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a Luke 14:8-11 (…But when you are invited, go and sit down at the lowest
place, so that when your host comes, he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up
higher’; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at the table
with you. For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who
humble themselves will be exalted.”)
b 1 Samuel 2:7-8 (The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low, he
also exalts. He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the
ash heap, to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the
pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and on them he has set the world.)
Proverbs 13:7, 2 Corinthians 8:9
c James 2:1-5 (My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism
really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? For if a person with gold
rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in
dirty clothes also comes in, and if you take notice of the one wearing the
fine clothes and say, “Have a seat here, please,” while to the one who is
poor you say, “Stand there,” or, “Sit at my feet,” have you not made
distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts? …)
Proverbs 22:16, Proverbs 28:27
d John 14:10-12 (Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father
is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own; but the
Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father
and the Father is in me; but if you do not, then believe me because of the
works themselves...)
e John 8:54-55 (Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is
my Father who glorifies me, he of whom you say, ‘He is our God,’ though
you do not know him. But I know him; if I would say that I do not know him I
would be a liar like you. But I do know him and I keep his word.)