Luke 6:25

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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!

Cross References

Psalm 49:19

But we will each go down to our ancestors, never again to see the light of day.

Proverbs 14:13

Sorrow may hide behind laughter, and happiness may end in sorrow.

Proverbs 30:9

If I have too much to eat, I might forget about you; if I don't have enough, I might steal and disgrace your name.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

Laughing and having fun is mad. What good does it do?

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Choose sorrow over laughter because a sad face may hide a happy heart.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

Foolish laughter is stupid. It sounds like thorns crackling in a fire.

Isaiah 28:7

Priests and prophets stumble because they are drunk. Their minds are too confused to receive God's messages or give honest decisions.

Isaiah 65:13

I, the LORD God, will give food and drink to my servants, and they will celebrate. But all of you sinners will go hungry and thirsty, overcome with disgrace.

Isaiah 8:21

They will go around in great pain and will become so hungry that they will angrily curse their king and their gods. And when they try to find help in heaven

Isaiah 9:20

like wild animals attacking and eating everyone around them, even their own relatives. But still they were not satisfied.

Amos 8:10

Your festivals and joyful singing will turn into sorrow. You will wear sackcloth and shave your heads, as you would at the death of your only son. It will be a horrible day.

Nahum 1:10

They are like drunkards overcome by wine, or like dry thorn bushes burning in a fire.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, “You fool! Tonight you will die. Then who will get what you have stored up?”

Luke 13:28

Then when you have been thrown outside, you will weep and grit your teeth because you will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God's kingdom.

Luke 6:24

But you rich people are in for trouble. You have already had an easy life!

Luke 6:26

You are in for trouble when everyone says good things about you. That is what your own people said about those prophets who told lies.

Luke 8:53

The people laughed at him because they knew she was dead.

Ephesians 5:4

Don't use dirty or foolish or filthy words. Instead, say how thankful you are.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

People will think they are safe and secure. But destruction will suddenly strike them like the pains of a woman about to give birth. And they won't escape.

James 4:9

Be sad and sorry and weep. Stop laughing and start crying. Be gloomy instead of glad.

Revelation 3:17

You claim to be rich and successful and to have everything you need. But you don't know how badly off you are. You are pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

1 Samuel 2:5

People who once had plenty to eat must now hire themselves out for only a piece of bread. But you give the hungry more than enough to eat. A woman did not have a child, and you gave her seven, but a woman who had many was left with none.