Luk 14:12-14, Heb 13:2, Jam 1:27 | ESV | STEP | He said also to the man who had invited him , When you give a dinner or a banquet , do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors , lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid .

Luke 14:12-14

The Parable of the Great Banquet

12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give ^aa dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers ^{▼▼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} or your relatives or rich neighbors, ^clest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, ^dinvite ^ethe poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid ^fat ^gthe resurrection of the just.”

Hebrews 13:2

2 ^hDo not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby ⁱsome have entertained angels unawares.

James 1:27

27 Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: ^jto visit ^korphans and widows in their affliction, and ^lto keep oneself ^munstained from the world.