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Luke 6:23

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.

KJV

χάρητε ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ καὶ σκιρτήσατε, ἰδοὺ γὰρ ὁ μισθὸς ὑμῶν πολὺς ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ· κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ γὰρ ἐποίουν τοῖς προφήταις οἱ πατέρες αὐτῶν.

Greek NT

Gaudete in illa die, et exsultate : ecce enim merces vestra multa est in cælo : secundum hæc enim faciebant prophetis patres eorum.

Vulgate

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.

ASV

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.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
μισθός
misthos
noun · 29×
οὐρανός
ouranos
noun · 274×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
πολύς
polus
adjective · 412×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
σκιρτάω
skirtao
verb · 3×
χαίρω
chairo
verb · 74×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἡμέρα
emera
noun · 388×
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: τὰ αὐτὰ | WH/Treg/NIV: τὰ αὐτὰ | RP: ταῦτα
  • τὰ αὐτὰSBLGNT
  • τὰ αὐτὰWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ταῦταRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…

Cross-references

  • 2Chr 36:16 — But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
  • 2Cor 4:17 — For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
  • Acts 3:8 — And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
  • Acts 3:8 — And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
  • Acts 5:41 — And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.
  • Jas 1:2 — My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
  • Jas 5:10 — Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
  • Matt 5:12 — Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
  • Matt 5:12 — Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
  • Rev 2:10 — Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and
  • Rev 2:26 — And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:
  • Rev 3:5 — He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.
  • Rev 3:12 — Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem,
  • Rev 21:7 — He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.