby Bible Translation
and thou shalt be blessed; for they have not the means to recompense thee; for it shall be recompensed thee in the resurrection of the just.

English Revised Version
and thou shalt be blessed; because they have not wherewith to recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed in the resurrection of the just.

Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt be blessed: for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Weymouth New Testament
and you will be blessed, because they have no means of requiting you, but there will be requital for you at the Resurrection of the righteous."

World English Bible
and you will be blessed, because they don't have the resources to repay you. For you will be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous."

Young's Literal Translation
and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

14:7-14 Even in the common actions of life, Christ marks what we do, not only in our religious assemblies, but at our tables. We see in many cases, that a man's pride will bring him low, and before honour is humility. Our Saviour here teaches, that works of charity are better than works of show. But our Lord did not mean that a proud and unbelieving liberality should be rewarded, but that his precept of doing good to the poor and afflicted should be observed from love to him.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And thou shalt be blessed,.... By God, with an increase of worldly substance, or with spiritual blessings, and with eternal glory and happiness; and by these poor objects, who will pray to God for a blessing upon such a kind benefactor:

for they cannot recompense thee; by inviting again to a like entertainment, as rich guests can do, and when they have done that there is nothing else to be expected; but such that entertain the poor can have no return from them, and yet a retaliation will be made:

for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just; when the just shall rise again, which will be the first resurrection; and happy is he that has part in it: for the righteous, or dead in Christ will rise first; and notice will be taken of the good works of the saints, particularly of their acts of beneficence to the poor members of Christ; and which they have done in faith, from a principle of love to Christ, and with a view to the glory of God, and the good of their fellow creatures and Christians.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

14. blessed—acting from disinterested, god-like compassion for the wretched.

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The Parable of the Guests
…12Then said he also to him that bade him, When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brothers, neither your kinsmen, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also bid you again, and a recompense be made you. 13But when you make a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: 14And you shall be blessed; for they cannot recompense you: for you shall be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

Luke 14:13 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
John 5:29 and come out--those who have done what is good will rise to live, and those who have done what is evil will rise to be condemned.
Acts 24:15 and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
Revelation 20:5 (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.