KJV ORIGINAL
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
He fills up everyone who's been going without, giving them all the good stuff they need. But the people who already have everything? He sends them away with nothing.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
God's got a thing for flipping the script, the hungry get fed, the overstuffed get humbled.
📜 Historical Context — Why was this verse written?
The Gospel of Luke was written by an anonymous author, traditionally Luke, for Theophilus and a wider Gentile Christian audience around the late first century CE. It
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