Luke 6:21

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Cross References

Genesis 17:17

Then Abraham fell on his face and laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?”

Genesis 21:6

Now Sarah said, “God has brought laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Psalm 107:9

For he satisfies the thirsty, and the hungry he fills with good things.

Psalm 119:136

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

Psalm 143:6

I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

Psalm 17:15

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake I shall be satisfied, beholding your likeness.

Psalm 28:7

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts; so I am helped, and my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Psalm 65:4

Happy are those whom you choose and bring near to live in your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

Isaiah 25:6

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food filled with marrow, of well-aged wines strained clear.

Isaiah 30:19

O people in Zion, inhabitants of Jerusalem, you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.

Isaiah 66:10

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

Jeremiah 13:17

But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 31:25

I will satisfy the weary, and all who are faint I will replenish.

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back; I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path where they shall not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 9:1

O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Ezekiel 7:16

If any survivors escape, they shall be found on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning over their iniquity.

Ezekiel 9:4

and said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

Matthew 5:4

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

Matthew 5:6

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Luke 1:53

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

Luke 6:20

Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Luke 6:22

“Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man.

Luke 6:25

“Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. “Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep.

John 11:35

Jesus began to weep.

John 4:10

Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that 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 be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

1 Corinthians 4:11

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, we are naked and beaten and homeless,

2 Corinthians 11:27

in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food, cold and naked.

2 Corinthians 12:10

Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

James 1:12

Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

Revelation 21:3

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “See, the home of God is among mortals. He will dwell with them; they will be his peoples, and God himself will be with them and be their God;

Revelation 7:16

They will hunger no more and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat,