Luke 14:7-11 ▼

7 And He spoke an allegory to those called, marking how they were choosing out the first couches, saying to them,

8 “When you may be called by anyone to wedding feasts, you may not recline on the first couch, lest [one] more honorable than you may have been called by him,

9 and he who called you and him having come will say to you, Give to this one [your] place, and then you may begin to occupy the last place with shame.

10 But when you may be called, having gone on, recline in the last place, that when he who called you may come, he may say to you, Friend, come up higher; then you will have glory before those dining with you;

11 because everyone who is exalting himself will be humbled, and he who is humbling himself will be exalted.”