Luke 6:25

Good News Translation (US Version)

“How terrible for you who are full now; you will go hungry! “How terrible for you who laugh now; you will mourn and weep!

Cross References

Isaiah 65:13

And so I tell you that those who worship and obey me will have plenty to eat and drink, but you will be hungry and thirsty. They will be happy, but you will be disgraced.

James 4:9

Be sorrowful, cry, and weep; change your laughter into crying, your joy into gloom!

Proverbs 14:13

Laughter may hide sadness. When happiness is gone, sorrow is always there.

Revelation 3:17

You say, ‘I am rich and well off; I have all I need.’ But you do not know how miserable and pitiful you are! You are poor, naked, and blind.

1 Thessalonians 5:3

When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.

Ephesians 5:4

Nor is it fitting for you to use language which is obscene, profane, or vulgar. Rather you should give thanks to God.

Luke 13:28

How you will cry and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out!

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will have to give up your life; then who will get all these things you have kept for yourself?’”

Luke 8:53

They all made fun of him, because they knew that she was dead.

Nahum 1:10

Like tangled thorns and dry straw you drunkards will be burned up!

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.

Isaiah 28:7

Even the prophets and the priests are so drunk that they stagger. They have drunk so much wine and liquor that they stumble in confusion. The prophets are too drunk to understand the visions that God sends, and the priests are too drunk to decide the cases that are brought to them.

Isaiah 9:20

Everywhere in the country people snatch and eat any bit of food they can find, but their hunger is never satisfied. They even eat their own children!

Isaiah 8:21

The people will wander through the land, discouraged and hungry. In their hunger and their anger they will curse their king and their God. They may look up to the sky

Ecclesiastes 7:6

When a fool laughs, it is like thorns crackling in a fire. It doesn't mean a thing.

Ecclesiastes 7:3

Sorrow is better than laughter; it may sadden your face, but it sharpens your understanding.

Ecclesiastes 2:2

I discovered that laughter is foolish, that pleasure does you no good.

Proverbs 30:9

If I have more, I might say that I do not need you. But if I am poor, I might steal and bring disgrace on my God.

Psalm 49:19

he will join all his ancestors in death, where the darkness lasts forever.

1 Samuel 2:5

The people who once were well fed now hire themselves out to get food, but the hungry are hungry no more. The childless wife has borne seven children, but the mother of many is left with none.

Luke 6:24

“But how terrible for you who are rich now; you have had your easy life!

Luke 6:26

“How terrible when all people speak well of you; their ancestors said the very same things about the false prophets.