“Blessed are you who are poor,
    God’s Kingdom is yours.
²¹ Blessed are you who hunger now,
    for you will be filled.
Blessed are you who weep now,
    for you will laugh.
²² Blessed are you when men hate you, and when they exclude and mock you, and throw out your name as evil, for the Son of Man’s sake.
²³     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.

²⁴ “But woe to you who are rich!
    For you have received your consolation.
²⁵ Woe to you, you who are full now,
    for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
    for you will mourn and weep.
²⁶ Woe,^[a] when^[b] men speak well of you,
    for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.