Matthew 5:4 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴ “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall 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

Isaiah 12:1

You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, for though thou wast angry with me, thy anger turned away, and thou didst comfort me.

Isaiah 25:8

He will swallow up death for ever, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth; for the Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 30:19

Yea, O people in Zion who dwell at Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when he hears it, he will answer you.

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and requite him with comfort, creating for his mourners the fruit of the lips.

Isaiah 66:10

“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy, all you who mourn over her;

Isaiah 66:2

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things are mine, says the Lord. But this is the man to whom I will look, he that is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.

Ezekiel 7:16

And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one over his iniquity.

Ezekiel 9:4

And the Lord said to him, “Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark upon the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it.”

Zechariah 12:10

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of compassion and supplication, so that, when they look on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a first-born.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.

Luke 6:21

“Blessed are you that hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you that weep now, for you shall laugh.

Luke 6:25

“Woe to you that are full now, for you shall hunger. “Woe to you that laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.

Luke 7:38

and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

Luke 7:50

And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

James 1:12

Blessed is the man who endures trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life which God has promised to those who love him.

Revelation 21:4

he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.”