Luke 6:25
Woe to you who are filled now, because ye will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, because ye will mourn and weep.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
24However, woe to you the rich, because ye have received your consolation.
26Woe when men will speak well of you, for their fathers did in the same way to the FALSE prophets.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5Those who were full have hired out themselves for bread, and those who were hungry have ceased [to hunger]. Yea, the barren has borne seven, and she who has many sons languishes.
Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Psalms 49:19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
Proverbs 30:9lest I be full, and deny [thee], and say, Who is LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and use the name of my God profanely.
Ecclesiastes 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made glad.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass through it, greatly distressed and hungry. And it shall come to pass that, when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse by their king and by their God, and turn their faces upward.
Matthew Henry on Luke 6:21-27
Blessings and Woes. 20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. 21 Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh. 22 Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. 23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the… Read the whole commentary →