Luke.14.10  But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, `Friend, go up higher'; then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you.
1Cor.12.31  But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

Hyper-concordance v1.1, by Sean Boisen. Scripture verses taken from the Revised Standard Version, copyright 1952, 1971.