Luke 14:13

Instead, invite the poor, maimed, lame, and blind. Kingdom generosity reaches those who cannot reciprocate.

Cross-references · 30

• Luke 14:21“That servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor, maimed, blind, and lame.’
• Isa 58:10and if you pour out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul: then your light will rise in darkness, and your obscurity will be as the noonday;
• Prov 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
• Isa 58:7Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
• Job 29:15–16I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
• Heb 13:2Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.
• Job 31:16–20“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Neh 8:10Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
• Matt 14:14–21Jesus went out, and he saw a great multitude. He had compassion on them, and healed their sick.
• Matt 22:10Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
• Deut 16:14You shall rejoice in your feast, you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates.
• 1 Tim 5:10being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
• Deut 14:29The Levite, because he has no portion nor inheritance with you, and the foreigner living among you, and the fatherless, and the widow, who are within your gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Yahweh your God may bless you in all the work of your hand which you do.
• Deut 26:12–13When you have finished tithing all the tithe of your increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then you shall give it to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within your gates, and be filled.
• Deut 16:11You shall rejoice before Yahweh your God: you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, the Levite who is within your gates, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, who are among you, in the place which Yahweh your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there.
• Prov 3:9–10Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
• 2 Chr 30:24For Hezekiah king of Judah gave to the assembly for offerings one thousand bulls and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the assembly a thousand bulls and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.
• Rom 12:13–16contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.
• Prov 31:6–7Give strong drink to him who is ready to perish; and wine to the bitter in soul:
• 1 Tim 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
• Acts 2:44–45All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
• 2 Sam 6:19He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.
• Acts 4:34–35For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,
• Matt 15:32–39Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”
• Job 29:13the blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
• Neh 8:12All the people went their way to eat, to drink, to send portions, and to celebrate, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
• Titus 1:8but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled;
• Acts 9:39Peter got up and went with them. When he had come, they brought him into the upper room. All the widows stood by him weeping, and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them.
• Luke 11:41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
• Phlm 1:7For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

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