Study Desk

But when you are invited, go and take the least important place, so that when your host approaches he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up here to a better place.' Then you will be honored in the presence of all who share the meal with you.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

But when you host an elaborate meal, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.

But Jesus said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many guests.

But one after another they all began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. Please excuse me.'

"Salt is good, but if salt loses its flavor, how can its flavor be restored?

But the Pharisees and the experts in the law were complaining, "This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."

He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

So he got up and went to his father. But while he was still a long way from home his father saw him, and his heart went out to him; he ran and hugged his son and kissed him.

But the father said to his slaves, ‘Hurry! Bring the best robe, and put it on him! Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet!

But the older son became angry and refused to go in. His father came out and appealed to him,

but he answered his father, ‘Look! These many years I have worked like a slave for you, and I never disobeyed your commands. Yet you never gave me even a goat so that I could celebrate with my friends!

But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'

But Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in men's eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God's sight.

But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one tiny stroke of a letter in the law to become void.

But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores,

But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; they must respond to them.'

Then the rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.'