Luke 6:26

Woe to you, when all men shall bless you; after these things the fathers of them did to [false] prophets (or for thus their fathers did to the false prophets).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

In Context

25Woe to you that be full-filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh, for ye shall mourn, and weep. [Woe to you that be filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now, for ye shall mourn, and weep.]

27But I say to you that hear, love ye your enemies, do ye well to them that hated you [or do ye well to them that hate you];

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:6Therefore the king of Israel gathered together [the] prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them, Ought I to go into Ramoth of Gilead to fight, either ought I to rest? Which answered, Go thou up, and the Lord shall give it in (to) the hand of the king.

1 Kings 22:24Forsooth Zedekiah, [the] son of Chenaanah, nighed, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Whether the Spirit of the Lord forsook me, and spake to thee?

Jeremiah 5:31prophets prophesied leasing, and priests joyed with their hands, and my people loved such things. What therefore shall be done in the last thing thereof? (prophets prophesied lies, and the priests clapped their hands, and my people loved such things. And so what shall be done in its last things, or at the end of it all?)

Matthew 7:15Be ye ware of false prophets, that come to you in clothings of sheep, but withinforth they be wolves of raven [or but within they be ravishing (or snatching) wolves];

John 15:19If ye had been of the world, the world should love that thing that was his (or the world would love that which was its own); but for ye be not of the world, but I chose you from the world, therefore the world hateth you.

2 Thessalonians 2:8And then that wicked man shall be showed, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with (the) lightening, [or the illumining, or (the) shining], of his coming;

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 →

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