Luke 6:23
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New International Version (©1984)
"Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because great is your reward in heaven. For that is how their fathers treated the prophets.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When that happens, be happy! Yes, leap for joy! For a great reward awaits you in heaven. And remember, their ancestors treated the ancient prophets that same way.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Be glad in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven. For in the same way their fathers used to treat the prophets.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

International Standard Version (©2008)
Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, because your reward in heaven is great! That's the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for your reward is great in Heaven, for so were their fathers doing to The Prophets.”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Rejoice then, and be very happy! You have a great reward in heaven. That's the way their ancestors treated the prophets.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

American King James Version
Rejoice you in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers to the prophets.

American Standard Version
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy : for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for in the same manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be 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.

Darby Bible Translation
rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in the heaven, for after this manner did their fathers act toward the prophets.

English Revised Version
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy: for behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the same manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Webster's Bible Translation
Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers to the prophets.

Weymouth New Testament
"Be glad at such a time, and dance for joy; for your reward is great in Heaven; for that is just the way their forefathers behaved to the Prophets!

World English Bible
Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for their fathers did the same thing to the prophets.

Young's Literal Translation
rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward is great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Did - unto the prophets - See 1 Kings 18:4; 1 Kings 19:20; 2 Chronicles 24:21; 2 Chronicles 36:16; Nehemiah 9:26.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Rejoice ye in that day,.... When they should be hated, discarded, reproached, and anathematized: and leap for joy; as if the greatest honour and happiness imaginable had been conferred on them; and as persons do, when in the greatest rapture:

for behold, your reward is great in heaven, for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets; See Gill on Matthew 5:12.

Vincent's Word Studies

Leap for joy (σκιρτήσατε)

See Luke 1:41, Luke 1:44. Compare Matthew, be exceeding glad (ἀγαλλιἄσθε: see on 1 Peter 1:6).

Their fathers

Peculiar to Luke.

Geneva Study Bible

Rejoice ye in that day, and {e} leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

(e) Leap for exceeding joy, as cattle do who are spurred on by food.

People's New Testament

6:20-23 Blessed. These beatitudes are given more fully in Mt 5:3-12, which see notes. Luke says kingdom of God; Matthew, of heaven, showing that the two are the same.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

23. leap for joy-a livelier word than "be exceeding glad" of "exult" (Mt 5:12).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:20-26 Here begins a discourse of Christ, most of which is also found in Mt 5; 7. 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!


2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked God's messengers, despised his words and scoffed at his prophets until the wrath of the LORD was aroused against his people and there was no remedy.
Psalm 58:11 Then men will say, "Surely the righteous still are rewarded; surely there is a God who judges the earth."
Malachi 4:1 "Surely the day is coming; it will burn like a furnace. All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and that day that is coming will set them on fire," says the LORD Almighty. "Not a root or a branch will be left to them.
Acts 7:52 Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even killed those who predicted the coming of the Righteous One. And now you have betrayed and murdered him--

Act Blessed Evil Exclude Fathers Great Hate Heaven Insult Joy Leap Manner Names Prophets Rejoice Reward Sake Society Spurn Treated Used

Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Rejoice. Ac 5:41 Ro 5:3 2Co 12:10 Col 1:24 Jas 1:2

leap. 1:41,44 2Sa 6:16 6:16 Isa 35:6 Ac 3:8 14:10

your. 35 Mt 5:12 6:1,2 2Th 1:5-7 2Ti 2:12 4:7,8 Heb 11:6,26 1Pe 4:13 Re 2:7,10,11,17,26 3:5,12 21:7

for in. 1Ki 18:4 19:2,10,14 21:20 22:8,27 2Ki 6:31 2Ch 36:16 Ne 9:26 Jer 2:30 Mt 21:35,36 23:31-37 Ac 7:51,52 1Th 2:14,15 Heb 11:32-39

Luke Chapter 6 Verse 23

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