Luke 6:25

Jesus warns the full and the laughing of coming hunger and grief. Present worldly satisfaction apart from God ends in loss.

Cross-references · 31

• Isa 65:13Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed;
• Jas 4:9Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
• Luke 16:14–15The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
• Prov 14:13Even in laughter the heart may be sorrowful, and mirth may end in heaviness.
• Rev 3:17Because you say, ‘I am rich, and have gotten riches, and have need of nothing;’ and don’t know that you are the wretched one, miserable, poor, blind, and naked;
• Job 20:5–7that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
• Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
• Luke 8:53They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
• Rev 18:7–11However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’
• Dan 5:4–6They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
• Luke 13:28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.
• 1 Th 5:3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
• Ps 22:6–7But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.
• Matt 22:11–13But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who didn’t have on wedding clothing,
• Phil 4:12–13I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.
• Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’
• Isa 9:20One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:
• Ps 49:19he shall go to the generation of his fathers. They shall never see the light.
• Isa 28:7They also reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink. The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink. They are swallowed up by wine. They stagger with strong drink. They err in vision. They stumble in judgment.
• Eccl 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the face the heart is made good.
• Isa 8:21They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry; and it will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse by their king and by their God. They will turn their faces upward,
• Eccl 2:2I said of laughter, “It is foolishness”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
• Isa 24:7–12The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh.
• Eph 5:4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
• Prov 30:9lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
• Job 21:11–13They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
• Isa 21:3–4Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have taken hold on me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.
• Eccl 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
• 1 Sam 2:5Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread. Those who were hungry are satisfied. Yes, the barren has borne seven. She who has many children languishes.
• Deut 6:11–12and houses full of all good things, which you didn’t fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn’t dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn’t plant, and you shall eat and be full;
• Nah 1:10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

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