Luke 14:7-9

Expanded Bible

Don’t Make Yourself Important

⁷ When Jesus noticed that some of the guests were choosing the ·best places [places of honor] to sit [^Cseats were assigned according to social status], he told this ·story [parable]: ⁸ “When someone invites you to a wedding feast, don’t take the ·most important seat [place of honor], because someone more ·important [distinguished; honorable] than you may have been invited. ⁹ The host, who invited both of you, will come to you and say, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then you will be ·embarrassed [humiliated; disgraced; shamed] and will have to move to the ·last [least; lowest] place.