12 He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give 1a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers[a] or your relatives or rich neighbors, 2lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.
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But when you give a feast, 3invite 4the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind,
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and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid 5at 6the resurrection of the just."
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Or your brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated "brothers") refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters
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