Luke 6:25
Wo be to you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Wo be to you that now laugh: for ye shall wayle and weepe.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
24But wo be to you that are rich: for ye haue receiued your consolation.
26Wo be to you when all men speake well of you: for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:5They that were full, are hired foorth for bread, and the hungrie are no more hired, so that the barren hath borne seuen: and shee that had many children, is feeble.
Job 21:11They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.
Psalms 49:19He shall enter into the generation of his fathers, and they shall not liue for euer.
Proverbs 30:9Least I be full, and denie thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or least I be poore and steale, and take the Name of my God in vaine.
Ecclesiastes 7:3A good name is better then a good oyntment, and the day of death, then the day that one is borne.
Isaiah 8:21Then he that is afflicted and famished, shall go to and from in it: and when he shalbe hungry, he shall euen freat himselfe, and curse his King and his gods, and shall looke vpward.
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 →