Luke 6:26
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
Luke 6:26 in other translations
| BSB | Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers treated the false prophets in the same way. |
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| WEB | Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets. |
| ASV | Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for in the same manner did their fathers to the false prophets. |
| YLT | ‘Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you--for according to these things were their fathers doing to false prophets. |
| DARBY | Woe, when all men speak well of you, for after this manner did their fathers to the false prophets. |
| BBE | Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets. |
| Webster | Woe to you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. |
What does Luke 6:26 mean?
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Barnes' Notes
Who are rich. In this world's goods. They loved them; they had sought for them; they found their consolation in them. It implies, farther, that they would not seek or receive consolation from the gospel. They were proud, and would not seek it; satisfied, and did not desire it; filled with cares, and had no time or disposition to attend to it. All the consolation which they had reason to expect they had received. Alas! how poor and worthless is such consolation, compared with that which the gospel would give!
Woe unto you that are full! Not hungry. Satisfied with their wealth, and not feeling their need of anything better than earthly wealth can give. Many, alas! are thus full. They profess to be satisfied. They desire nothing but wealth, and a sufficiency to satisfy the wants of the body. They have no anxiety for the riches that shall endure for ever.
Ye shall hunger. Your property shall be taken away, or you shall see that it is of little value; and then you shall see the need of something better. You shall feel your want and wretchedness, and shall hunger for something to satisfy the desires of a dying, sinful soul.
That laugh now. Are happy, or thoughtless, or gay, or filled with levity.
Shall mourn and weep. The time is coming when you shall sorrow deeply. In sickness, in calamity, in the prospect of death, in the fear of eternity, your laughter shall be turned into sorrow. There is a place where you cannot laugh, and there you will see the folly of having passed the proper time of preparing for such scenes in levity and folly. Alas! how many thus spend their youth! and how many weep when it is too late! God gives them over, and laughs at THEIR calamity, and mocks when their fear comes, Prov 1:26. To be happy in such scenes, it is necessary to be sober, humble, pious in early life. Then we need not weep in the day of calamity; then there will be no terror in death; then there will be nothing to fear in the grave.
(d) "you that are rich", Hab 2.9, Jas 5:1 (e) "ye have received", Lk 16:25
Albert Barnes, 1834 · 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 6:26 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 6:26
- John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
- James 4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
- Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
- 1 John 4:5-6
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
- Micah 2:11
If a man walking in the spirit and falsehood do lie, saying, I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the prophet of this people.
- Isaiah 30:10
Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:
- 2 Peter 2:1-3
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.
- 2 Peter 2:18-19
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: …
- Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
- Romans 16:18
For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.
- John 7:7
The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.
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Context
- Luke 6:25
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
- Luke 6:26
Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
- Luke 6:27
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
Luke 6:26 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¡Ay de vosotros, cuando todos los hombres dijeren bien de vosotros! porque así hacían sus padres á los falsos profetas. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Malheur à vous quand tous les hommes diront du bien de vous, car leurs pères en ont fait de même aux faux prophètes. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wehe, wenn alle Menschen wohl von euch reden; denn desgleichen taten ihre Väter den falschen Propheten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Væ cum benedixerint vobis homines: secundum hæc enim faciebant pseudoprophetis patres eorum. |