Luke 14:9
 Luke 14:9 
New International Version (©2011)
If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, 'Give this person your seat.' Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.

New Living Translation (©2007)
The host will come and say, 'Give this person your seat.' Then you will be embarrassed, and you will have to take whatever seat is left at the foot of the table!

English Standard Version (©2001)
and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and he who invited you both will come and say to you, 'Give your place to this man,' and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The one who invited both of you may come and say to you, Give your place to this man,' and then in humiliation, you will proceed to take the lowest place.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the host who invited both of you would come to you and say, 'Give this person your place.' In disgrace, you would have to take the place of least honor.

NET Bible (©2006)
So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, 'Give this man your place.' Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“And he who invited you and him should come and say to you, 'Give the place to this man', and you will be ashamed when you stand and you take the last place.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then your host would say to you, 'Give this person your place.' Embarrassed, you would have to take the place of least honor.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he that bade you and him come and say to you, Give this man your place; and you begin with shame to take the lowest place.

American King James Version
And he that bade you and him come and say to you, Give this man place; and you begin with shame to take the lowest room.

American Standard Version
and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, Give this man place; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that invited thee and him, come and say to thee, Give this man place: and then thou begin with shame to take the lowest place.

Darby Bible Translation
and he who invited thee and him come and say to thee, Give place to this man, and then thou begin with shame to take the last place.

English Revised Version
and he that bade thee and him shall come and say to thee, Give this man place; and then thou shalt begin with shame to take the lowest place.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he that invited thee and him, shall come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.

Weymouth New Testament
and the man who invited you both will come and will say to you, 'Make room for this guest,' and then you, ashamed, will move to the lowest place.

World English Bible
and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, 'Make room for this person.' Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.

Young's Literal Translation
and he who did call thee and him having come shall say to thee, Give to this one place, and then thou mayest begin with shame to occupy the last place.

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 he that bade thee and him,.... To the feast, and who is the master of it, and has a right to dispose of, and order his guests at his table, as he thinks fit:

come and say to thee, give this man place; pray rise up, and give this honourable man this seat, which is more suitable for a person of his rank and figure, and take another:

and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room; or place, which must unavoidably fill a man with shame and confusion; because hereby his pride and vanity, in affecting the uppermost room, will be publicly exposed; and he who before sat in the chief place, will have the mortification, before all the guests, to be seated in the lowest.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

9. the lowest—not a lower merely [Bengel].

with shame—"To be lowest is only ignominious to him who affects the highest" [Bengel].


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The Parable of the Guests
7And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying to them. 8When you are bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honorable man than you be bidden of him; 9And he that bade you and him come and say to you, Give this man place; and you begin with shame to take the lowest room.

Luke 3:8 Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
Luke 13:17 When he said this, all his opponents were humiliated, but the people were delighted with all the wonderful things he was doing.