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So the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this man your place.' Then, ashamed, you will begin to move to the least important place.

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.

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you host a dinner or a banquet, don't invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors so you can be invited by them in return and get repaid.

So the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the master of the household was furious and said to his slave, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and alleys of the city, and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.'

So the master said to his slave, ‘Go out to the highways and country roads and urge people to come in, so that my house will be filled.

So Jesus told them this parable:

The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.' So he divided his assets between them.

So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

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.

because this son of mine was dead, and is alive again—he was lost and is found!' So they began to celebrate.

So he called one of the slaves and asked what was happening.

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!

So he called the manager in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.'

I know what to do so that when I am put out of management, people will welcome me into their homes.'

So he contacted his master's debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?'

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by how you use worldly wealth, so that when it runs out you will be welcomed into the eternal homes.

So he called out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in anguish in this fire.'

Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us, so that those who want to cross over from here to you cannot do so, and no one can cross from there to us.'

So the rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father—send Lazarus to my father's house

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don't come into this place of torment.'