Luke 6:21

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Luke 6:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 The entire crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming from Him and healing them all.

20 Looking up at His disciples, Jesus said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

21 Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

22 Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.

23 Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way.

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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.

Luke 1:53

He has filled the hungry with good things, but has sent the rich away empty.

Psalms 42:1

As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.

Psalms 42:2

My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence?

Psalms 143:6

I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

Isaiah 55:1

“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

Isaiah 55:2

Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.

1 Corinthians 4:11

To this very hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, we are homeless.

2 Corinthians 11:27

in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

2 Corinthians 12:10

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Psalms 17:15

As for me, I will behold Your face in righteousness; when I awake, I will be satisfied in Your presence.

Psalms 63:1

O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.

Psalms 63:2

So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

Psalms 63:3

Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

Psalms 63:4

So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift my hands.

Psalms 63:5

My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.

Psalms 65:4

Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.

Psalms 107:9

For He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things.

Isaiah 25:6

On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will prepare a banquet for all the peoples, a feast of aged wine, of choice meat, of finely aged wine.

Isaiah 44:3

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.

Isaiah 44:4

They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

Isaiah 49:9

to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.

Isaiah 49:10

They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.

Isaiah 65:13

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.

Isaiah 66:10

Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her, all who love her. Rejoice greatly with her, all who mourn over her,

Jeremiah 31:14

I will fill the souls of the priests abundantly, and will fill My people with My goodness,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 31:25

for I will refresh the weary soul and replenish all who are weak.”

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

John 4:10

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

John 6:35

Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

John 7:37

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

John 7:38

Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

Revelation 7:16

‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

Psalms 6:6

I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

Psalms 6:7

My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

Psalms 6:8

Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.

Psalms 42:3

My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Psalms 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

Psalms 126:5

Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy.

Psalms 126:6

He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.

Ecclesiastes 7:2

It is better to enter a house of mourning than a house of feasting, since death is the end of every man, and the living should take this to heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

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

Isaiah 30:19

O people in Zion who dwell in Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious when you cry for help; when He hears, He will answer you.

Isaiah 57:17

I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

Isaiah 61:2

to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

Isaiah 61:3

to console the mourners in Zion— to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 31:9

They will come with weeping, and by their supplication I will lead them; I will make them walk beside streams of waters, on a level path where they will not stumble. For I am Israel’s Father, and Ephraim is My firstborn.”

Jeremiah 31:13

Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

Jeremiah 31:19

After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

Jeremiah 31:20

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 7:16

The survivors will escape and live in the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley, each for his own iniquity.

Ezekiel 9:4

“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said the LORD, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

John 11:35

Jesus wept.

John 16:20

Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

John 16:21

A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

Romans 9:1

I speak the truth in Christ; I am not lying, as confirmed by my conscience in the Holy Spirit.

Romans 9:2

I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood,

2 Corinthians 1:4

who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

2 Corinthians 1:5

For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

2 Corinthians 1:6

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

2 Corinthians 6:10

sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything.

2 Corinthians 7:10

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation without regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.

2 Corinthians 7:11

Consider what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what vindication! In every way you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.

James 1:2

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many kinds,

James 1:3

because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

James 1:4

Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

1 Peter 1:6

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials

1 Peter 1:7

so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:8

Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him and rejoice with an inexpressible and glorious joy,

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.

Genesis 17:17

Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”

Genesis 21:6

Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

Psalms 28:7

The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.

Psalms 30:11

You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

Psalms 30:12

that my heart may sing Your praises and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give thanks forever.

Psalms 126:1

When the LORD restored the captives of Zion, we were like dreamers.

Psalms 126:2

Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”

Isaiah 12:1

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

Isaiah 12:2

Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 65:14

My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.