Luke 6:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

Woe to you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.

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Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    Woe{G3759} unto you,{G5213} ye that are full{G1705} now! for{G3754} ye shall hunger.{G3983} Woe{G3759} [unto you],{G5213} ye that laugh{G1070} now!{G3568} for{G3754} ye shall mourn{G3996} and{G2532} weep.{G2799}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Woe{G3759} unto you{G5213} that are full{G1705}{(G5772)}! for{G3754} ye shall hunger{G3983}{(G5692)}. Woe{G3759} unto you{G5213} that laugh{G1070}{(G5723)} now{G3568}! for{G3754} ye shall mourn{G3996}{(G5692)} and{G2532} weep{G2799}{(G5692)}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Wo be to you yt are full: for ye shall honger. Wo be to you that now laugh: for ye shall wayle and wepe.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Wo vnto you that are full, for ye shal honger. Wo vnto you that laugh here, for ye shal wepe and wayle.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Wo be to you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Wo be to you that now laugh: for ye shal wayle and weepe.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Wo vnto you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Wo vnto you that nowe laugh: for ye shall wayle and weepe.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ‹Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.›

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Woe to you, you who are full now! For you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now! For you will mourn and weep.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `Wo to you who have been filled -- because ye shall hunger. `Wo to you who are laughing now -- because ye shall mourn and weep.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe `unto you', ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Woe unto you, ye that are full now! for ye shall hunger. Woe [unto you], ye that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Unhappy are you who are full of food now: for you will be in need. Unhappy are you who are laughing now: for you will be crying in sorrow.

  • World English Bible (2000)

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

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry.“Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 65:13 : 13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed;
  • Prov 14:13 : 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
  • Jas 4:9 : 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
  • Rev 3:17 : 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
  • Rev 18:7-9 : 7 As much as she has glorified herself, and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and sorrow: for she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. 8 Therefore her plagues shall come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judges her. 9 And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her, shall mourn and lament for her, when they see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing far off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour your judgment has come. 11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no one buys their merchandise any more:
  • Deut 6:11-12 : 11 And houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, and wells dug, which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you did not plant; when you have eaten and are full; 12 Then beware, lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
  • 1 Sam 2:5 : 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.
  • Job 20:5-7 : 5 That the triumph of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his greatness mounts up to the heavens, and his head reaches to the clouds, 7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, Where is he?
  • Job 21:11-13 : 11 They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice to the sound of the flute. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to the grave.
  • Ps 22:6-7 : 6 But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people. 7 All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
  • Ps 49:19 : 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I be full and deny You, and say, Who is the LORD? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
  • Eccl 2:2 : 2 I said of laughter, "It is madness," and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
  • Eccl 7:3 : 3 Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better.
  • Eccl 7:6 : 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.
  • Isa 8:21 : 21 And they shall pass through it, hard-pressed and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
  • Isa 9:20 : 20 And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand and not be satisfied; they will eat every man the flesh of his own arm.
  • Isa 21:3-4 : 3 Therefore my loins are filled with pain; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I was bent over when I heard it; I was dismayed when I saw it. 4 My heart pounded, fearfulness frightened me; the night that I delighted in has been turned into terror for me.
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. 10 The city of confusion is broken down; every house is shut up, that no one may come in. 11 There is a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone. 12 In the city is left desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
  • Isa 28:7 : 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
  • Dan 5:4-6 : 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, of brass, iron, wood, and stone. 5 In the same hour, fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king's face changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened, and his knees knocked against each other.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.
  • Matt 22:11-13 : 11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment. 12 And he said to him, Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
  • Luke 8:53 : 53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you; then whose shall those things be, which you have provided?
  • Luke 13:28 : 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
  • Luke 16:14-15 : 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they ridiculed him. 15 And he said to them, You are the ones who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for what is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
  • Eph 5:4 : 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse joking, which are not fitting: but rather giving of thanks.
  • Phil 4:12-13 : 12 I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
  • 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Luke 6:20-24
    5 verses
    86%

    20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed are you poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

    21 Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh.

    22 Blessed are you, when men shall hate you, and when they shall exclude you, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of Man's sake.

    23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in like manner did their fathers to the prophets.

    24 But woe to you that are rich! for you have received your consolation.

  • 26 Woe to you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

  • Jas 5:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 Come now, you rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that shall come upon you.

    2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

  • 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

  • 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice: and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy.

  • 4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

  • 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

  • Isa 5:21-22
    2 verses
    71%

    21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

    22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

  • Isa 65:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed;

    14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and wail for vexation of spirit.

  • 13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.

  • 23 But woe to those who are with child and to those who give suck in those days! For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

  • 17 And saying, We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned for you, and you have not lamented.

  • 32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace, and calling to one another, and saying, We have played the flute for you, and you have not danced; we have mourned to you, and you have not wept.

  • 17 But woe to those who are with child, and to those who nurse infants in those days!

  • 11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

  • 19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those nursing babies in those days!

  • 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.

  • 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

  • 1 Woe to those who are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, who are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

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    43 Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.

    44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.

  • 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.

  • 14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: therefore you shall receive greater condemnation.

  • 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.

  • 30 those who weep, as though they did not weep; those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; those who buy, as though they did not possess,

  • 7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

  • Mic 6:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword.

    15 You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; and crush grapes, but not drink the wine.

  • Matt 5:11-12
    2 verses
    68%

    11 Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

    12 Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

  • 5 Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread; and those who were hungry have ceased to hunger: so that the barren has borne seven; and she who has many children has become feeble.

  • 16 But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

  • 17 Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and do not know that you are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

  • 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have much goods laid up for many years; take your rest, eat, drink, and be merry.

  • 5 Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker, and he who is glad at calamity shall not go unpunished.

  • 5 You feed them with the bread of tears and give them tears to drink in great measure.

  • 24 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!

  • 21 Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

  • 15 And when one of them who sat at the table with him heard these things, he said to him, Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

  • 29 For indeed, the days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts which never nursed.