Luke 14:11
World English Bible (WEB)
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
In context
9 and he who invited both of you would come and tell you, ‘Make room for this person.’ Then you would begin, with shame, to take the lowest place.
10 But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes, he may tell you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table with you.
11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
12 He also said to the one who had invited him, “When you make a dinner or a supper, don’t call your friends, nor your brothers, nor your kinsmen, nor rich neighbors, or perhaps they might also return the favor, and pay you back.
13 But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
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Luke 14:11 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
- KJV King James Version
- For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- ASV American Standard Version
- For every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'
- DBY Darby Translation
- for every one that exalts himself shall be abased, and he that abases himself shall be exalted.
- WBS Webster Bible
- For whoever exalteth himself shall be abased, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.