Luke Chapter 6 verse 24 Holy Bible
But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
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But unhappy are you who have wealth: for you have been comforted now.
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But woe to you rich, for ye have received your consolation.
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But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
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"But woe to you who are rich! For you have received your consolation.
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`But wo to you -- the rich, because ye have got your comfort.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation. These "rich" referred to here signify men of good social position. These, as a class, opposed Jesus with a bitter and unreasoning opposition. Again the same warning cry to the so-called fortunate ones of this world is re-echoed with greater force in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. "Thou in thy lifetime," said Abraham, speaking from Paradise to the poor lost Dives, "receivedst thy good things;" and yet the very characters represented in that most awful of the parable-stories of the pitiful Lord correct any false notion which, from words like these, men may entertain respecting the condemnation of the rich and great because they are rich and great. Abraham, who speaks the grave stern words, was himself a sheik of great power and consideration, and at the same time very rich. Prophets and apostles, as well as the Son of God, never ceased to warn men of the danger of misusing wealth and power; but at the same time they always represented these dangerous gifts as gifts from God, capable of a noble use, and, if nobly used, these teachers sent by God pointed out, these gifts would bring to the men who so used them a proportional reward.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) But woe unto you that are rich!--Better, woe for you, the tone being, as sometimes (though, as Matthew 23 shows, not uniformly) with this expression, one of pity rather than denunciation. (Comp. Matthew 23:13; Mark 13:17; Luke 21:23.) We enter here on what is a distinct feature of the Sermon on the Plain--the woes that, as it were, balance the beatitudes. It obviously lay in St. Luke's purpose, as a physician of the soul, to treasure up and record all our Lord's warnings against the perilous temptations that wealth brings with it. The truth thus stated in its naked awfulness is reproduced afterwards in the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19).Ye have received your consolation.--Better, simply, ye have your consolation--i.e., all that you understand or care for, all, therefore, that you can have. The thought appears again in the words of Abraham, "Thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things" (Luke 16:25). The verb is the same as in "they have their reward," in Matthew 6:2; Matthew 6:5. . . .
