Matthew 5:7
New International Version
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

New Living Translation
God blesses those who are merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

English Standard Version
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

Berean Standard Bible
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Berean Literal Bible
Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

King James Bible
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

New King James Version
Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.

New American Standard Bible
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

NASB 1995
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

NASB 1977
“Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

Legacy Standard Bible
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.

Amplified Bible
“Blessed [content, sheltered by God’s promises] are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

Christian Standard Bible
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The merciful are blessed, for they will be shown mercy.

American Standard Version
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Blessed are they who show mercy, for mercies will be upon them.

Contemporary English Version
God blesses those people who are merciful. They will be treated with mercy!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

English Revised Version
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Blessed are those who show mercy. They will be treated mercifully.

Good News Translation
"Happy are those who are merciful to others; God will be merciful to them!

International Standard Version
"How blessed are those who are merciful, because it is they who will receive mercy!

Literal Standard Version
Blessed the kind—because they will find kindness.

Majority Standard Bible
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

New American Bible
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

NET Bible
"Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

New Revised Standard Version
“Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.

New Heart English Bible
Blessed are the merciful, for they will obtain mercy.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Weymouth New Testament
"Blessed are the compassionate, for they shall receive compassion.

World English Bible
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

Young's Literal Translation
'Happy the kind -- because they shall find kindness.

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Context
The Beatitudes
6Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. 7Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. 8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.…

Cross References
2 Samuel 17:28
They brought beds, basins, and earthen vessels, as well as wheat, barley, flour, roasted grain, beans, lentils,

2 Samuel 22:26
To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

Psalm 18:25
To the faithful You show Yourself faithful, to the blameless You show Yourself blameless;

Proverbs 11:17
A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.

Proverbs 11:25
A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

Matthew 6:14
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Matthew 6:15
But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.


Treasury of Scripture

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

are.

Matthew 6:14,15
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: …

Matthew 18:33-35
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? …

2 Samuel 22:26
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

for.

Hosea 1:6
And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, Call her name Loruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

Hosea 2:1,23
Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah…

Romans 11:30
For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

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Matthew 5
1. Jesus' sermon on the mount:
3. The Beattitudes;
13. the salt of the earth;
14. the light of the world.
17. He came to fulfill the law.
21. What it is to kill;
27. to commit adultery;
33. to swear.
38. He exhorts to forgive wrong,
43. to love our enemies;
48. and to labor after perfection.














(7) The merciful.--The thought is the same as that afterwards embodied in the Lord's Prayer. They who are pitiful towards men their brethren are ipso facto the objects of the divine pity. The negative aspect of the same truth is presented in James 2:13. In this case, the promised blessing tends to perpetuate and strengthen the grace which is thus rewarded. No motive to mercy is so constraining as the feeling that we ourselves needed it and have found it.

Verse 7. - Our Lord here turns more directly to the character of his followers in relation to men; and in the next three Beatitudes mentions particulars which might be suggested by the sixth, seventh, and ninth commandments. The merciful (οἱ ἐλεήμονες). The mercy referred to here is not so much the almost negative quality which the word usually suggests to us (not dealing harshly, not inflicting punishment when due, sparing an animal or a fellow-man some unnecessary labour), as active kindness to the destitute and to any who are in trouble (cf. Matthew 9:27; Matthew 15:22; Matthew 17:15; Mark 5:19). As compared with οἰκτίρμονες (Luke 6:36), it seems to lay more stress on the feeling of pity showing itself in action and not only existing in thought. To this statement of our Lord's, that they who show mercy to those in need shall themselves be the objects of mercy (i.e. from God) in their time of need, many parallels have been adduced, e.g., by Wetstein. Rabbi Gamaliel (? the second, circa A.D. ), as reported by Rabbi Judah (circa A.D. ), says (Talm. Bab., 'Sabb.,' 151 b), on Deuteronomy 13:18, "Every one that showeth mercy to others, they show mercy to him from heaven, and every one that showeth not mercy to others, they show him not mercy from heaven;" cf. also ' Test. XII. Patr.:' Zab., § 8, "In proportion as a man has compassion (σπλαγχνίζεται) on his neighbour, so has the Lord upon him;" and, probably with reference to this passage, Clem. Rom., § 13, ἐλεᾶτε ἵνα ἐλεηθῆτε. (For the converse, cf. James 2:13.) Calvin remarks, "Hoc etiam paradoxon cum humano judicio pugnat. Mundus reputat beatos, qui malorum alienorum securi quieti suae consulunt: Christus autem hic beatos dicit, qui non modo ferendis propriis malis parati sunt, sed aliena etiam in se suscipiunt, ut miseris succurrant."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Blessed [are]
Μακάριοι (Makarioi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3107: Happy, blessed, to be envied. A prolonged form of the poetical makar; supremely blest; by extension, fortunate, well off.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

merciful,
ἐλεήμονες (eleēmones)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1655: Full of pity, merciful, compassionate. From eleeo; compassionate.

for
Ὅτι (Hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

they
αὐτοὶ (autoi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

will be shown mercy.
ἐλεηθήσονται (eleēthēsontai)
Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 1653: To pity, have mercy on. From eleos; to compassionate.


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