Matthew 5:5 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁵ Blessed [are] the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Blessed (happy, blithesome, joyous, spiritually prosperous–with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the meek (the mild, patient, long-suffering), for they shall inherit the earth! [Ps. 37:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Common English Bible

⁵ “Happy are people who are humble, because they will inherit the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be consoled.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Matthew 5:5 Cross References

Matthew 11:29

Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Matthew 21:5

"Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your King is coming to you, humble, and sitting on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey.' "

Romans 4:13

For the promise that he should be heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seed through [the] law, but through [the] righteousness of faith.

Galatians 5:23

gentleness, self-control-against such things there is no law.

Ephesians 4:2

with all humility and meekness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,

Colossians 3:12

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, patience;

1 Timothy 6:11

You however, O man of God, flee these things. But pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

2 Timothy 2:25

in meekness instructing those that oppose, if God perhaps may give them repentance, to a full knowledge of the truth,

Titus 3:2

to slander no one, to be peaceable, gentle, demonstrating all meekness to all men.

James 1:21

Therefore laying aside all filthiness and abundance of evil, in meekness receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

James 3:13

Is there anyone wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct [that] his works [are] in meekness of wisdom.

1 Peter 3:15

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be prepared with a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear;

1 Peter 3:4

rather [let it be] the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible [attitude] of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious before God.