Matthew 5:6

Douay-Rheims Bible

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

King James Version (1611)
Blessed are they which doe hunger and thirst after righteousnesse: for they shall be filled.

King James Version
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

English Standard Version
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

New American Standard Bible
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

New Century Version
They are blessed who hunger and thirst after justice, for they will be satisfied.

Amplified Bible
"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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousnes: for they shalbe filled.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Legacy Standard Bible
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Berean Standard Bible
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Contemporary English Version
God blesses those people who want to obey him more than to eat or drink. They will be given what they want!

Complete Jewish Bible
"How blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness! for they will be filled.

Darby Translation
Blessed they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for *they* shall be filled.

Easy-to-Read Version
Great blessings belong to those who want to do right more than anything else. God will fully satisfy them.

George Lamsa Translation
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be well satisfied.

Good News Translation
"Happy are those whose greatest desire is to do what God requires; God will satisfy them fully!

Lexham English Bible
Blessed are the ones who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be satisfied.

Literal Translation
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness! For they shall be filled.

American Standard Version
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Bible in Basic English
Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.

Hebrew Names Version
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, For they shall be filled.

International Standard Version
"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!

Etheridge Translation
Blessed they who hunger and thirst unto righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Murdock Translation
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be satiated!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Blessed (are) they, which do hunger and thirste (after) righteousnes: for they shalbe satisfied.

English Revised Version
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

World English Bible
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Happy are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be satisfied.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Blessid ben thei that hungren and thristen riytwisnesse, for thei schulen be fulfillid.

Update Bible Version
Blessed are those that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed [are] they who hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be filled.

New English Translation
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

New King James Version
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

New Living Translation
God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.

New Life Bible
Those who are hungry and thirsty to be right with God are happy, because they will be filled.

New Revised Standard
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Happy, they who hunger and thirst for righteousness; for, they, shall be filled:

Revised Standard Version
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Blessed are they which honger and thurst for rightewesnes: for they shalbe filled.

Young's Literal Translation
`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Blessed are they which honger & thyrst for rightewesnes: for they shalbe filled.

Mace New Testament (1729)
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be satisfied.

THE MESSAGE
"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.

Simplified Cowboy Version
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.

Contextual Overview

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ⁴ Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land. ⁵ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. ⁶ Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill. ⁷ Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. ⁸ Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God. ⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. ¹⁰ Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. ¹¹ Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake: ¹² Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

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

Genesis 4:26
But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos: this man began 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!