Jesus Teaches about Humility

Luke 14:7-14

7. Jesus noticed how some of the dinner guests were trying to sit in the seats of honor near the head of the table. So he told them a story.
8. When someone invites you to a wedding, don’t sit in the most important seat. They may have invited someone more important than you.
9. And if you are sitting in the most important seat, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your seat!’ Then humiliated and embarrassed, you will have to take whatever seat is left at the foot of the table!
10. Instead, when you’re invited to dinner, go and recline in the lowest place, so that when the one who invited you comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ You will then be honored in the presence of all the other guests.
11. If you put yourself above others, you will be put down. But if you humble yourself, you will be honored.
12. He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you host a dinner or a banquet, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.
13. Instead, when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, and the blind.
14. Then you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”