Luke 6:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Luke 6:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luke 6:21 That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed...

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• Luke 6:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Sermon on the Level Place. This is much briefer than Matthew 5-7. The sections in Mt. that illustrate the fulfilment of the Law are omitted; more stress is laid on love and mercy. Other paralle...

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• Luke 6:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  are full . have been filled.

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• Luke 6:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  25. Woe to you who are filled. Woe to you who laugh now In the same sense, he pronounces a curse on those who are satiated and full: because they are lifted up by confidence in the blessi...

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• Luke 6:25 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1495 TRUE HAPPINESS STATED Luke 6:20-26 . And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are ye that hunger now: fo...

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• Luke 6:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Luke 6:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Woe unto you that laugh now!— Our Lord's malediction is not inconsistent with the apostle's precepts which command Christians always to rejoice; neither is the mirth, against which the woe is her...

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• Luke 6:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger - your inward craving strong as ever...

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• Luke 6:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Choice of the Twelve. Sermon in the Plain 1-5. Plucking the ears of corn ( Matthew 12:1 ; Mark 2:23 ). See on Mt and Mk.

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• Luke 6:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Woe unto you that are full! — The fulness is, as the context shows, that of the satiety of over-indulgence. The word is closely connected with that fulness (rather than “satisfying”) of the flesh...

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• Luke 6:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 15 THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IN considering the words of Jesus, if we may not be able to measure their depth or to scale their height, we can with absolute certainty discover their drift, and s...

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• Luke 6:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  New Leaders and New Principles Luke 6:12-26 There are three circles here: First, Christ and His Apostles-the men who were to be sent into all the world to preach the gospel and to lay the fou...

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• Luke 6:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In a synagogue our Lord healed the man with a withered hand, and the religious watchers were filled with anger because, according to their view, our Lord had desecrated the Sabbath. Surely, there is...

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• Luke 6:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (20) And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor; for your's is the kingdom of God. (21) Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep...

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• Luke 6:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Woe unto you that are full ,.... Not so much with the plenty and affluence of the things of this life, as of themselves, and their own righteousness, and so with conceit, vanity, and pride, and have...

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• Luke 6:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep. Ver. 25. Woe unto you that laugh now ] Worldlings' jollity is but as a book fairly bound...

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• Luke 6:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  But wo , &c. Here we see that this discourse differs very materially from the sermon on the mount; there our Lord pronounced blessings only, here he denounces curses; or, to speak more prope...

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• Luke 6:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  LORD OF THE SABBATH (vs.1-11) "The second Sabbath after the first" is literally translated the "second-first Sabbath" (JND trans.), an unusual expression. The first Sabbath was that following the...

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• Luke 6:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Blessings and Woes.       20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God....

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• Luke 6:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Our Saviour must be understood, either of those who are sinfully full, or at least such as are spiritually empty; those that are full are opposed to those that hunger. If we take hunger for a hunge...

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• Luke 6:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Blessings and Woes On Israel (6:20-26). ‘And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, a Blessed are you poor, for yours is the Kingly Rule of God ( Luke 6:20 ). b Blessed are you who hu...

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• Luke 6:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Luke 6:20-49 .—Though various opinions have been held on the subject, the balance of probabilities seems in favour of the supposition that the discourse commonly known as the Sermo...

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• Luke 6:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Luke 6:1 . On the second sabbath after the first. The Hebrew law is, Leviticus 23:11 , on the morrow after the sabbath, the priest shall wave the sheaf east and west, north and south, to denote t...

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• Luke 6:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Luke 6:1-42 The Lord ' s teaching on the question of the observance of the sabbath. Luke 6:1 And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first . The expression...

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• Luke 6:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  A threefold woe:

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• Luke 6:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 2:5 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:3 ; Amos 8:10 ; Daniel 5:4-6 ; Deuteronomy 6:11 ; Deuteronomy 6:12 ; Ecclesiastes 2:2 ; Ecclesiastes 7:3 ; Ecclesiastes 7:6 ; Ephesians 5:4 ; Isaiah 21:3 ;...

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• Luke 6:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Full — Of meat and drink, and worldly goods. That laugh — That are of a light trifling spirit.

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