Luke 6:25 “Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who l…”

Luke 6:25

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

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wo be to you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Wo be to you that now laugh: for ye shall wayle and weepe.

Darby Translation

Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.

Young's Literal Translation

'Woe to you who have been filled — because ye shall hunger. 'Woe to you who are laughing now — because ye shall mourn and weep.

Bible in Basic English

Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.

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Cross references

“full”

Isaiah 65:13 Revelation 3:17 1 Samuel 2:5 Proverbs 30:9 Isaiah 28:7 Deuteronomy 6:11

Isaiah 65:13 · BSB

Therefore 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.

Revelation 3:17 · BSB

You say, ‘I am rich; I have grown wealthy and need nothing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

1 Samuel 2:5 · BSB

The 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.

Proverbs 30:9 · BSB

Otherwise, 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.

Isaiah 28:7 · BSB

These 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 jud…

Deuteronomy 6:11 · BSB

with 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,

“hunger”

Isaiah 8:21 Isaiah 9:20

Isaiah 8:21 · BSB

They 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.

Isaiah 9:20 · BSB

They 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.

“laugh”

James 4:9 Proverbs 14:13 Luke 8:53 Ecclesiastes 2:2 Ecclesiastes 7:3 Ecclesiastes 7:6

James 4:9 · BSB

Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

Proverbs 14:13 · BSB

Even in laughter the heart may ache, and joy may end in sorrow.

Luke 8:53 · BSB

And they laughed at Him, knowing that she was dead.

Ecclesiastes 2:2 · BSB

I said of laughter, “It is folly,” and of pleasure, “What does it accomplish?”

Ecclesiastes 7:3 · BSB

Sorrow is better than laughter, for a sad countenance is good for the heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:6 · BSB

For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

“mourn”

Job 20:5–7 Amos 8:10 Revelation 18:7–11 Luke 12:20 Luke 13:28 Job 21:11–13

Job 20:5–7 · BSB

the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Amos 8:10 · BSB

I 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…

Revelation 18:7–11 · BSB

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’

Luke 12:20 · BSB

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

Luke 13:28 · BSB

There 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.

Job 21:11–13 · BSB

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.

26Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way.

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