Luke 6:25

God's Word

How horrible it will be for those who are well-fed. They will be hungry. How horrible it will be for those who are laughing. They will mourn and cry.

Cross References

Isaiah 65:13

This is what the Lord God says: My servants will eat, but you will be hungry. My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. My servants will be glad, but you will be ashamed.

James 4:9

Be miserable, mourn, and cry. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into gloom.

Proverbs 14:13

Even while laughing a heart can ache, and joy can end in grief.

Revelation 3:17

You say, ‘I’m rich. I’m wealthy. I don’t need anything.’ Yet, you do not realize that you are miserable, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.

Ephesians 5:4

It’s not right that dirty stories, foolish talk, or obscene jokes should be mentioned among you either. Instead, give thanks ⌞to God⌟.

Luke 13:28

Then you will cry and be in extreme pain. That’s what you’ll do when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets. They’ll be in God’s kingdom, but you’ll be thrown out.

Luke 12:20

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! I will demand your life from you tonight! Now who will get what you’ve accumulated?’

Luke 8:53

They laughed at him because they knew she was dead.

Nahum 1:10

⌞The people of Nineveh will be⌟ like tangled thorns and like people drunk on their own drink. They will be completely burned up like very dry straw.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals and all your songs into funeral songs. I will put sackcloth around everyone’s waist and shave everyone’s head. I will make that day seem like a funeral for an only child, and its end will be bitter.

Isaiah 28:7

Priests and prophets stagger from wine and wobble from too much liquor. They stagger from too much liquor and become confused from too much wine. They wobble because of their liquor. They stagger when they see visions. They swerve as they judge.

Isaiah 9:20

On the right, one gobbles up food and is still hungry. On the left, another eats and is never full. Each person eats the flesh from his own arm.

Isaiah 8:21

They will pass through the land when they are hard-pressed and hungry. When they are hungry, they will be furious. Then they will look up, cursing their king and God.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

The laughter of a fool is like the crackling of thorns burning under a pot. Even this is pointless.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter because, in spite of a sad face, the heart can be joyful.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I thought, “Laughter doesn’t make any sense. What does pleasure accomplish?”

Proverbs 30:9

or I may feel satisfied and deny you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ or I may become poor and steal and give the name of my God a bad reputation.

Psalm 49:19

he must join the generation of his ancestors, who will never see light ⌞again⌟.

1 Samuel 2:5

Those who were well-fed hire themselves out for a piece of bread, but those who were hungry hunger no more. Even the woman who was childless gives birth to seven children, but the mother of many children grieves all alone.

Luke 6:24

“But how horrible it will be for those who are rich. They have had their comfort.

Luke 6:26

How horrible it will be for you when everyone says nice things about you. That’s the way their ancestors treated the false prophets.