Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
"How blessed are those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness, because it is they who will be satisfied!
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
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.
Themes
Beatitudes of Christ » 4th spiritual appetite (signifying growth)
the Blessed » Who hunger and thirst after righteousness
Character » Of saints » Hungering for righteousness
Character of saints » Hungering after righteousness
Christian conduct » Blessedness of maintaining
Disciples/apostles » What the disciples are
Fulness » Spiritual » Fulness of blessing
Happiness of saints in this life » Described by Christ in the beatitudes
Hunger » Those that hunger after righteousness
Select readings » The beatitudes
Righteousness » Blessedness of » Hungering and thirsting after
Righteousness » Saints » Hunger and thirst after
Salt » Who is the salt of the earth
Spiritual » Fulness » Fulness of blessing
Spirituality » Engenders thirst for heavenly blessings
The fruit of righteousness » Those that hunger and thirst after righteousness
Thirst » Figurative of the ardent desire of the devout mind
Topics
Interlinear
Devotionals
Devotionals about Matthew 5:6
Devotionals containing Matthew 5:6
References
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 5:6
Prayers for Matthew 5:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Beatitudes
5
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
6
Names
Cross References
John 4:14
but whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.
John 6:48-58
I AM the bread of life.
John 7:37
In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If any man thirsts, let him come unto me and drink.
Psalm 4:6-7
There are many that say, Who will show us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.
Psalm 17:15
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.
Psalm 42:1-2
As the hart pants after the water brooks, so does my soul pant after thee, O God.
Psalm 63:1-2
O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee; my soul thirsts for thee; my flesh longs for thee in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water;
Psalm 63:5
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips
Psalm 65:4
Blessed is the man whom thou dost choose and cause to approach unto thee that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house even of thy holy temple.
Psalm 84:2
My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh sing to the living God.
Psalm 107:9
For he satisfies the soul that is destitute and fills the hungry soul with goodness.
Psalm 145:19
Resh He will fulfil the desire of those that fear him; he also will hear their cry and will save them.
Song of Songs 5:1
I came into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh and my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb and my honey; I have drunk my wine and my milk: eat, O friends; drink, beloved, drink abundantly.
Isaiah 25:6
And in this mountain the LORD of the hosts shall make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of purified wines, of fat things full of marrow, of purified liquids.
Isaiah 41:17
The poor and needy seek the waters that are not; their tongue fails for thirst; I the LORD will hear them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
Isaiah 44:3
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my spirit upon thy seed and my blessing upon thine offspring:
Isaiah 49:9-10
that thou may say to the prisoners, Go forth; and unto those that are in darkness, Show yourselves. Upon the ways shall they be fed, and upon all the high places shall be their pastures.
Isaiah 55:1-3
Ho, every one that thirsts, come ye to the waters, and he that has no money; come ye, buy, and eat; come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Isaiah 65:13
Therefore thus has the Lord GOD said, Behold, my slaves shall eat, but ye shall be hungry; behold, my slaves shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my slaves shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
Isaiah 66:11
That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the splendour of her glory.
Amos 8:11-13
Behold, the days come, said the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine to the earth, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
Luke 1:53
He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent empty away.
Luke 6:21
Blessed are those that hunger now, for ye shall be filled. Blessed are those that weep now, for ye shall laugh.
Luke 6:25
Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
John 6:27
Labour not for the food which perishes, but for the food which abides unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you, for him has God the Father sealed.
Revelation 7:16
They shall hunger no more neither thirst anymore; neither shall the sun be thrust upon them nor any other heat.