Luke 6:25
Good News Translation
"How terrible for you who are full now; you will go hungry! "How terrible for you who laugh now; you will mourn and weep!

New Revised Standard Version
“Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep.

Contemporary English Version
You well-fed people are in for trouble. You will go hungry! You people who are laughing now are in for trouble. You are going to cry and weep!

New American Bible
But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.

full.

Deuteronomy 6:11,12 Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant, . . .

1 Samuel 2:5 They 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.

Proverbs 30:9 Lest 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.

Isaiah 28:7 But these also have been ignorant through wine, and through drunkenness have erred: the priest and the prophet have been ignorant through drunkenness, they are swallowed up with wine, they have gone astray in drunkenness, they have not known him that seeth, they have been ignorant of judgment.

Isaiah 65:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty.

Philippians 4:12,13 I know both how to be brought low, and I know how to abound (every where and in all things I am instructed): both to be full and to be hungry: both to abound and to suffer need. . . .

Revelation 3:17 Because thou sayest: I am rich and made wealthy and have need of nothing: and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.

hunger.

Isaiah 8:21 And 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.

Isaiah 9:20 And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry: and shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled: every one shall eat the flesh of his own arm: Manasses Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and they together shall be against Juda.

Isaiah 65:13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty.

laugh.

Luke 8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

Luke 16:14,15 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. . . .

Psalm 22:6,7 But I am a worm, and no man: the reproach of men, and the outcast of the people. . . .

Proverbs 14:13 Laughter shall be mingled with sorrow, and mourning taketh hold of the ends of joy.

Ecclesiastes 2:2 Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?

Ecclesiastes 7:3,6 Anger is better than laughter: because by the sadness of the countenance the mind of the offender is corrected. . . .

Ephesians 5:4 Or obscenity or foolish talking or scurrility, which is to no purpose: but rather giving of thanks.

James 4:9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into sorrow.

mourn.

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Luke 13:28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God: and you yourselves thrust out.

Job 20:5-7 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment. . . .

Job 21:11-13 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play. . . .

Psalm 49:19 He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

Isaiah 21:3,4 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. . . .

Isaiah 24:7-12 The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed. . . .

Daniel 5:4-6 They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone. . . .

Amos 8:10 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light:

Nahum 1:10 For as thorns embrace one another: so while they are feasting and drinking together, they shall be consumed as stubble that is fully dry.

Matthew 22:11-13 And the king went in to see the guests: and he saw there a man who had not on a wedding garment. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.

Revelation 18:7-11 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see. . . .

Context
Woes
24But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation. 25Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep. 26Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets.…
Cross References
Luke 6:24
But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation.

Luke 6:26
Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets.

James 4:9
Be afflicted and mourn and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into sorrow.

Luke 6:24
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