Luke 6:24

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

But wo be to you that are ryche: for ye have therin youre consolacion.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πλὴν οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς πλουσίοις! ὅτι ἀπέχετε τὴν παράκλησιν ὑμῶν.

Transliteration

Plēn ouai to you the plousiois! hoti you apechete the paraklēsin of you.

Grammar Details

• *Plēn*: conjunction/adverb - but/however/nevertheless
• *ouai*: interjection - woe/alas
• *plousiois*: adjective used as noun, dative, masculine, plural - to the rich (ones)
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for/that
• *apechete*: verb, present active, 2nd person plural - you have in full/receive fully
• *paraklēsin*: noun, accusative, feminine, singular - comfort/consolation

Word Meanings

• *Plēn*: but/however/nevertheless/in contrast
• *ouai*: woe/alas/grief (expression of doom or judgment)
• *plousiois*: rich ones/wealthy people
• *apechete*: have in full/receive completely/have already received
• *paraklēsin*: comfort/consolation/encouragement

Referenced Verses

• Matt 6:2 : 2 Whe soever therfore thou gevest thine almes thou shalt not make a tropet to be blowe before the as ye ypocrites do in the synagogis and in the stretis for to be preysed of men. Verely I say vnto you they have their rewarde.
• Matt 6:5 : 5 And when thou prayest thou shalt not be as ye ypocrytes are. For they love to stond and praye in the synagoges and in the corners of ye stretes because they wolde be sene of men. Verely I saye vnto you they haue their rewarde.
• Matt 6:16 : 16 Moreoure when ye faste be not sad as ye ypocrytes are. For they disfigure their faces that they myght be sene of me how they faste. Verely I say vnto you they have their rewarde.
• Luke 12:15-21 : 15 Wherfore he sayde vnto them: take hede and beware of covetousnes. For no mannes lyfe stondeth in the aboundaunce of the thinges which he possesseth. 16 And he put forth a similitude vnto them sayinge: The groude of a certayne riche ma brought forth frutes plenteously 17 and he thought in himsilfe sayinge: what shall I do? because I have noo roume where to bestowe my frutes? 18 And he sayde: This will I do. I will destroye my barnes and bilde greater and therin will I gadder all my frutes and my goodes: 19 and I will saye to my soule: Soule thou hast moch goodes layde vp in stoore for many yeares take thyne ease: eate drinke and be mery. 20 But God sayde vnto him: Thou fole this night will they fetche awaye thy soule agayne from the. Then whose shall thoose thinges be which thou hast provyded? 21 So is it with him that gadereth ryches and is not ryche in God.
• Luke 16:19-25 : 19 Ther was a certayne ryche man which was clothed in purple and fyne bysse and fared deliciously every daye. 20 And ther was a certayne begger named Lazarus whiche laye at his gate full of soores 21 desyringe to be refresshed with the cromes whiche fell from the ryche manes borde. Neverthelesse the dogges came and licked his soores. 22 And yt fortuned that the begger dyed and was caried by the angelles into Abrahas bosome. The riche man also died and was buried. 23 And beinge in hell in tormetes he lyfte vp his eyes and sawe Abraham a farre of and Lazarus in his bosome 24 and he cryed and sayd: father Abraham have mercy on me and sende Lazarus that he maye dippe the tippe of his fynger in water and cole my tonge: for I am tourmented in this flame. 25 But Abraha sayd vnto him Sonne remembre that thou in thy lyfe tyme receavedst thy pleasure and contrary wyse Lazarus payne. Now therfore is he comforted and thou art punysshed.
• Luke 18:23-25 : 23 When he heard that he was hevy: for he was very ryche. 24 When Iesus sawe him morne he sayde: with what difficulte shall they that have ryches enter into the kyngdome of God: 25 it is easyer for a camell to goo thorow a nedles eye then for a ryche man to enter into the kyngdome of God.
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge them that are ryche in this worlde that they be not excedynge wyse and that they trust not in the vncertayne ryches but in the livynge god which geveth vs aboundantly all thynges to enioye them
• Jas 2:6 : 6 But ye have despised the poore. Are not the rych they which opresse you: and they which drawe you before iudges?
• Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Goo to now ye ryche men. Wepe and howle on youre wretchednes that shall come apon you. 2 Youre ryches is corrupte youre garmentes are motheaten. 3 Youre golde and youre silver are cankred and the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you and shall eate youre flesshe as it were fyre. Ye have heaped treasure togedder in youre last dayes: 4 Beholde the hyre of ye labourers which have reped doune youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and ye cryes of them which have reped are entred into the eares of the LORde Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the erth and in wantannes. Ye have norysshed youre hertes as in a daye of slaughter. 6 Ye have condempned and have killed the iust and he hath not resisted you.
• Rev 18:6-8 : 6 Rewarde her even as she rewarded you and geve her dubble accordynge to her workes. And poure in dubble to her in the same cuppe which she fylled vnto you. 7 And as moche as she gloryfied her silfe and lyved wantanly so moche poure ye in for her of punysshment and sorowe for she sayde in her herte: I sytt beinge a quene and am no wyddowe and shall se no sorowe. 8 Therfore shall her plages come at one daye deeth and sorowe and honger and she shallbe brent with fyre: for stronge ys the LORde god which iudgeth her.