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 forth his hand toward his disciples, be said, Behold, my mother and my brothers!

And looking round on those who sat about him, he saith, Behold my mother and my brothers.

Blessed

But woe to you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he hath sent me to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed,

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou didst receive thy good things in thy lifetime, and Lazarus in like manner his evil things; but now he is comforted here, and thou art tormented.

The blind receive sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised, and to the poor good tidings are brought;

Hath any one of the rulers believed in him? or of the Pharisees?

For consider, brethren, who ye are that have been called; not many wise men after the fashion of the world, not many mighty, not many noble;

as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

that under a great trial of distress the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty increased the riches of their liberality;

And ye became imitators of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy from the Holy Spirit;

Let the brother of low degree glory in that he is exalted;

Hearken, my beloved brethren. Did not God choose the poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him?

I know thy affliction and poverty, (but thou art rich,) and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.