Luke 6:25

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Luke 6:23–27 · Berean Standard Bible

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.

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

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.

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

27 But to those of you who will listen, I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,

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Deuteronomy 6:11

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,

Deuteronomy 6:12

be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

1 Samuel 2:5

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

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

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 judgments.

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.

Philippians 4:12

I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need.

Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

Revelation 3:17

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.

Isaiah 8:21

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

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.

Luke 8:53

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

Luke 16:14

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.

Luke 16:15

So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized among men is detestable before God.

Psalms 22:6

But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by men and despised by the people.

Psalms 22:7

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

Proverbs 14:13

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

Ecclesiastes 2:2

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

Ecclesiastes 7:3

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

Ecclesiastes 7:6

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

Ephesians 5:4

Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.

James 4:9

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

Luke 12:20

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

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 20:5

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

Job 20:6

Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

Job 20:7

he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’

Job 21:11

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

Job 21:12

singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Psalms 49:19

he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.

Isaiah 21:3

Therefore 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.

Isaiah 21:4

My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.

Isaiah 24:7

The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.

Isaiah 24:8

The joyful tambourines have ceased; the noise of revelers has stopped; the joyful harp is silent.

Isaiah 24:9

They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.

Isaiah 24:10

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

Isaiah 24:11

In the streets they cry out for wine. All joy turns to gloom; rejoicing is exiled from the land.

Isaiah 24:12

The city is left in ruins; its gate is reduced to rubble.

Daniel 5:4

As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

Daniel 5:5

At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. As the king watched the hand that was writing,

Daniel 5:6

his face grew pale and his thoughts so alarmed him that his hips gave way and his knees knocked together.

Amos 8:10

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 a bitter day.

Nahum 1:10

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

Matthew 22:11

But when the king came in to see the guests, he spotted a man who was not dressed in wedding clothes.

Matthew 22:12

‘Friend,’ he asked, ‘how did you get in here without wedding clothes?’ But the man was speechless.

Matthew 22:13

Then the king told the servants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’

1 Thessalonians 5:3

While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

Revelation 18:7

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.’

Revelation 18:8

Therefore her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine— and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.”

Revelation 18:9

Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.

Revelation 18:10

In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”

Revelation 18:11

And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—