Matthew 5:4 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁴ Blessed [are] those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ Blessed and enviably happy [with a happiness produced by the experience of God's favor and especially conditioned by the revelation of His matchless grace] are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted! [Isa. 61:2.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Common English Bible

⁴ “Happy are people who grieve, because they will be made glad.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

Matthew 5:4 Cross References

Luke 16:25

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

Luke 6:21

Blessed [are] you who hunger now, for you shall be filled. Blessed [are] you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Luke 6:25

Woe to you who have been filled, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

Luke 7:38

and standing by His feet behind Him weeping; and she began to wash His feet with her tears, and was wiping [them] with the hair of her head; and she was kissing His feet and anointing [them] with the perfume.

Luke 7:50

Then He said to the woman, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace."

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who endures temptation; because when he is approved, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord promised to those who love Him.

Revelation 21:4

And He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying out; neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things have passed away."