Luke 6:25
Alas for you who are sated now, for you will hunger. Alas for you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
James 4:9
Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!
Matthew 22:11-13
But, when the king went in to see his guests, he noticed there a man who had not put on a wedding-robe.
Luke 8:53
They began to laugh at him, for they knew that she was dead.
Luke 12:20
But God said to the man 'Fool! This very night your life is being demanded; and as for all you have prepared--who will have it?'
Luke 13:28
There, there will be weeping and grinding of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the Prophets, in the Kingdom of God, while you yourselves are being driven outside.
Luke 16:14-15
All this was said within hearing of the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, and they began to sneer at Jesus.
Ephesians 5:4
Nor shameful conduct, nor foolish talk or jesting, for they are wholly out of place among you; but rather thanksgiving.
Philippians 4:12-13
I know how to face humble circumstances, and I know how to face prosperity. Into all and every human experience I have been initiated--into plenty and hunger, into prosperity and want.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
When people are saying 'All is quiet and safe,' it is then that, like birth-pains upon a woman with child, Ruin comes suddenly upon them, and there will be no escape!
Revelation 3:17
You say 'I am rich and have grown rich, and I want for nothing,' and you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, naked!
Revelation 18:7-11
for her self-glorification and her luxury, give her now an equal measure of torture and misery. In her heart she says 'I sit here a queen; no widow am I; I shall never know misery.'