Luke 14
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Luke 14:12-16

12He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

13But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

14and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

15When one of those who reclined at table with him heard these things, he said to him, "Blessed is everyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!"

16But he said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.

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