26 Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

Other Translations of Luke 6:26

King James Version

26 Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

English Standard Version

26 "Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

The Message

26 "There's trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not truth contests - look how many scoundrel preachers were approved by your ancestors! Your task is to be true, not popular.

New King James Version

26 Woe to you when all men speak well of you, For so did their fathers to the false prophets.

New Living Translation

26 What sorrow awaits you who are praised by the crowds, for their ancestors also praised false prophets.

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 6:26

Commentary on Luke 6:20-26

(Read Luke 6:20-26)

Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Matthew 5. 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 whom Christ blesses, but those must be dreadfully miserable who fall under his woe and curse! What a vast advantage will the saint have over the sinner in the other world! and what a wide difference will there be in their rewards, how much soever the sinner may prosper, and the saint be afflicted here!