14Luke 14

1When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a Sabbath to eat bread, they were watching him.Select Luke 14:1

2Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.Select Luke 14:2

3Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”Select Luke 14:3

4But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go.Select Luke 14:4

5He answered them, “Which of you, if your sonor an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath day?”Select Luke 14:5

6They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.Select Luke 14:6

7He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,Select Luke 14:7

8“When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, don’t sit in the best seat, since perhaps someone more honorable than you might be invited by him,Select Luke 14:8

9and 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.Select Luke 14:9

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 be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.Select Luke 14:10

11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”Select Luke 14:11

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.Select Luke 14:12

13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;Select Luke 14:13

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.”Select Luke 14:14

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!”Select Luke 14:15

16But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.Select Luke 14:16

17He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’Select Luke 14:17

18They 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.’Select Luke 14:18

19“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’Select Luke 14:19

20“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’Select Luke 14:20

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.’Select Luke 14:21

22“The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’Select Luke 14:22

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.Select Luke 14:23

24For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”Select Luke 14:24

25Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,Select Luke 14:25

26“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.Select Luke 14:26

27Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.Select Luke 14:27

28For 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?Select Luke 14:28

29Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,Select Luke 14:29

30saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’Select Luke 14:30

31Or 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?Select Luke 14:31

32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.Select Luke 14:32

33So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.Select Luke 14:33

34Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?Select Luke 14:34

35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”Select Luke 14:35