Matthew 5:4
New International Version
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

New Living Translation
God blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

English Standard Version
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Berean Standard Bible
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Berean Literal Bible
Blessed are those mourning, for they will be comforted.

King James Bible
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

New King James Version
Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.

New American Standard Bible
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

NASB 1995
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

NASB 1977
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Legacy Standard Bible
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Amplified Bible
“Blessed [forgiven, refreshed by God’s grace] are those who mourn [over their sins and repent], for they will be comforted [when the burden of sin is lifted].

Christian Standard Bible
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Those who mourn are blessed, for they will be comforted.

American Standard Version
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Contemporary English Version
God blesses those people who grieve. They will find comfort!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

English Revised Version
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Blessed are those who mourn. They will be comforted.

Good News Translation
"Happy are those who mourn; God will comfort them!

International Standard Version
"How blessed are those who mourn, because it is they who will be comforted!

Literal Standard Version
Blessed the mourning—because they will be comforted.

Majority Standard Bible
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

New American Bible
Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.

NET Bible
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

New Revised Standard Version
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

New Heart English Bible
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Weymouth New Testament
"Blessed are the mourners, for they shall be comforted.

World English Bible
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Young's Literal Translation
'Happy the mourning -- because they shall be comforted.

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Context
The Beatitudes
3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. 5Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.…

Cross References
Isaiah 61:2
to proclaim the year of the LORD's favor and the day of our God's vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

Isaiah 66:2
Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being," declares the LORD. "This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.

John 16:20
Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

Revelation 7:17
For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. 'He will lead them to springs of living water,' and 'God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.'"


Treasury of Scripture

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Psalm 6:1-9
To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure…

Psalm 13:1-5
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? …

Psalm 30:7-11
LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled…

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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.














(4) They that mourn.--The verb is commonly coupled with weeping (Mark 16:10; Luke 6:25; James 4:9; Revelation 18:15-19). Here, as before, there is an implied, though not an expressed, limitation. The "mourning" is not the sorrow of the world that worketh "death" (2Corinthians 7:10) for failure, suffering, and the consequences of sin, but the sorrow which flows out in the tears that cleanse, the mourning over sin itself and the stain which it has left upon the soul.

They shall be comforted.--The pronoun is emphatic. The promise implies the special comfort (including counsel) which the mourner needs; "comforted" he shall be with the sense of pardon and peace, of restored purity and freedom. We cannot separate the promise from the word which Christendom has chosen (we need not now discuss its accuracy) to express the work of the Holy Ghost the Comforter, still less from the yearning expectation that then prevailed among such of our Lord's hearers as were looking for the "consolation"--i.e., the "comfort"--of Israel (Luke 2:25). . . .

Verse 4. - In some, especially "Western" authorities, vers. 4, 5 are transposed (vide Westcott and Hort, 'Appendix'), possibly because the terms of ver. 5 seemed to be more closely parallel to ver. 3 (cf. Meyer, Weiss), and also those of ver. 4 fitted excellently with ver. 6. But far the greater balance of evidence is in favour of the usual order, which also, though not on the surface, is in the deepest connexion with the preceding and the following verses. They that mourn (cf. Isaiah 61:2). Our Lord does not define that which causes the mourning, but as the preceding and the following verses all refer to the religious or at least the ethical sphere, merely carnal and worldly mourning is excluded. The mourning referred to must, therefore, be produced by religious or moral causes. Mourners for the state of Israel, so far as they mourned not for its political but for its spiritual condition (cf. similar mourning in the Christian Church, 2 Corinthians 7:9, 10), would be included (cf. Weiss, 'Life,' 2:142); but our Lord's primary thought must have been of mourning over one's personal state, not exactly, perhaps, over one's sins, but over the realized poverty in spirit just spoken of (cf. Weiss-Meyer). As the deepest poverty lies in the sphere of the spirit, so the deepest mourning lies there also. All other mourning is but partial and slight compared with this (Proverbs 18:14). For they shall be comforted. When? On having the kingdom of heaven (ver. 3); i.e. during this life in measure (cf. Luke 2:25), but fully only hereafter. The mourning over one's personal poverty in spirit is removed in proportion as Christ is received and appropriated; but during this life such appropriation can be only partial.

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.

those who
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.

mourn,
πενθοῦντες (penthountes)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3996: To mourn, lament, feel guilt. From penthos; to grieve.

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 comforted.
παρακληθήσονται (paraklēthēsontai)
Verb - Future Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 3870: From para and kaleo; to call near, i.e. Invite, invoke.


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