Luke 14:10
But when you art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade you cometh, he may say unto you, Friend, go up higher: then shall you have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with you.
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Context
8 When you art bidden of any to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than you be bidden of him;
9 And he that bade you and him come and say to you, Give this man place; and you begin with shame to take the lowest room.
10 But when you art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade you cometh, he may say unto you, Friend, go up higher: then shall you have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with you.
11 For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When you makest a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, neither your kinsmen, nor rich neighbours; lest they also bid you again, and a recompence be made you.