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Luke 14:3-15 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

3. So Yeshua said to the Torah lawyers and the Pharisees, “Is it permitted to heal on Shabbat, or not?”

4. But they kept silent. So Yeshua took hold of him and healed him, and He sent him away.

5. Then He said to them, “Which of you, with a son or an ox falling into a well on Yom Shabbat, will not immediately pull him out?”

6. And they could not reply to these things.

7. Yeshua began telling a parable to those who had been invited, when He noticed how they were choosing the seats of honor. He said to them,

8. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding, don’t take the seat of honor, for someone more highly esteemed than you may have been invited by him.

9. Then the one who invited both of you will come to you and say, ‘Give up this seat.’ And with shame, you would proceed to take the lowest seat.

10. But when you are invited, go and recline in the lowest seat so that when the one who invited you comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you shall be honored in the presence of all those who are dining with you.

11. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

12. Then Yeshua was also saying to the one who invited Him, “When you host a luncheon or dinner, don’t invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors. Otherwise they might invite you in return as your payback.

13. But when you host a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind;

14. and you will be blessed, since they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

15. Now hearing this, one of those dining with Yeshua said to Him, “Blessed is he who eats bread in the kingdom of God.”

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