Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NIV

NIV

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Luke 14 :: New International Version (NIV)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Jesus at a Pharisee’s House

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:1 - One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:2 - There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:3 - Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the law, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:4 - But they remained silent. So taking hold of the man, he healed him and sent him on his way.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:5 - Then he asked them, “If one of you has a child[fn] or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:6 - And they had nothing to say.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:7 - When he noticed how the guests picked the places of honor at the table, he told them this parable:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:8 - “When someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor, for a person more distinguished than you may have been invited.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:9 - If so, the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, ‘Give this person your seat.’ Then, humiliated, you will have to take the least important place.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:10 - But when you are invited, take the lowest place, so that when your host comes, he will say to you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:11 - For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:12 - Then Jesus said to his host, “When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or sisters, your relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:13 - But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:14 - and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

The Parable of the Great Banquet

(Mat 22:1–14 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:15 - When one of those at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, “Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:16 - Jesus replied: “A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many guests.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:17

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:17 - At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:18 - “But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, ‘I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:19 - “Another said, ‘I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:20 - “Still another said, ‘I just got married, so I can’t come.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:21 - “The servant came back and reported this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:22 - “ ‘Sir,’ the servant said, ‘what you ordered has been done, but there is still room.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:23 - “Then the master told his servant, ‘Go out to the roads and country lanes and compel them to come in, so that my house will be full.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:24 - I tell you, not one of those who were invited will get a taste of my banquet.’ ”

The Cost of Being a Disciple

(Mat 10:34–39 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:25

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:25 - Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said:

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:26

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:26 - “If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:27 - And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:28 - “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:29 - For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:30 - saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:31

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:31 - “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:32

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:32 - If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:33 - In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.
(Mat 5:13; Mar 9:50 )

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:34

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:34 - “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Luk 14:35

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 14:35 - It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out. “Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear.”
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV Footnotes
Some manuscripts donkey
NIV

HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.
Used with permission. All rights reserved worldwide.


See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the NIV Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NIV
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NIV
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Luke Chapter 14 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Morphological Greek New Testament Textus Receptus Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras