Thematic Bible: Advices to guests
Thematic Bible
Social functions » Advices to guests » Not to be critical of food
If one of the unbelievers invites you [to a meal at his home] and you want to go, eat whatever is served to you without asking questions [about its source] for the sake of your conscience.
Social functions » Advices to guests » Not to prolong visits
Let your foot seldom be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become tired of you and hate you.
Social functions » Advices to guests » Not to seek social pre-eminence
When you are invited by anyone to a marriage feast, do not recline on the chief seat [in the place of honor], lest a more distinguished person than you has been invited by him, And he who invited both of you will come to you and say, Let this man have the place [you have taken]. Then, with humiliation and a guilty sense of impropriety, you will begin to take the lowest place.