Luke 6:20

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Summary

Luke 6:20

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

He lifted

Matthew 5:2

Matthew 12:49

Mark 3:34

Blessed

Bible References

He lifted

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

And looking about at those who sat around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Blessed

"But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and on them he has set the world.

Better is the little that the righteous has than the abundance of many wicked.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

It is better to be of a lowly spirit with the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.

The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the LORD, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the LORD,

So it was annulled on that day, and the sheep traders, who were watching me, knew that it was the word of the LORD.

the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything.

for in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.

And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,

Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation,

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

"'I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.