When you are invited by someone to wedding festivities, do not recline at the best place at the table, in case someone more honored than you has been invited by him, 9and the one who invited both you and him will come and say to you, ‘Give place to this man,’ and you then will proceed in humiliation to take the last place. 10Rather, when you are invited, go and recline at the last place, so that when the one who has invited you comes he will say to you, ‘Friend, go up to a higher place’; then there will be glory for you before everyone reclining at table with you. 11For everyone exalting
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