Luke 14:14
Good News Translation
and you will be blessed, because they are not able to pay you back. God will repay you on the day the good people rise from death."

New Revised Standard Version
And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Contemporary English Version
They cannot pay you back. But God will bless you and reward you when his people rise from death.

New American Bible
blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just.

for thou.

Proverbs 19:17 He that hath mercy on the poor, lendeth to the Lord: and he will repay him.

Matthew 6:4 That thy alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth in secret will repay thee.

Matthew 10:41,42 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet, shall receive the reward of a prophet: and he that receiveth a just man in the name of a just man, shall receive the reward of a just man. . . .

Matthew 25:34-40 Then shall the king say to them that shall be on his right hand: Come, ye blessed of my Father, possess you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. . . .

Philippians 4:18,19 But I have all and abound: I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things you sent, an odour of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. . . .

the resurrection.

Luke 20:35,36 But they that shall be accounted worthy of that world and of the resurrection from the dead shall neither be married nor take wives. . . .

Daniel 12:2,3 And many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake: some unto life everlasting, and others unto reproach, to see it always. . . .

John 5:29 And they that have done good things shall come forth unto the resurrection of life: but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.

Acts 24:15 Having hope in God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust.

Context
The Parable of the Guests
13But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind. 14And thou shalt be blessed, because they have not wherewith to make thee recompense: for recompense shall be made thee at the resurrection of the just. 15When one of them that sat at table with him had heard these things, he said to him: Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.…
Cross References
Luke 14:13
But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame and the blind.

John 5:29
And they that have done good things shall come forth unto the resurrection of life: but they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of judgment.

Acts 24:15
Having hope in God, which these also themselves look for, that there shall be a resurrection of the just and unjust.

Revelation 20:4
And I saw seats. And they sat upon them: and judgment was given unto them. And the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not adored the beast nor his image nor received his character on their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Revelation 20:5
The rest of the dead lived not, till the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Luke 14:13
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