Matthew 5:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

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 Tagairtí Cros

2 Chronicles 33:12

In his distress he sought the favour of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.

2 Chronicles 33:19

His prayer and how God was moved by his entreaty, as well as all his sins and unfaithfulness, and the sites where he built high places and set up Asherah poles and idols before he humbled himself – all these are written in the records of the seers.

2 Chronicles 33:23

But unlike his father Manasseh, he did not humble himself before the Lord; Amon increased his guilt.

2 Chronicles 34:27

because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before God when you heard what he spoke against this place and its people, and because you humbled yourself before me and tore your robes and wept in my presence, I have heard you, declares the Lord.

2 Chronicles 7:14

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.’

Psalm 1:1

Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,

Psalm 112:1

Praise the Lord. Blessed are those who fear the Lord, who find great delight in his commands.

Psalm 128:1

Blessed are all who fear the Lord, who walk in obedience to him.

Psalm 146:5

Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God.

Psalm 2:12

Kiss his son, or he will be angry and your way will lead to your destruction, for his wrath can flare up in a moment. Blessed are all who take refuge in him.

Psalm 34:18

The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

Psalm 41:1

Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the Lord delivers them in times of trouble.

Psalm 51:17

My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.

Psalm 84:12

Lord Almighty, blessed is the one who trusts in you.

Proverbs 16:19

Better to be lowly in spirit along with the oppressed than to share plunder with the proud.

Proverbs 29:23

Pride brings a person low, but the lowly in spirit gain honour.

Proverbs 8:32

‘Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

Isaiah 30:18

Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!

Isaiah 57:15

For this is what the high and exalted One says – he who lives for ever, whose name is holy: ‘I live in a high and holy place, but also with the one who is contrite and lowly in spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,

Isaiah 66:2

Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?’ declares the Lord. ‘These are the ones I look on with favour: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

Matthew 11:6

Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.’

Matthew 13:16

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

Matthew 19:14

Jesus 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

It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns.

Matthew 25:34

‘Then the King will say to those on his right, “Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.

Matthew 3:2

and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.’

Matthew 8:11

I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.

Mark 10:14

When Jesus saw this, he was indignant. He said to them, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

Luke 11:28

He replied, ‘Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.’

Luke 18:14

‘I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.’

Luke 22:29

And I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me,

Luke 22:30

so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Luke 4:18

‘The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,

John 20:29

Then Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

James 1:10

But the rich should take pride in their humiliation – since they will pass away like a wild flower.

James 1:12

Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

James 2:5

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?

Revelation 19:9

Then the angel said to me, ‘Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!’ And he added, ‘These are the true words of God.’

Revelation 22:14

‘Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.

Revelation 3:17

You say, “I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.” But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.