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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are the meek: The quiet-spirited, the gentle, the self-sacrificing,- Mat_5:5. For they shall inherit the earth. It looks as if they would be pushed out of the world but they shall not be, “for they shall inherit the earth.” The wolves devour the sheep, yet there are more sheep in the world than there are wolves, and the sheep, continue to...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. The course of these beatitudes is like going downstairs. They began with spiritual poverty, went on to mourning, came down to gentle-spiritedness, and now we come to hunger and thirst. Yet we have been going up all the time, for here we read, “They shall be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: They want to be better; they are hungry and thirsty after more holiness. They boast not of personal perfection, they are hungering and thirsting after righteousness, but they have not attained to it yet. Mat_5:6. For they shall be filled. God will fill them; and when he fills men...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: Pining to be holy, longing to serve God, anxious to spread every righteous principle,-blessed are they.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: Those who are kind, generous, sympathetic, ready to forgive those who have wronged them,-blessed are they.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed are the merciful,.... Who show mercy to the bodies of men, to those that are poor, indigent, and miserable, in their outward circumstances; by both sympathizing with them, and distributing unto them; not only making use of expressions of pity and concern; but communicating with readiness and cheerfulness, with affection and tenderness, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. “The merciful” are those who are always ready to forgive, always ready to help the poor and needy, always ready to overlook what they might well condemn; and “they shall obtain mercy.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are the merciful: The forgiving, the generous, the kind: “Blessed are the merciful:” —
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. There is such a connection between purity of heart and purity of understanding that the man whose eye is clarified by holiness shall see God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart:- It is a most blessed attainment to have such a longing for purity as to love everything that is chaste and holy, and to abhor everything that is questionable and unhallowed: blessed are the pure in heart:-
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed are the pure in heart,.... Not in the head; for men may have pure notions and impure hearts; not in the hand, or action, or in outward conversation only; so the Pharisees were outwardly righteous before men, but inwardly full of impurity; but "in heart". The heart of man is naturally unclean; nor is it in the power of man to make it clean,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. When the heart is washed, the dirt is taken from the mental eye. The heart that loves God is connected with an understanding that perceives God. There is no way of seeing God until the heart is renewed by sovereign grace. It is not greatness of intellect, but purity of affection that enables...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they shall see God. There is a wonderful connection between hearts and eyes. A man who has the stains of filth on his soul cannot see God, but they who are purified in heart are purified in vision too: “they shall see God.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed are the peace makers,.... Not between God and man, for no man can make his own peace with God; nor can any mere creature, angels, or men, make it for him; Christ, in this sense, is the only peace maker: but between men and men; and such are they, who are of peaceable dispositions themselves; live peaceably with all men, and with one...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are the peacemakers : Not only the passively peaceful, but the actively peaceful, who try to rectify mistakes, and to end all quarrels in a peaceful way. Mat_5:9. For they shall be called the children of God. They shall not only be the children of God, but men shall call them so; they shall recognize in them the likeness to the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. They shall not only be the children of God, but people shall call them by that name. There is something so Godlike in trying to put away discord, and to remove anger, and to promote love, that it makes men feel that peacemakers must be the children of God.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Blessed are the peacemakers: Those who always end a quarrel if they can, those who lay themselves out to prevent discord,-
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. They share the kingdom of heaven with the poor in spirit. They are often evil spoken of, they have sometimes to suffer the spoiling of their goods, many of them have laid down their lives for Christ’s...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Blessed are they which are persecuted,.... Not for any crimes they have done, for unrighteousness and iniquity, as murderers, thieves, and evildoers, but for righteousness sake: on account of their righteous and godly conversation, which brings upon them the hatred and enmity of the men of the world: for saints, by living righteously, separate...