Matthew 5:6 KJV — MannaFest

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

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ASV

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

WEB

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

YLT

`Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness--because they shall be filled.

DBT

Blessed they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

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Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.

Author: Matthew (Levi), a former tax collector called by Jesus
Date: c. AD 50–60

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Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
John 4:14
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Psalms 107:9
For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
John 6:27
Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
John 6:48–58
I am that bread of life.

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He prescribes duty as the way, and gives us standing rules of that duty. He directs his disciples, 1. To understand what they are--the salt of the earth, and the lights of the world,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Hunger is a desire of food to sustain, such as sanctifying righteousness. Thirst is the desire of drink to refresh, such as justifying righteousness, and the sense of our pardon. Those who hunger and thirst after spiritual blessings, are blessed in those desires, and shall be filled with those blessings.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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