Luke 1:48

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for he has looked with favor on the lowly state of his servant. Surely from now on all generations will call me blessed,

Cross References

Genesis 30:13

And Leah said, “Happy am I! For the women will call me happy,” so she named him Asher.

2 Samuel 7:8

Now therefore thus you shall say to my servant David: Thus says the Lord of hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep to be prince over my people Israel,

Psalm 102:17

He will regard the prayer of the destitute and will not despise their prayer.

Psalm 136:23

It is he who remembered us in our low estate, for his steadfast love endures forever;

Psalm 138:6

For though the Lord is high, he regards the lowly, but the haughty he perceives from far away.

Psalm 72:17

May his name endure forever, his fame continue as long as the sun. May all nations be blessed in him; may they pronounce him happy.

Isaiah 66:2

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

Malachi 3:12

Then all nations will count you happy, for you will be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts.

Luke 1:28

And he came to her and said, “Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you.”

Luke 1:42

and exclaimed with a loud cry, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb.

Luke 1:45

And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord.”

Luke 1:49

for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name;

Luke 11:27

While he was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!”

1 Samuel 1:11

She made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head.”

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and on them he has set the world.