Luke 6:25
Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
24But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full before have hired out themselves for bread: and the hungry are filled, so that the barren hath borne many: and she that had many children is weakened.
Job 21:11Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
Psalms 49:19For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.
Proverbs 30:9Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.
Ecclesiastes 7:3It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.
Isaiah 8:21And they shall pass by it, they shall fall, and be hungry: and when they shall be hungry, they will be angry, and curse their king, and their God, and look upwards.
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 →