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 saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
• Jas 4:9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
• Luke 16:14–15And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
• Prov 14:13Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
• Rev 3:17Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
• Job 20:5–7That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
• Amos 8:10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
• Luke 8:53And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.
• Rev 18:7–11How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.
• 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 shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
• 1 Th 5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
• Ps 22:6–7But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
• Matt 22:11–13And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
• Phil 4:12–13I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
• Luke 12:20But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
• Isa 9:20And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
• Ps 49:19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
• Isa 28:7But 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 of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
• Eccl 7:3Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.
• Isa 8:21And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead 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.
• Eccl 2:2I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
• Isa 24:7–12The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh.
• Eph 5:4Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
• Prov 30:9Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
• Job 21:11–13They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
• Isa 21:3–4Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
• Eccl 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
• 1 Sam 2:5They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.
• Deut 6:11–12And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
• Nah 1:10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

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