Luke 6:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Blessed are you who are now hungry, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who are now weeping, for you will laugh.

Cross References

Genesis 17:17

Abraham fell face down and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at ninety?”

Genesis 21:6

Sarah then said, “God has given me cause to laugh, and all who hear of it will laugh with me.

Psalm 107:9

For he satisfied the thirsty, filled the hungry with good things.

Psalm 119:136

My eyes shed streams of tears because your law is not observed.

Psalm 143:6

I stretch out my hands toward you, my soul to you like a parched land. Selah

Psalm 17:15

I am just—let me see your face; when I awake, let me be filled with your presence.

Psalm 28:7

The Lord is my strength and my shield, in whom my heart trusts. I am helped, so my heart rejoices; with my song I praise him.

Psalm 65:4

with its burden of wicked deeds. We are overcome by our sins; only you can pardon them.

Isaiah 25:6

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples A feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.

Isaiah 30:19

Yes, people of Zion, dwelling in Jerusalem, you shall no longer weep; He will be most gracious to you when you cry out; as soon as he hears he will answer you.

Isaiah 66:10

Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her, all you who love her; Rejoice with her in her joy, all you who mourn over her—

Jeremiah 13:17

If you do not listen to this in your pride, I will weep many tears in secret; My eyes will run with tears for the Lord’s flock, led away to exile.

Jeremiah 31:25

For I will slake the thirst of the faint; the appetite of all the weary I will satisfy.

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, but with compassion I will guide them; I will lead them to streams of water, on a level road, without stumbling. For I am a father to Israel, Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that I had in the wilderness a travelers’ lodging! That I might leave my people and depart from them. They are all adulterers, a band of traitors.

Ezekiel 7:16

If their survivors flee, they will die on the mountains, moaning like doves of the valley on account of their guilt.

Ezekiel 9:4

and the Lord said to him: Pass through the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and mark an X on the foreheads of those who grieve and lament over all the abominations practiced within it.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

Luke 1:53

The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty.

Luke 6:20

And raising his eyes toward his disciples he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for the kingdom of God is yours.

Luke 6:22

Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude and insult you, and denounce your name as evil on account of the Son of Man.

Luke 6:25

But woe to you who are filled now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will grieve and weep.

John 11:35

And Jesus wept.

John 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

John 6:35

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.

1 Corinthians 4:11

To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clad and roughly treated, we wander about homeless

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and hardship, through many sleepless nights, through hunger and thirst, through frequent fastings, through cold and exposure.

2 Corinthians 12:10

Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong. Selfless Concern for the Church.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing and yet possessing all things.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who perseveres in temptation, for when he has been proved he will receive the crown of life that he promised to those who love him.

Revelation 21:3

I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race. He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will always be with them [as their God].

Revelation 7:16

They will not hunger or thirst anymore, nor will the sun or any heat strike them.