Luke 6:26 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁶ It is too bad for you people when everyone speaks well about you, because the forefathers said the same thing about the false prophets.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Woe to (alas for) you when everyone speaks fairly and handsomely of you and praises you, for even so their forefathers did to the false prophets.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets.

Common English Bible

²⁶ How terrible for you when all speak well of you. Their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Woe to you when men will have blessed you. For these same things their fathers did to the false prophets.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Luke 6:26 Cross References

Matthew 7:15

“Look out for deceiving prophets, who approach you wearing sheep’s clothing, but who are [actually] starving wolves in their hearts.

Luke 6:25

It is too bad for you people who have plenty to eat now, because you will be hungry [later on]. It is too bad for you people who are laughing now, because you will grieve and cry [later on].

John 15:19

Remember what I said to you, ‘A slave is not greater [in importance] than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will [also] persecute you, too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also.

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about its deeds, that they are evil.

Romans 16:18

For such men are not serving our Lord Christ but their own [unspiritual] appetites. They are deceiving the minds of innocent people by their smooth talk and flattering words.

James 4:4

You people who have become unfaithful to God, do you not know that being [intimate] friends with the world [of sin] means hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever determines to be an [intimate] friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.