Parallel Verses

Anderson New Testament

Blessed are the merciful; for they shall receive mercy.

New American Standard Bible

“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

King James Version

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Holman Bible

The merciful are blessed,
for they will be shown mercy.

International Standard Version

"How blessed are those who are merciful, because it is they who will receive mercy!

A Conservative Version

Blessed are the merciful, because they will obtain mercy.

American Standard Version

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Amplified

“Blessed [content, sheltered by God’s promises] are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

An Understandable Version

"Those persons who show mercy [toward others] will be blessed because they will be shown mercy [themselves].

Bible in Basic English

Happy are those who have mercy: for they will be given mercy.

Common New Testament

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Darby Translation

Blessed the merciful, for they shall find mercy.

Godbey New Testament

Blessed are the merciful: because they shall receive mercy.

Goodspeed New Testament

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy!

John Wesley New Testament

Happy are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.

Julia Smith Translation

Happy the compasaionate: for they shall be commiserated.

King James 2000

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Blessed [are] the merciful, because they will be shown mercy.

Modern King James verseion

Blessed are the merciful! For they shall obtain mercy.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Moffatt New Testament

Blessed are the merciful! they will find mercy.

Montgomery New Testament

"Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

NET Bible

"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

New Heart English Bible

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Noyes New Testament

Blessed are the merciful; for they will obtain mercy.

Sawyer New Testament

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

The Emphasized Bible

Happy, the merciful; for, they, shall receive mercy:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall find mercy.

Webster

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Weymouth New Testament

"Blessed are the compassionate, for they shall receive compassion.

Williams New Testament

"Blessed are those who show mercy, for they will have mercy shown them.

World English Bible

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Worrell New Testament

"Happy are the merciful: because they shall receive mercy.

Worsley New Testament

Blessed are the merciful; for they shall obtain mercy.

Youngs Literal Translation

Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.

Interlinear

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

ἐλεήμων 
Eleemon 
Usage: 1

for
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764


Usage: 0

Devotionals

Devotionals about Matthew 5:7

Images Matthew 5:7

Prayers for Matthew 5:7

Context Readings

The Beatitudes

6 Bless ed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness; for they shall be filled. 7 Blessed are the merciful; for they shall receive mercy. 8 Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.



Cross References

Matthew 6:14-15

For if you forgive men their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Matthew 18:33-35

Ought you not to have had mercy on your fellow-servant, even as I had mercy on you?

Hebrews 6:10

For God is not unjust, that he should forget your work, and the love which you have shown for his name by having ministered to the saints, and by continuing to minister.

Mark 11:25

And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have any thing against any one, that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your offenses.

Luke 6:35

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward shall be great, and you shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind to the unthankful and the evil.

Romans 11:30

For as you formerly did not believe God, but now have obtained mercy through their unbelief;

1 Corinthians 7:25

But with respect to virgins, I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment as one that is enabled, by the mercy of the Lord, to be faithful.

2 Corinthians 4:1

Wherefore, having this ministry, inasmuch as we have received mercy, we faint not;

Ephesians 4:32-1

and be kind to one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

Colossians 3:12

Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, a merciful disposition, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering:

1 Timothy 1:13

me, I say, who before was a reviler and a persecutor and an overbearing man. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief:

1 Timothy 1:16

But for this reason I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show all long-suffering, for an example to those who might afterward believe on him in order to life eternal.

2 Timothy 1:16-18

May the Lord give mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain:

Hebrews 4:16

Let us come, therefore, with boldness, to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and find grace to help in every time of need.

James 2:13

For he shall have judgment without mercy, who has shown no mercy. Mercy glories over judgment.

James 3:17

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

1 Peter 2:10

who formerly were not a people, but now are the people of God; who had not received mercy, but now have received mercy.

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