10But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, `Friend, move up higher.` Then you will have glory in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted."
12He also said to the one who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, don`t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
14and 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."
15When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is he who will feast in the kingdom of God!"
16But he said to him, "A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.
