Luke 6:25

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“Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.”

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BSBPD

“Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you, ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“`Woe to you who have been filled--because ye shall hunger. `Woe to you who are laughing now--because ye shall mourn and weep.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Luke 6:25 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 6:11with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied,
  2. 1 Samuel 2:5The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
  3. Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
  4. Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
  5. Psalms 22:6But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.
  6. Psalms 49:19he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
  7. Proverbs 14:13Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.
  8. Proverbs 30:9Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
  9. Ecclesiastes 2:2I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”
  10. Ecclesiastes 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.
  11. Ecclesiastes 7:6For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
  12. Isaiah 8:21They will roam the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged; and looking upward, they will curse their king and their God.
  13. Isaiah 9:20They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.
  14. Isaiah 21:3Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
  15. Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
  16. Isaiah 28:7These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.
  17. Isaiah 65:13Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
  18. Daniel 5:4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
  19. Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
  20. Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.
  21. Matthew 22:11But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.
  22. Luke 8:53And they laughed at Him, knowing that she was dead.
  23. Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
  24. Luke 13:28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.

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