Luke 6:24
Good News Translation
"But how terrible for you who are rich now; you have had your easy life!

New Revised Standard Version
“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.

Contemporary English Version
But you rich people are in for trouble. You have already had an easy life!

New American Bible
But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation.

woe.

Luke 12:15-21 And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth. . . .

Luke 18:23-25 He having heard these things, became sorrowful: for he was very rich. . . .

Job 21:7-15 Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? . . .

Psalm 49:6,7,16-19 They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches, . . .

Psalm 73:3-12 Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners. . . .

Proverbs 1:32 But he that shall hear me, shall rest without terror, and shall enjoy abundance, without fear of evils.

Jeremiah 5:4-6 But I said: Perhaps these are poor and foolish, that know not the way of the Lord, the judgment of their God. . . .

Amos 4:1-3 Hear this word, ye fat kine that are in the mountains of Samaria: you that oppress the needy, and crush the poor: that say to your masters: Bring, and we will drink. . . .

Amos 6:1-6 Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the people, that go in with state into the house of Israel. . . .

Haggai 2:9 Great shall be the glory of this last house more than of the first, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place I will give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)

James 2:6 But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? And do not they draw you before the judgment seats?

James 5:1-6 Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you. . . .

Revelation 18:6-8 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double, according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double unto her. . . .

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Luke 16:19-25 There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. . . .

Matthew 6:2,5,16 Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward. . . .

Context
Woes
23Be glad in that day and rejoice: for behold, your reward is great in heaven, For according to these things did their fathers to the prophets. 24But woe to you that are rich: for you have your consolation. 25Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.…
Cross References
Amos 6:1
Woe to you that are wealthy in Sion, and to you that have confidence in the mountain of Samaria: ye great men, heads of the people, that go in with state into the house of Israel.

Matthew 6:2
Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:5
And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Luke 6:25
Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep.

Luke 16:25
And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.

James 5:1
Go to now, ye rich men: weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

Luke 6:23
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