"Blessed are those who feel poor in spirit! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

Blessed are the mourners! they will be consoled.

Blessed are the humble! they will inherit the earth.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for goodness! they will be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful! they will find mercy.

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

Blessed are the peacemakers! they will be ranked sons of God.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of goodness! the Realm of heaven is theirs.

Blessed are you when men denounce you and persecute you and utter all manner of evil against you for my sake;

And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears, for they hear!

Then he ordered the crowds to recline on the grass, and after taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven, blessed them, and after breaking the loaves handed them to the disciples, and the disciples handed them to the crowds.

Jesus answered him, "You are a blessed man, Simon Bar-jona, for it was my Father in heaven, not flesh and blood, that revealed this to you.

And the crowds who went in front of him and who followed behind shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name! Hosanna in high heaven!"

For I tell you, you will never see me again till you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

Then shall the King say to those on his right, 'Come, you whom my Father has blessed, come into your inheritance in the realm prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

and he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he blessed them, broke the loaves in pieces which he handed to the disciples to set before them, and divided the two fish among them all.

and as they also had a few small fish, he blessed them too and told the disciples to serve them out as well.

Then he put his arms round them, laid his hands on them and blessed them.

and both those in front and those who followed shouted, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name!

Blessed be the Reign to come, our father David's reign. Hosanna in high heaven!"

He said nothing and made no answer. Again the high priest put a question to him. "Are you the Christ?" he said, "the Son of the Blessed?"

she called out with a loud cry, "Blessed among women are you, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!

And blessed is she who believed that the Lord's words to her would be fulfilled."

for he has considered the humiliation of his servant. From this time forth all generations will call me blessed,

"Blessed be the Lord the God of Israel, for he has cared for his people and wrought them redemption;

then Symeon took him in his arms, blessed God, and said,

but Symeon blessed them, and to his mother Mary he said, "This child is destined for the downfall as well as for the rise of many a one in Israel; destined to be a Sign for man's attack ??35 to bring out the secret aims of many a heart. And your own soul will be pierced by a spear."

Then, raising his eyes he looked at his disciples and said: "Blessed are you poor! the Realm of God is yours.

Blessed are you who hunger to-day! you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep to-day! you shall laugh.

Blessed are you when men will hate you, when they will excommunicate you and denounce you and defame you as wicked on account of the Son of man;

And blessed is he who is repelled by nothing in me!"

Then taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven he blessed them, broke them in pieces and handed them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

Then turning to the disciples he said privately, "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

While he was saying this, a woman shouted to him out of the crowd, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts you sucked!"

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear and who observe the word of God!"

Blessed are those servants whom the lord and master finds awake when he comes! I tell you truly, he will gird himself, make them recline at table, and come forward to wait on them.

Whether he comes in the second or the third watch of the night and finds them thus alert, blessed are they!

Blessed is that servant if his lord and master finds him so doing when he arrives!

See, your House is left to yourselves. I tell you, you will never see me till the day comes when you say, Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name."

Then you will be blessed; for as they have no means of repaying you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just."

Hearing this, one of his fellow guests said to him, "Blessed is he who feasts in the Realm of God!"

saying, "Blessed be the king who comes in the Lord's name! Peace in heaven and glory in the High places!"

For there are days coming when the cry will be, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never have borne and the breasts that never have suckled!'

And as he lay at table with them he took the loaf, blessed it, broke it and handed it to them.

He led them out as far as Bethany; then, lifting his hands, he blessed them.

And as he blessed them he parted from them [and was carried up to heaven].

and taking palm-branches they went out to meet him, shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed be he who comes in the Lord's name, the king of Israel!"

If you know all this, blessed are you if you really do it.

Jesus said to him, "You believe because you have seen me? Blessed be those who believe though they have never seen me."

Now you are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers when he said to Abraham, all families on earth shall be blessed in your offspring.

So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, ??25 since they have exchanged the truth of God for an untruth, worshipping and serving the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed for ever: Amen.

Just as David himself describes the bliss of the man who has righteousness counted to him by God apart from what he does ??7 Blessed are they whose breaches of the Law are forgiven, whose sins are covered!

Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not count to him.

the patriarchs are theirs, and theirs too (so far as natural descent goes) is the Christ. (Blessed for evermore be the God who is over all! Amen.)

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of tender mercies and the God of all comfort,

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed for ever, He knows I am telling the truth!

Besides, Scripture anticipated God's justification of the Gentiles by faith when it announced the gospel beforehand to Abraham in these terms: All nations shall be blessed in thee.

So that those who rely on faith are blessed along with believing Abraham.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who in Christ has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly sphere!

as laid down by that glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

to keep your commission free from stain, free from reproach, till the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ ??15 which will be brought about in due time by that blessed and only Sovereign, King of kings and Lord of lords,

awaiting the blessed hope of the appearance of the Glory of the great God and of our Saviour Christ Jesus,

For Melchizedek, the king of Salem, a priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham on his return from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him ??2 who had a tenth part of everything assigned him by Abraham ??this Melchizedek is primarily a king of righteousness (that is the meaning of his name); then, besides that, king of Salem (which means, king of peace).

but he who had no Levitical genealogy actually tithed Abraham and blessed the possessor of the promises!

(And there is no question that it is the inferior who is blessed by the superior.)

It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in connexion with the future.

It was by faith that, when Jacob was dying, he blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bending in prayer over the head of his staff.

Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.

Whereas he who gazes into the faultless law of freedom and remains in that position, proving himself to be no forgetful listener but an active agent, he will be blessed in his activity.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a life of hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Even supposing you have to suffer for the sake of what is right, still you are blessed. Have no fear of their threats, do not let that trouble you,

If you are denounced for the sake of Christ, you are blessed; for then the Spirit of glory and power, the Spirit of God himself, is resting on you.

Blessed is he who reads aloud, blessed they who hear the words of this prophecy and lay to heart what is written in it; for the time is near.

Then I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write this: ??'Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth! Even so, it is the voice of the Spirit ??blessed in resting from their toils; for what they have done goes with them.'"

(Lo, I am coming like a thief; blessed be he who keeps awake and holds his raiment fast, not to go naked and have the shame of exposure!)

Then I was told, "Write this: ??'Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage-banquet of the Lamb!'" The angel also told me, "These are genuine words of God."

Blessed and holy is he who shares in the first resurrection; over such the second death has no power, they shall be priests of God and the Christ, and reign along with him during the thousand years.

Lo, I am coming very soon; blessed is he who lays to heart the words of the prophecy of this book!"

Blessed are those who wash their robes, that theirs may be the right to the tree of Life, the right to enter the gates of the City!