Matthew 5:6 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 5:6

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

6 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

(ubi sup.) As soon as I have wept for my sins, I begin to hunger and thirst after righteousness. He who is afflicted with any sore disease, hath no hunger.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst,.... Not after the riches, honours, and pleasures of this world, but after righteousness; by which is meant, not justice and equity, as persons oppressed and injured; nor a moral, legal righteousness, which the generality of the Jewish nation were eagerly pursuing; but the justifying righteousness of Christ, which is imputed by God the Father, and received by faith.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

They which do hunger and thirst - As the body has its natural appetites of hunger and thirst for the food and drink suited to its nourishment, so has the soul. No being is indestructible or unfailing in its nature but God; no being is independent but him: as the body depends for its nourishment, health, and strength upon the earth, so does the soul upon heaven. Heavenly things cannot support the body; they are not suited to its nature: earthly things cannot support the soul, for the same reason.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2103: “The Hunger and Thirst Which Are Blessed” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1889)

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Μακάριοι	Makarioi	Blessed [are]	G3107 →
οἱ	hoi	those	G3588 →
πεινῶντες	peinōntes	hungering	G3983 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
διψῶντες	dipsōntes	thirsting for	G1372 →
τὴν	tēn	<the>	G3588 →
δικαιοσύνην,	dikaiosunēn	righteousness,	G1343 →
ὅτι	hoti	for	G3754 →
αὐτοὶ	autoi	they themselves	G846 →
χορτασθήσονται.¶	chortasthēsontai	will be filled.	G5526 →

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 4:14
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
leads to
- John 7:38–39
  Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
- John 6:35
  Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
- Isaiah 49:10
  They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
- Revelation 7:16
  ‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’
Through
Psalms 145:19
He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
leads to
- Psalms 37:4
  Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
- Ephesians 3:16–20
  I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being,
Through
John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
leads to
- Colossians 3:2
  Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
- Isaiah 55:2
  Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the…