Luke 6:26
Good News Translation
"How terrible when all people speak well of you; their ancestors said the very same things about the false prophets.

New Revised Standard Version
“Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.

Contemporary English Version
You are in for trouble when everyone says good things about you. That is what your own people said about those prophets who told lies.

New American Bible
Woe to you when all speak well of you, for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets.

when.

Micah 2:11 Arise ye, and depart, for there is no rest here for you. For that uncleanness of the land, it shall be corrupted with a grievous corruption.

John 7:7 The world cannot hate you: but me it hateth, because I give testimony of it, that the works thereof are evil,

John 15:19 If you had been of the world, the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

Romans 16:18 For they that are such serve not Christ our Lord but their own belly: and by pleasing speeches and good words seduce the hearts of the innocent.

2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: him . . .

James 4:4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world becometh an enemy of God.

2 Peter 2:18,19 For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error: . . .

1 John 4:5,6 They are of the world. Therefore of the world they speak: and the world heareth them. . . .

Revelation 13:3,4 And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death's wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast. . . .

so.

1 Kings 22:6-8,13,14,24-28 Then the king of Israel assembled the prophets, about four hundred men, and he said to them: Shall I go to Ramoth Galaad to fight, or shall I forbear? They answered: Go up, and the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king. . . .

Isaiah 30:10 Who say to the seers: See not: and to them that behold: Behold not for us those things that are right: speak unto us pleasant things, see errors for us.

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?

2 Peter 2:1-3 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. . . .

Context
Woes
25Woe to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Woe to you that now laugh: for you shall mourn and weep. 26Woe to you when men shall bless you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets. 27But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies. Do good to them that hate you.…
Cross References
Proverbs 27:21
As silver is tried in the fining-pot, and gold in the furnace: so a man is tried by the mouth of him that praiseth. The heart of the wicked seeketh after evils, but the righteous heart seeketh after knowledge.

Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

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 6:25
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