While he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
Matthew 5:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Common English Bible “Happy are people who are hopeless, because the kingdom of heaven is theirs. Catholic Public Domain Version "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. |
While he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.
His prayer, and how God received his entreaty, all his sin and his faithlessness, the sites on which he built high places and set up the sacred poles and the images, before he humbled himself, these are written in the records of the seers.
He did not humble himself before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had humbled himself, but this Amon incurred more and more guilt.
because your heart was penitent and you humbled yourself before God when you heard his words against this place and its inhabitants, and you have humbled yourself before me and have torn your clothes and wept before me, I also have heard you, says the Lord.
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path that sinners tread or sit in the seat of scoffers,
Praise the Lord! Happy are those who fear the Lord, who greatly delight in his commandments.
Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God,
kiss his feet, or he will be angry, and you will perish in the way, for his wrath is quickly kindled. Happy are all who take refuge in him.
Happy are those who consider the poor; the Lord delivers them in the day of trouble.
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
It is better to be of a lowly spirit among the poor than to divide the spoil with the proud.
A person’s pride will bring humiliation, but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor.
Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
For thus says the high and lofty one who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the contrite.
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,
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.
He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God?
At that time Jesus said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants;
“But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
but Jesus said, “Let the children come to me, and do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.”
Blessed is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives.
Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world,
I tell you, many will come from east and west and will take their places at the banquet with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,
But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.
But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!”
I tell you, this man went down to his home justified rather than the other, for all who exalt themselves will be humbled, but all who humble themselves will be exalted.”
so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring 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 those who are oppressed,
Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe.”
Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.
and the rich in having been humbled, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.
Blessed is anyone who endures temptation. Such a one has stood the test and will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
And the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are true words of God.”
Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they will have the right to the tree of life and may enter the city by the gates.
For you say, ‘I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing.’ You do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.