1 Machabæorum 5:10

Nova Vulgata

Beati, qui persecutionem patiuntur propter iustitiam, quoniam ipsorum est regnum caelorum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Beati qui persecutionem patiuntur propter justitiam : quoniam ipsorum est regnum c�lorum.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Beati qui persecutionem patiuntur propter justitiam: quoniam ipsorum est regnum c�lorum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

are: Matthew 10:23, Psalms 37:12, Mark 10:30, Luke 6:22, Luke 21:12, John 15:20, Acts 5:40, Acts 8:1, Romans 8:35-39, 1 Corinthians 4:9-13, 2 Corinthians 4:8-12, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Philippians 1:28, 2 Timothy 2:12, 2 Timothy 3:11, James 1:2-5, 1 Peter 3:13, 1 Peter 3:14, 1 Peter 4:12-16, 1 John 3:12, Revelation 2:10

for: Matthew 5:3, 2 Thessalonians 1:4-7, James 1:12

Reciprocal: Psalms 38:20 - because Psalms 44:22 - killed Psalms 89:51 - they have Isaiah 66:5 - Your Jeremiah 15:15 - know Jeremiah 20:2 - smote Matthew 3:2 - for Matthew 13:21 - for Matthew 22:6 - the remnant Mark 8:35 - for Mark 10:29 - for Luke 6:20 - for Acts 5:41 - rejoicing Acts 16:25 - sang Romans 5:3 - but we 2 Thessalonians 1:7 - who 2 Timothy 3:12 - shall Hebrews 11:25 - Choosing James 5:11 - we count 1 Peter 2:19 - for conscience 1 Peter 2:20 - this

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Blessed are they which are persecuted,.... Not for any crimes they have done, for unrighteousness and iniquity, as murderers, thieves, and evildoers, but

for righteousness sake: on account of their righteous and godly conversation, which brings upon them the hatred and enmity of the men of the world: for saints, by living righteously, separate themselves from them, and profess themselves not to belong to them; their religious life sets a brand upon, and distinguishes other persons; yea, it reproves and condemns their wicked lives and practices; and this fills them with wrath against them, and puts them on persecuting them: or by "righteousness" may be meant, a righteous cause, the cause of Christ and his Gospel; for by making a profession of Christ, showing a concern for his interest, and by engaging in a vindication of his person and truths, saints expose themselves to the rage and persecution of men: and particularly, they are persecuted for preaching, maintaining, or embracing, the doctrine of justification by the righteousness of Christ; because it is not of man, nor agreeable to the carnal reason of man; it is opposite to the way of justification, which men naturally receive; it excludes boasting, and is contrary to their carnal and selfish principles: persecution is either verbal with the tongue, by cruel mockings and reproachful language; or real, by deeds, such as confiscation of goods, banishment, imprisonment of body, and innumerable sorts of death: the latter seems here more especially designed, and both are expressed in the following verse; and yet the saints, though thus used, or rather abused, are happy;

for theirs is the kingdom of heaven: the same blessedness is predicated of these as of the poor in spirit, ver. 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Blessed are they which are persecuted - To persecute means literally to pursue; follow after, as one does a flying enemy. Here it means to vex, or oppress one, on account of his religion. They persecute others who injure their names, reputation, property, or who endanger or take their life, on account of their religious opinions.

For righteousness’ sake - Because they are righteous, or are the friends of God. We are not to seek persecution. We are not to provoke it by strange sentiments or conduct; by violating the laws of civil society, or by modes of speech that are unnecessarily offensive to others. But if, in the honest effort to be Christians, and to live the life of Christians, others persecute and revile us, we are to consider this as a blessing. It is an evidence that we are the children of God, and that he will defend us. “All that live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution,” 2 Timothy 3:12.

Theirs is the kingdom of heaven - They have evidence that they are Christians, and that they will be brought to heaven.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 5:10. They which are persecuted — δεδιωγμενοι, they who are hard pressed upon and pursued with repeated acts of enmity. Parkhurst. They are happy who suffer, seems a strange saying: and that the righteous should suffer, merely because they are such, seems as strange. But such is the enmity of the human heart to every thing of God and goodness, that all those who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution in one form or other. As the religion of Christ gives no quarter to vice, so the vicious will give no quarter to this religion, or to its professors.

For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. — That spiritual kingdom, explained Matthew 3:2, and that kingdom of glory which is its counterpart and consequence.