¹⁰ But when you are invited, go and sit down at the place of least honor. Then, when your host comes, he will tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher,’ and you will be honored in the presence of everyone who eats with you. ¹¹ Because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the person who humbles himself will be exalted.”

¹² Then he told the man who had invited him, “When you give a luncheon or a dinner, stop inviting only^[a] your friends, brothers, relatives, or rich neighbors. Otherwise, they may invite you in return and you would be repaid.