Luke 14:2-14

2And behold, there was a certain dropsical [man] before him.

3And Jesus answering spoke unto the doctors of the law and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath?

4But they were silent. And taking him he healed him and let him go.

5And answering he said to them, Of which of you shall an ass or ox fall into a well, that he does not straightway pull him up on the sabbath day?

6And they were not able to answer him to these things.

7And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,

8When thou art invited by any one to a wedding, do not lay thyself down in the first place at table, lest perhaps a more honourable than thou be invited by him,

9and 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.

10But when thou hast been invited, go and put thyself down in the last place, that when he who has invited thee comes, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have honour before all that are lying at table with thee;

11for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.

12And he said also to him that had invited him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, nor thy kinsfolk, nor rich neighbours, lest it may be they also should invite thee in return, and a recompense be made thee.

13But when thou makest a feast, call poor, crippled, lame, blind:

14and 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.