Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God.

New American Standard Bible

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

King James Version

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Holman Bible

The pure in heart are blessed,
for they will see God.

International Standard Version

"How blessed are those who are pure in heart, because it is they who will see God!

A Conservative Version

Blessed are the pure in heart, because they will see God.

American Standard Version

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Amplified

“Blessed [anticipating God’s presence, spiritually mature] are the pure in heart [those with integrity, moral courage, and godly character], for they will see God.

An Understandable Version

"Those persons whose hearts are pure [before God] will be blessed because they will see God.

Anderson New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.

Bible in Basic English

Happy are the clean in heart: for they will see God.

Common New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Darby Translation

Blessed the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Godbey New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart: because they shall see God.

Goodspeed New Testament

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God!

John Wesley New Testament

Happy are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.

Julia Smith Translation

Happy the pure in heart: tor they shall see God.

King James 2000

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Blessed [are] the pure in heart, because they will see God.

Modern King James verseion

Blessed are the pure in heart! For they shall see God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Moffatt New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart! they will see God.

Montgomery New Testament

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

NET Bible

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

New Heart English Bible

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Noyes New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart; for they will see God.

Sawyer New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

The Emphasized Bible

Happy, the pure, in heart; for, they, shall, see God:

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Webster

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Weymouth New Testament

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Williams New Testament

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

World English Bible

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Worrell New Testament

"Happy are the pure in heart; because they shall see God.

Worsley New Testament

Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.

Interlinear

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

are the pure
καθαρός 
Katharos 
Usage: 21

in heart
καρδία 
Kardia 
Usage: 116

for
ὅτι 
Hoti 
Usage: 764


Usage: 0

ὀπτάνομαι ὄπτομαι 
Optanomai 
Usage: 41

Devotionals

Devotionals about Matthew 5:8

Devotionals containing Matthew 5:8

References

Images Matthew 5:8

Context Readings

The Beatitudes

7 Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness. 8 Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God. 9 Happy the peacemakers -- because they shall be called Sons of God.



Cross References

Hebrews 12:14

peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,

Psalm 24:4

The clean of hands, and pure of heart, Who hath not lifted up to vanity his soul, Nor hath sworn to deceit.

Acts 15:9

and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

Revelation 22:4

and they shall see His face, and His name is upon their foreheads,

1 Corinthians 13:12

for we see now through a mirror obscurely, and then face to face; now I know in part, and then I shall fully know, as also I was known;

1 Peter 1:22

Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

1 John 3:2-3

beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

Genesis 32:30

And Jacob calleth the name of the place Peniel: for 'I have seen God face unto face, and my life is delivered;'

1 Chronicles 29:17-19

'And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

Job 19:26-27

And after my skin hath compassed this body, Then from my flesh I see God:

Psalm 15:2

He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

Psalm 18:26

With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,

Psalm 51:6

Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.

Psalm 51:10

A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

Psalm 73:1

A Psalm of Asaph. Only -- good to Israel is God, to the clean of heart. And I -- as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,

Proverbs 22:11

Whoso is loving cleanness of heart, Grace are his lips, a king is his friend.

Ezekiel 36:25-27

And I have sprinkled over you clean water, And ye have been clean; From all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols, I do cleanse you.

Matthew 23:25-28

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.

2 Corinthians 7:1

Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

Titus 1:15

all things, indeed, are pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast is nothing pure, but of them defiled are even the mind and the conscience;

Hebrews 9:14

how much more shall the blood of the Christ (who through the age-during Spirit did offer himself unblemished to God) purify your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Hebrews 10:22

may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

James 3:17

and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

James 4:8

draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

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