Luke 14 — OURB
14Verse 1When he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees [Separated] on a Sabbath ·To cease· to eat bread, they were watching him.Verse 2Behold, a certain man who had dropsy was in front of him.Verse 3Yeshua [Salvation], answering, spoke to the Torah-experts and Pharisees [Separated], saying, “Does the Torah ·Teaching· allow healing on the Sabbath ·To cease· or not?”Verse 4But they were silent. He took him, and healed him, and let him go.Verse 5He answered them, “Which of you, if your son or an ox fell into a well, wouldn’t immediately pull him out on a Sabbath ·To cease· day?”Verse 6They couldn’t answer him regarding these things.Verse 7He spoke a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the best seats, and said to them,Verse 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,Verse 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.Verse 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.Verse 11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”Verse 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 teshuvah ·completely return· the favor, and pay you back.Verse 13But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;Verse 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 upright.”Verse 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 God’s Kingdom!”Verse 16But he said to him, “A certain man made a great supper, and he invited many people.Verse 17He sent out his servant at supper time to tell those who were invited, ‘Come, for everything is ready now.’Verse 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.’Verse 19“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go try them out. Please have me excused.’Verse 20“Another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I can’t come.’Verse 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.’Verse 22“The servant said, ‘Lord, it is done as you commanded, and there is still room.’Verse 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.Verse 24For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”Verse 25Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,Verse 26“If anyone comes to me, and does not disregard his own father, mother, wife, children,+brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.Verse 27Whoever does not bear his own execution-stake, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.Verse 28For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?Verse 29Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,Verse 30saying, ‘This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’Verse 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?Verse 32Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.Verse 33So therefore whoever of you who does not renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.Verse 34Salt is good, but if the salt becomes flat and tasteless, with what do you season it?Verse 35It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him sh'ma ·hear obey·.”