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20 And solemnly lifting up His eyes on His disciples, He said: Blessed (happy—[a]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and [b]to be envied) are you poor and [c]lowly and afflicted (destitute of wealth, influence, position, and honor), for the kingdom of God is yours!

21 Blessed (happy—[d]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and [e]to be envied) are you who hunger and seek with eager desire now, for you shall be filled and completely satisfied! Blessed (happy—[f]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and [g]to be envied) are you who weep and sob now, for you shall laugh!

22 Blessed (happy—[h]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and [i]to be envied) are you when people despise (hate) you, and when they exclude and excommunicate you [as disreputable] and revile and denounce you and defame and cast out and spurn your name as evil (wicked) on account of the Son of Man.

23 Rejoice and be glad at such a time and exult and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is rich and great and strong and intense and abundant in heaven; for even so their forefathers treated the prophets.

24 But woe to (alas for) you who are rich ([j]abounding in material resources), for you already are receiving your consolation (the solace and sense of strengthening and cheer that come from prosperity) and have taken and enjoyed your comfort in full [having nothing left to be awarded you].

25 Woe to (alas for) you who are full now (completely filled, luxuriously gorged and satiated), for you shall hunger and suffer want! Woe to (alas for) you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep and wail!

26 Woe to (alas for) you when everyone speaks fairly and handsomely of you and praises you, for even so their forefathers did to the false prophets.

27 But I say to you who are listening now to Me: [[k]in order to heed, make it a practice to] love your enemies, treat well (do good to, act nobly toward) those who detest you and pursue you with hatred,

28 Invoke blessings upon and pray for the happiness of those who curse you, implore God’s blessing (favor) upon those who abuse you [who revile, reproach, disparage, and high-handedly misuse you].

29 To the one who strikes you on the [l]jaw or cheek, offer the other [m]jaw or cheek also; and from him who takes away your outer garment, do not withhold your undergarment as well.

30 Give away to everyone who begs of you [who is [n]in want of necessities], and of him who takes away from you your goods, do not demand or require them back again.

31 And as you would like and desire that men would do to you, do exactly so to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 6:20 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  2. Luke 6:20 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
  3. Luke 6:20 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  4. Luke 6:21 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  5. Luke 6:21 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
  6. Luke 6:21 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  7. Luke 6:21 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
  8. Luke 6:22 Hermann Cremer, Biblico-Theological Lexicon.
  9. Luke 6:22 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
  10. Luke 6:24 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  11. Luke 6:27 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
  12. Luke 6:29 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  13. Luke 6:29 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  14. Luke 6:30 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.

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