Luke 6:23
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
Luke 6:23 in other translations
| BSB | Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For their fathers treated the prophets in the same way. |
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| WEB | Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets. |
| ASV | Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy: for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for in the same manner did their fathers unto the prophets. |
| YLT | rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward is great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets. |
| DARBY | rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets. |
| BBE | Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets. |
| Webster | Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers to the prophets. |
What does Luke 6:23 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Barnes' Notes
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 6:20-26
Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Mt 5; 7. But some think that this was preached at another time and place. All believers that take the precepts of the gospel to themselves, and live by them, may take the promises of the gospel to themselves, and live upon them. Woes are denounced against prosperous sinners as miserable people, though the world envies them. Those are blessed indeed…
Luke 6:23 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 6:23
- Acts 5:41
And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
- Revelation 21:7
He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
- Revelation 3:5
He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
- Revelation 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
- James 1:2
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
- Matthew 5:12
Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
- Revelation 2:26
And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
- 2 Chronicles 36:16
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
- Acts 3:8
And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
- Revelation 2:17
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
- Revelation 2:10-11
Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.
- 1 Peter 4:13
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ac 5:41; Ro 5:3; 2Co 12:10; Col 1:24; Jas 1:2
leap.
1:41,44; 2Sa 6:16; 6:16; Isa 35:6; Ac 3:8; 14:10
your.
35; Mt 5:12; 6:1,2; 2Th 1:5-7; 2Ti 2:12; 4:7,8; Heb 11:6,26; 1Pe 4:13
Re 2:7,10,11,17,26; 3:5,12; 21:7
for in.
1Ki 18:4; 19:2,10,14; 21:20; 22:8,27; 2Ki 6:31; 2Ch 36:16; Ne 9:26
Jer 2:30; Mt 21:35,36; 23:31-37; Ac 7:51,52; 1Th 2:14,15
Heb 11:32-39
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Context
- Luke 6:22
Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man’s sake.
- Luke 6:23
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
- Luke 6:24
But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
Luke 6:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Gozaos en aquel día, y alegraos; porque he aquí vuestro galardón es grande en los cielos; porque así hacían sus padres á los profetas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Réjouissez-vous en ce jour-là et tressaillez de joie, car voici, votre récompense est grande dans le ciel, car leurs pères en ont fait de même aux prophètes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | freuet euch an selbigem Tage und hüpfet, denn siehe, euer Lohn ist groß in dem Himmel; denn desgleichen taten ihre Väter den Propheten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Gaudete in illa die, et exsultate: ecce enim merces vestra multa est in cælo: secundum hæc enim faciebant prophetis patres eorum. |