Matthew 5:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Blessed (happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous–with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the poor in spirit (the humble, who rate themselves insignificant), for theirs is the kingdom of heaven!

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Common English Bible

³ “Happy are people who are hopeless, because the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:3 Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:12

In his distress, he entreated Adonai his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer also, and how God was moved by his entreaty, all his sin and his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherah poles and the carved images before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of Hozai.

2 Chronicles 33:23

He did not humble himself before Adonai as his father Manasseh had humbled himself. Instead Amon increased his guilt.

2 Chronicles 34:27

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against the inhabitants , and you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes, and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ says Adonai.

2 Chronicles 7:14

when My people, 0ver whom My Name is called, humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself, and repent on dust and ashes.”

Psalm 1:1

Happy is the one who has not walked in the advice of the wicked, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of scoffers.

Psalm 112:1

Halleluyah! Happy is the man who fears Adonai, who delights greatly in His mitzvot.

Psalm 128:1

A Song of Ascents. Happy is everyone in awe of Adonai, who walks in His ways,

Psalm 146:5

Happy is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in Adonai his God,

Psalm 2:12

Kiss the Son, lest He become angry, and you perish along your way— since His wrath may flare up suddenly. Happy is everyone taking refuge in Him!

Psalm 34:18

The righteous cry out and Adonai hears, and delivers them from all their troubles.

Psalm 41:1

For the music director: a psalm of David.

Psalm 51:17

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise.

Psalm 84:12

For Adonai Elohim is a sun and a shield. Adonai gives grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Proverbs 16:19

Better to be lowly in spirit with the afflicted than to share the spoil with the proud.

Proverbs 29:23

A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will gain honor.

Proverbs 8:32

“So now, children, listen to me! Blessed are those who keep my ways.

Isaiah 30:18

Therefore Adonai is longing to be gracious to you. Thus He will be exalted, so He may have mercy on you. For Adonai is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him.

Isaiah 57:15

For thus says the High and Exalted One who inhabits eternity, whose Name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, yet also with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 61:1

The Ruach Adonai Elohim is on me, because Adonai has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound,

Isaiah 66:2

For My hand has made all these things, so all these things came to be,” declares Adonai. “But on this one will I look, one humble and of a contrite spirit, who trembles at My word.”

Micah 6:8

He has told you, humanity, what is good, and what Adonai is seeking from you: Only to practice justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Yeshua said in response, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and discerning and revealed them to infants.

Matthew 11:6

Blessed is the one who is not led to stumble because of Me.”

Matthew 13:16

“But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

Matthew 19:14

But Yeshua said, “Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”

Matthew 24:46

Blessed is that servant whose master finds him so doing when he comes.

Matthew 25:34

Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.

Matthew 3:2

“Turn away from your sins, for the kingdom of heaven is near!”

Matthew 8:11

Moreover, I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and they will recline at table with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10:14

But when Yeshua saw this, He got angry. He told them, “Let the little children come to Me! Do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Luke 11:28

But He said, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this man, rather than the other, went down to his home declared righteous. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 22:29

And just as My Father has granted Me a kingdom, so I grant to you

Luke 22:30

that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you shall sit upon thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Luke 4:18

“The Ruach Adonai is on me, because He has anointed me to proclaim Good News to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free the oppressed,

John 20:29

Yeshua said to Him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed? Blessed are the ones who have not seen and yet have believed!”

Deuteronomy 8:2

You are to remember all the way that Adonai your God has led you these 40 years in the wilderness—in order to humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His mitzvot or not.

James 1:10

and the rich person in his humble position, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

James 1:12

Happy is the one who endures testing, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love Him.

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters. Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom that He promised to those who love Him?

Revelation 19:9

Then the angel tells me, “Write: How fortunate are those who have been invited to the wedding banquet of the Lamb!” He also tells me, “These are the true words of God.”

Revelation 22:14

How fortunate are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the Tree of Life and may enter through the gates into the city.

Revelation 3:17

For you say, ‘I am rich, I have made myself wealthy, and I need nothing.’ But you do not know that you are miserable and pitiable and poor and blind and naked.