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Read Luke 14

World English Bible · 35 verses

¹ When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ He answered them, “Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ “When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ But 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 be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² He 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ and 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ When one of those who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, “Blessed is he who will feast in God’s Kingdom!”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ They all as one began to make excuses. “The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please have me excused.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ “Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ “Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ “That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² “The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ “The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper. For many are called, but few are chosen.’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross and come after me, can’t be my disciple.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁸ For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁹ Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation and isn’t able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁰ saying, ‘This man began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³¹ Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³² Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy and asks for conditions of peace.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³³ So therefore, whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁴ “Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁵ It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org