Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

"How blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness, because it is they who will be satisfied!

New American Standard Bible

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are blessed,
for they will be filled.

A Conservative Version

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, because they will be filled.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

“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.

An Understandable Version

"Those persons who have an appetite for whatever is right will be blessed because they will be satisfied.

Anderson New Testament

Bless ed are they that hunger and thirst for 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.

Common New Testament

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be satisfied.

Darby Translation

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

Godbey New Testament

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: because they shall be filled.

Goodspeed New Testament

"Blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for uprightness, for they will be satisfied!

John Wesley New Testament

Happy are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be satisfied.

Julia Smith Translation

Happy they hungering and thirsting for Justice: for they shall be filled.

King James 2000

Blessed are they who do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Blessed [are] the ones who hunger and thirst [for] righteousness, because they will be satisfied.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Blessed are they which hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Moffatt New Testament

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied.

Montgomery New Testament

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for the righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

Noyes New Testament

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they will be filled.

Sawyer New Testament

Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.

The Emphasized Bible

Happy, they who hunger and thirst for righteousness; for, they, shall be filled:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be fed to the full.

Twentieth Century New Testament

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

Webster

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Weymouth New Testament

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

Williams New Testament

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for being and doing right, for they will be completely satisfied.

World English Bible

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

Worrell New Testament

"Happy are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness: because they shall be filled.

Worsley New Testament

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be satisfied.

Youngs Literal Translation

Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
μακάριος 
Makarios 
Usage: 21

πεινάω 
Peinao 
hunger, be an hungred, be hungry, hungry
Usage: 12

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

διψάω 
Dipsao 
Usage: 6

δικαιοσύνη 
Dikaiosune 
Usage: 83

for
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764


Usage: 0

Devotionals

Devotionals about Matthew 5:6

Devotionals containing Matthew 5:6

References

Images Matthew 5:6

Prayers for Matthew 5:6

Context Readings

The Beatitudes

5 "How blessed are those who are humble, because it is they who will inherit the earth! 6 "How blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness, because it is they who will be satisfied! 7 "How blessed are those who are merciful, because it is they who will receive mercy!



Cross References

John 4:14

But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life."

John 6:48-58

I'm the bread of life.

John 7:37

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and shouted, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink!

Psalm 4:6-7

Many are asking, "Who will help us to see better days?" LORD, may the light of your favor shine upon us.

Psalm 17:15

But as for me, justified, I will behold your face; when I awake, your presence will satisfy me. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David, who spoke the words of this song to the LORD on the day when the LORD delivered him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

Psalm 42:1-2

As an antelope pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, God.

Psalm 63:1-2

God, you are my God! I will fervently seek you. My soul thirsts for you; my flesh longs for you in a dry, weary, and parched land.

Psalm 63:5

Just as I am satisfied with the choicest of foods, so my lips will praise you joyfully.

Psalm 65:4

How blessed is the one you choose, the one you cause to live in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, yes, even with the holiness of your Temple.

Psalm 84:2

I desire and long for the Temple courts of the LORD. My heart and body sing for joy to the living God.

Psalm 107:9

He has satisfied the one who thirsts, filling the hungry with what is good.

Psalm 145:19

He fulfills the desire of those who fear him, hearing their cry and saving them.

Song of Songs 5:1

I've come into my garden, my sister, my bride; I've gathered my myrrh with my spices. I've eaten my honeycomb with my honey. I've drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, friends! Drink and become drunk with love.

Isaiah 25:6

"On this mountain, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will prepare for all nations a banquet of rich food, a banquet of well-aged wines rich food full of marrow, and refined wines of the finest vintage

Isaiah 41:17

"As for the poor, the needy, those seeking water when there is none and their tongues are parched from thirst I, the LORD, will answer them. I, the God of Israel, won't abandon them.

Isaiah 44:3

For I'll pour water upon thirsty ground and streams on parched land. So will I pour my Spirit upon your offspring, and my blessing upon your descendants.

Isaiah 49:9-10

saying to captives, "Come out!' and to those who are in darkness, "Be free!' "They will feed on all the mountains, and their pasture will be on all the barren hills.

Isaiah 55:1-3

"Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the waters! Also, you that have no money, come, buy, and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Isaiah 65:13

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "See, my servants will eat, but you'll go hungry; my servants will drink, but you'll go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you'll be put to shame.

Isaiah 66:11

so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her consoling breasts, and so that you may drink deeply and take delight from her glorious bosom."

Amos 8:11-13

"Look! The days are coming," declares the Lord GOD, "when I will send a famine throughout the land not a famine of food or a thirst for water but rather a famine of hearing the words of the LORD.

Luke 1:53

He filled hungry people with good things and sent rich people away with nothing.

Luke 6:21

How blessed are you who are hungry now, because you will be satisfied! How blessed are you who are crying now, because you will laugh!

Luke 6:25

How terrible it will be for you who are full now, because you will be hungry! How terrible it will be for you who are laughing now, because you will mourn and cry!

John 6:27

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

Revelation 7:16

They will never be hungry or thirsty again. Neither the sun nor its heat will ever beat down on them,

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