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| | Luk 14:1 | One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched.
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| | Luk 14:2 | There in front of him was a man suffering from dropsy.
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| | Luk 14:3 | Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?"
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| | Luk 14:4 | But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him away.
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| | Luk 14:5 | Then he asked them, "If one of you has a son or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull him out?"
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| | Luk 14:6 | And they had nothing to say.
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| | Luk 14:7 | When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable:
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| | Luk 14:8 | "When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited.
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| | Luk 14:9 | If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, `Give this man your seat.' Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.
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| | Luk 14:10 | But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, `Friend, move up to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all your fellow guests.
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| | Luk 14:11 | For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
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| | Luk 14:12 | Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.
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| | Luk 14:13 | But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
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| | Luk 14:14 | and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
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| | Luk 14:15 | When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, "Blessed is the man who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God."
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| | Luk 14:16 | Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.
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| | Luk 14:17 | At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, `Come, for everything is now ready.'
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| | Luk 14:18 | "But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, `I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.'
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| | Luk 14:19 | "Another said, `I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.'
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| | Luk 14:20 | "Still another said, `I just got married, so I can't come.'
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| | Luk 14:21 | "The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, `Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.'
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| | Luk 14:22 | "`Sir,' the servant said, `what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.'
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| | Luk 14:23 | "Then the master told his servant, `Go out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will be full.
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| | Luk 14:24 | I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.'"
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| | Luk 14:25 | Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said:
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| | Luk 14:26 | "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple.
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| | Luk 14:27 | And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
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| | Luk 14:28 | "Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?
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| | Luk 14:29 | For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
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| | Luk 14:30 | saying, `This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.'
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| | Luk 14:31 | "Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
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| | Luk 14:32 | If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.
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| | Luk 14:33 | In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.
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| | Luk 14:34 | "Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
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| | Luk 14:35 | 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."
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