These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Luke 14
Brit Hadashah 35 verses
- 1 One day—it was a Sabbath—He was taking a meal at the house of one of the Rulers of the Pharisee party, while they were closely watching Him.
- 2 In front of Him was a man suffering from dropsy.
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This led to ask the lawyers and Pharisees, “Is it allowable to cure people on the Sabbath?”
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They gave Him no answer; so He took hold of the man, cured him, and sent him away.
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Then He turned to them and said, “Which of you shall have a child or an ox fall into a well on the Sabbath day, and will not immediately lift him out?”
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To this they could make no reply.
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- 7 Then, when He noticed that the invited guests chose the best seats, He used this as an illustration and said to them,
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“When any one invites you to a wedding banquet, do not take the best seat, lest perhaps some more honoured guest than you may have been asked,
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and the man who invited you both will come and will say to you, ‘Make room for this guest,’ and then you, ashamed, will move to the lowest place.
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On the contrary, when you are invited go and take the lowest place, that when your host comes round he may say to you, ‘My friend, come up higher.’ This will be doing you in the presence of all the other guests.
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- 11 For whoever uplifts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be uplifted.
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Also to His host, who had invited Him, He said, “When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not invite your friends or brothers or relatives or rich neighbours, lest perhaps they should invite you in return and a requital be made you.
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But when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind;
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Luke 14:21 Nehemiah 8:10 Nehemiah 8:12 Luke 11:41 Acts 4:34-35 1 Timothy 5:10 Philemon 1:7 Proverbs 31:6-7 Proverbs 3:9-10 Matthew 22:10 Matthew 15:32-39 Job 29:15-16 Hebrews 13:2 Titus 1:8 2 Chronicles 30:24 Proverbs 14:31 Isaiah 58:7 Job 29:13 Deuteronomy 16:14 Deuteronomy 26:12-13 Deuteronomy 14:29 Acts 2:44-45 Romans 12:13-16 Acts 9:39 Matthew 14:14-21 Isaiah 58:10 Job 31:16-20 2 Samuel 6:19 Deuteronomy 16:11 1 Timothy 3:2 - 14 and you will be blessed, because they have no means of requiting you, but there will be requital for you at the Resurrection of the righteous.”
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After listening to this teaching, one of His fellow guests said to Him, “Blessed is he who shall feast in Elohim’s Kingdom.”
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- 16 “A man once gave a great dinner,” replied , “to which he invited a large number of guests.
- 17 At dinner-time he sent his to announce to those who had been invited, “’Come, for things are now ready.’
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“But they all without exception began to excuse themselves. The first told him, “’I have purchased a piece of land, and must of necessity go and look at it. Pray hold me excused.’
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- 19 “A second pleaded, “’I have bought five yoke of oxen, and am on my way to try them. Pray hold me excused.’
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“Another said, “’I am just married. It is impossible for me to come.’
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“So the came and brought these answers to his master, and they stirred his anger. “’Go out quickly,’ he said, ‘into the streets of the city—the wide ones and the narrow. You will see poor men, and crippled, blind, lame: fetch them all in here.’
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Luke 14:13 John 9:39 Matthew 11:28 Psalm 113:7-8 Isaiah 33:23 Matthew 11:5 Hebrews 2:3 Revelation 19:15 Acts 8:4-7 Hebrews 12:25-26 Matthew 21:28-31 Proverbs 1:20-25 Isaiah 35:6 James 2:5 Matthew 18:31 Hebrews 13:17 Revelation 22:17 1 Samuel 25:12 Proverbs 9:3-4 1 Samuel 2:8 Jeremiah 5:1 Revelation 15:1-8 Proverbs 8:2-4 Matthew 22:7-8 Zechariah 11:7 Luke 7:22-23 Zechariah 11:11 John 4:39-42 Luke 24:47 John 7:47-49 Luke 9:10 Luke 14:24 Matthew 15:12 Psalm 2:12 Psalm 38:7 -
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“Soon the reported the result, saying, “’Sir, what you ordered is done, and there is room still.’
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“’Go out,’ replied the master, ‘to the high roads and hedge-rows, and compel the people to come in, so that my house may be filled.
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Acts 13:47-48 1 Corinthians 9:19-23 Acts 18:6 Isaiah 11:10 Colossians 1:23 Acts 9:15 Matthew 28:19-20 Acts 26:18-20 Acts 16:15 Ephesians 2:11-22 Acts 22:21-22 Acts 28:28 Isaiah 49:5-6 Colossians 1:28 2 Timothy 4:2 Romans 15:9-12 Acts 10:44-48 Acts 11:18-21 Genesis 19:2-3 Romans 11:13-14 2 Corinthians 5:20 Romans 10:18 Matthew 22:9-10 Isaiah 27:13 Psalm 98:3 2 Corinthians 5:11 2 Corinthians 6:1 Luke 24:29 Isaiah 66:19-20 Isaiah 19:24-25 Psalm 110:3 Malachi 1:11 Zechariah 14:8-9 Matthew 21:43 -
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For I tell you that not one of those who were invited shall taste my dinner.’”
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On His journey vast crowds attended Him, towards whom He turned and said,
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- 26 “If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a of mine.
- 27 No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can be a of mine.
- 28 “Which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not sit down first and calculate the cost, asking if he has the means to finish it?—
- 29 lest perhaps, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to finish, all who see it shall begin to jeer at him,
- 30 saying, ‘This man began to build, but could not finish.’
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Or what , marching to encounter another in war, does not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand men to meet the one who is advancing against him with twenty thousand?
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If not, while the other is still a long way off, he sends messengers and sues for .
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Just as no one of you who does not detach himself from all that belongs to him can be a of mine.
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“Salt is good: but if even the salt has become tasteless, what will you use to season it?
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Neither for land nor dunghill is it of any use; they throw it away. Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!”
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