When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him;


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Matthew 22 8 Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.
Proverbs 25 7 For better it is that it be said unto thee, Come up hither; than that thou shouldest be put lower in the presence of the prince whom thine eyes have seen.
Luke 14 10 But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.
Luke 14 24 For I say unto you, That none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.
John 3 29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
Joel 2 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
Proverbs 25 6 Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
Luke 14 9 And he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
1 Samuel 2 33 And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
Revelation 18 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
James 2 2 For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
Proverbs 29 23 A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
Esther 6 9 And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
Matthew 5 23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
Judges 19 23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, nay, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine house, do not this folly.
Exodus 22 16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.
Proverbs 5 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
1 Peter 3 7 Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
Isaiah 47 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
Isaiah 1 23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Numbers 5 20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:
Amos 2 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
Matthew 22 3 And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
Luke 14 12 Then said he also to him that bade him, When thou makest a dinner or a supper, call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee.
Numbers 18 7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Revelation 3 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
1 Corinthians 7 3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
1 Corinthians 7 10 And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:
Deuteronomy 28 56 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
Matthew 22 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
Deuteronomy 25 5 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Luke 12 36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Psalms 65 4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
Amos 2 15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.
Deuteronomy 24 17 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
Genesis 44 17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.
Numbers 5 10 And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
Deuteronomy 28 54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
2 Samuel 6 22 And I will yet be more vile than thus, and will be base in mine own sight: and of the maidservants which thou hast spoken of, of them shall I be had in honour.
1 Peter 3 1 Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
Jeremiah 33 11 The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
Ecclesiastes 7 21 Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
Numbers 5 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman's hand, and shall wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it upon the altar:
Proverbs 24 1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Job 11 19 Also thou shalt lie down, and none shall make thee afraid; yea, many shall make suit unto thee.
Proverbs 19 10 Delight is not seemly for a fool; much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Numbers 14 42 Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.
Ezekiel 23 41 And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
Psalms 147 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
Isaiah 2 17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.