the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Matthew 5:6
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Great blessings belong to those who want to do right more than anything else. God will fully satisfy them.
Blessed are they which honger and thurst for rightewesnes: for they shalbe filled.
"How blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness,justice">[fn]Isaiah 55:1; 65:13;">[xr] for it is they who will be satisfied!
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
They are blessed who hunger and thirst after justice, for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are those that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed [are] they who hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be filled.
"Blessed [joyful, nourished by God's goodness] are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness [those who actively seek right standing with God], for they will be [completely] satisfied.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Happy are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be satisfied.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied.
Blessid ben thei that hungren and thristen riytwisnesse, for thei schulen be fulfillid.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
God blesses those people who want to obey him more than to eat or drink. They will be given what they want!
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.
"How blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness! for they will be filled.
Blessed they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for *they* shall be filled.
Blessed they who hunger and thirst unto righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be satiated!
Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.
God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.
Those who are hungry and thirsty to be right with God are happy, because they will be filled.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousnes: for they shalbe filled.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be well satisfied.
Happy, they who hunger and thirst for righteousness; for, they, shall be filled:
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed (are) they, which do hunger and thirste (after) righteousnes: for they shalbe satisfied.
"Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires; God will satisfy them fully!
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, For they shall be filled.
Blessed are the ones who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be satisfied.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.
`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.
Blessed are they which honger & thyrst for rightewesnes: for they shalbe filled.
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be satisfied.
"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.
God takes mighty good care of those who would rather do what he says than eat or drink, for one day they will never be hungry or thirsty again.
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
are: Psalms 42:1, Psalms 42:2, Psalms 63:1, Psalms 63:2, Psalms 84:2, Psalms 107:9, Amos 8:11-13, Luke 1:53, Luke 6:21, Luke 6:25, John 6:27
for: Psalms 4:6, Psalms 4:7, Psalms 17:15, Psalms 63:5, Psalms 65:4, Psalms 145:19, Song of Solomon 5:1, Isaiah 25:6, Isaiah 41:17, Isaiah 44:3, Isaiah 49:9, Isaiah 49:10, Isaiah 55:1-3, Isaiah 65:13, Isaiah 66:11, John 4:14, John 6:48-58, John 7:37, Revelation 7:16
Reciprocal: Psalms 36:8 - abundantly Psalms 132:15 - I will satisfy Proverbs 10:24 - the desire Proverbs 11:23 - desire Proverbs 19:23 - shall abide Proverbs 21:21 - that Ecclesiastes 1:8 - the eye Isaiah 51:1 - ye that follow Jeremiah 31:14 - my people Jeremiah 31:25 - General Matthew 6:33 - his Matthew 14:20 - were Romans 7:24 - wretched 1 Corinthians 12:31 - covet Galatians 5:17 - so Ephesians 3:19 - that ye Revelation 22:11 - and he that
Cross-References
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord .
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst,.... Not after the riches, honours, and pleasures of this world, but
after righteousness; by which is meant, not justice and equity, as persons oppressed and injured; nor a moral, legal righteousness, which the generality of the Jewish nation were eagerly pursuing; but the justifying righteousness of Christ, which is imputed by God the Father, and received by faith. To "hunger and thirst" after this, supposes a want of righteousness, which is the case of all men; a sense of want of it, which is only perceived by persons spiritually enlightened; a discovery of the righteousness of Christ to them, which is made in the Gospel, and by the Spirit of God; a value for it, and a preference of it to all other righteousness; and an earnest desire after it, to be possessed of it, and found in it; and that nothing can be more grateful than that, because of its perfection, purity, suitableness, and use: happy souls are these,
for they shall be filled: with that righteousness, and with all other good things, in consequence of it; and particularly with joy and peace, which are the certain effects of it: or, "they shall be satisfied", that they have an interest in it; and so satisfied with it, that they shall never seek for any other righteousness, as a justifying one, in the sight of God; this being full, perfect, sufficient, and entirely complete.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Blessed are they which do hunger ... - Hunger and thirst, here, are expressive of strong desire. Nothing would better express the strong desire which we ought to feel to obtain righteousness than hunger and thirst. No needs are so keen, none so imperiously demand supply, as these. They occur daily, and when long continued, as in case of those shipwrecked, and doomed to wander months or years over burning sands, with scarcely any drink or food, nothing is more distressing. An ardent desire for anything is often represented in the Scriptures by hunger and thirst, Psalms 42:1-2; Psalms 63:1-2. A desire for the blessings of pardon and peace; a deep sense of sin, and want, and wretchedness, is also represented by thirsting, Isaiah 55:1-2.
They shall be filled - They shall be satisfied as a hungry man is when supplied with food, or a thirsty man when supplied with drink. Those who are perishing for want of righteousness; those who feel that they are lost sinners and strongly desire to be holy, shall be thus satisfied. Never was there a desire to be holy which God was not willing to gratify, and the gospel of Christ has made provision to satisfy all who truly desire to be holy. See Isaiah 55:1-3; Isaiah 65:13; John 4:14; John 6:35; John 7:37-38; Psalms 17:15.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Matthew 5:6. They which do hunger and thirst — As the body has its natural appetites of hunger and thirst for the food and drink suited to its nourishment, so has the soul. No being is indestructible or unfailing in its nature but GOD; no being is independent but him: as the body depends for its nourishment, health, and strength upon the earth, so does the soul upon heaven. Heavenly things cannot support the body; they are not suited to its nature: earthly things cannot support the soul, for the same reason. When the uneasy sensation termed hunger takes place in the stomach, we know we must get food or perish. When the soul is awakened to a tense of its wants, and begins to hunger and thirst after righteousness or holiness, which is its proper food, we know that it must be purified by the Holy Spirit, and be made a partaker of that living bread, John 8:48, or perish everlastingly. Now, as God never inspires a prayer but with a design to answer it, he who hungers and thirsts after the full salvation of God, may depend on being speedily and effectually blessed or satisfied, well-fed, as the word χορτασθησονται implies. Strong and intense desire after any object has been, both by poets and orators, represented metaphorically by hunger and thirst. See the well-known words of Virgil, AEneid iii. 55.
---------Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
Auri sacra FAMES! "O cursed hunger after gold! what canst thou not influence the hearts of men to perpetrate?"
How frequently do we find, inexplebilis honorum FAMES-SITIENS virtutis-famae SITUS, the insatiable hunger after honour, a thirst for virtue, thirst after fame, and such like! Righteousness here is taken for all the blessings of the new covenant - all the graces of the Messiah's kingdom - a full restoration to the image of God!
