Luke 6:26

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

Cross References

Proverbs 27:21

Gold and silver are tested in a red-hot furnace, but we are tested by praise.

Isaiah 30:10

and have said to his messengers and prophets: Don't tell us what God has shown you and don't preach the truth. Just say what we want to hear, even if it's false.

Jeremiah 5:31

Prophets give their messages in the name of a false god, my priests don't want to serve me, and you—my own people— like it this way! But on the day of disaster, where will you turn for help?

Micah 2:11

The only prophet you want is a liar who will say, “Drink and get drunk!”

Matthew 7:15

Watch out for false prophets! They dress up like sheep, but inside they are wolves who have come to attack you.

Luke 6:25

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!

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, its people would love you. But you don't belong to the world. I have chosen you to leave the world behind, and that is why its people hate you.

John 7:7

The people of this world cannot hate you. They hate me, because I tell them that they do evil things.

Romans 16:18

They want to serve themselves and not Christ the Lord. Their flattery and fancy talk fool people who don't know any better.

James 4:4

You people aren't faithful to God! Don't you know that if you love the world, you are God's enemies? And if you decide to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God.