Matthew 5:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Matthew 5:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Blessed are they which do hunger ... - Hunger and thirst, here, are expressive of strong desire. Nothing would better express the strong desire which we ought to feel to obtain righteousness than...
Matthew 5:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Beatitudes ( cf. Luke 6:20-23 ). These nine sayings (eight if we reckon Matthew 5:10-12 as one, or regard Matthew 5:11 f. as having originally stood elsewhere; seven if we omit Matthew 5...
Matthew 5:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

hunger and thirst, &c. The idiom for. strong desire. Compare Psalms 42:1 ; Psalms 42:2 ; Psalms 119:103 .
Matthew 5:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6. Happy are they who hunger To hunger and thirst is here, I think, used as a figurative expression, (366) and means to suffer poverty, to want the necessaries of life, and even to be de...
Matthew 5:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 1290 HUNGERING AND THIRSTING AFTER RIGHTEOUSNESS Matthew 5:6 . Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled . MEN naturally desire happin...
Matthew 5:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. They which do hunger and thirst - As the body has its natural appetites of hunger and thirst for the food...
Matthew 5:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Blessed are they which do hunger, &c.— Our Saviour uses the ideas of hunger and thirst metaphorically, to express vehement desire. By righteousness seems to be meant that holiness which t...
Matthew 5:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, [ teen ( G3588 ) dikaiosune...
Matthew 5:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Beatitudes . Properly speaking, the beatitudes are seven in number, Matthew 5:10-11 ; Matthew 5:12 , forming an appendix. These three vv. being counted in, the number of beatitudes is raised,...
Matthew 5:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Which do hunger and thirst. — We seem in this to hear the lesson which our Lord had learnt from the recent experience of the wilderness. The craving of bodily hunger has become a parable of that hi...
Matthew 5:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 7 The Gospel of the Kingdom ("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1-48 ; Matthew 6:1-34 ; Matthew 7:1-29 IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon on the M...
Matthew 5:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Opening Words of Grace and Truth Matthew 5:1-9 There are many doors into the life of blessedness. It does not depend on outward possessions, such as worldly goods or high birth. There is no sou...
Matthew 5:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the three Chapter s beginning here we have the Magna Charta of the Kingdom. This chapter opens with a great revelation of its supreme condition. Character is everything. The first word is suggesti...
Matthew 5:6 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

HUNGERING AND THIRSTING ‘Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall he filled.’ Matthew 5:6 What does this mean for us? I. For ourselves .—Remember th...
Matthew 5:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 oppres...
Matthew 5:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Ver. 6. Blessed are those that hunger and thirst after righteousness ] The righteousness of Christ bot...
Matthew 5:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness That, instead of desiring the possessions of others, and endeavouring to obtain them by violence or deceit; and instead of coveting this...
Matthew 5:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

From every direction He attracted followers, Galilee mentioned first, but also Decapolis beyond the sea of Galilee, Jerusalem and Judea, and east of Jordan. No doubt their motives for following Him w...
Matthew 5:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount. 3 Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 4 Blessed are they that mourn...
Matthew 5:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

You see many men and women hungering and thirsting after sensual satisfactions, or after sensible enjoyments; these are unhappy, miserable men, they often hunger and thirst, and are not satisfied: bu...
Matthew 5:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT PART 1 REQUIRED ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOUR UNDER THE KINGLY RULE OF HEAVEN (5:1-7). Having travelled widely throughout Galilee, and having proclaimed the need for repentance...
Matthew 5:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT The aim and contents of the “ Sermon .”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and...
Matthew 5:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:1-10 I. The Beatitudes open that discourse which, whatever may be the difficulties of particular parts of it, has always been recognized as the most important part of the New Testament....
Matthew 5:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:1 . And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: For convenience, and quietude, and to be out of the way of traffic, he went up into a mountain. Elevated doctrines would seem...
Matthew 5:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:1 . Seeing the multitudes, assembled from six provinces to see and to hear the great, the promised prophet, who had opened his ministry with glorious miracles. But our Saviour looked upo...
Matthew 5:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

They which do hunger and thirst. Righteousness desired I. A few features of the disposition here commended. The term righteousness is variously used. 1. Sometimes it signifies rectitude. 2....
Matthew 5:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Matthew 5:1 And seeing the multitudes ; i.e. those spoken of in Matthew 4:25 —the multitudes who were at that point of time following him. He went up . From the lower groun...
Matthew 5:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Having named a few negative virtues, the Lord next mentions some positive qualifications which should characterize His disciples: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness; for...
Matthew 5:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Amos 8:11-13 ; Isaiah 25:6 ; Isaiah 41:17 ; Isaiah 44:3 ; Isaiah 49:10 ; Isaiah 49:9 ; Isaiah 55:1-3 ; Isaiah 65:13 ; Isaiah 66:11 ; John 4:14 ; John 6:27 ; John 6:48-58 ; John 7:37 ; L...
Matthew 5:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:1-42 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The key to the Sermon on the Mount is found in Matthew 4:23 : "preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom." Before the Lord sat a great...
Matthew 5:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They that hunger and thirst after righteousness — After the holiness here described. They shall be satisfied with it.

Matthew 5:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Matthew 5:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Matthew 5:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Matthew 5:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Matthew 5:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Matthew 5:6 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Matthew 5:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Matthew 5:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Matthew 5:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Matthew 5:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Matthew 5:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew 5:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Matthew 5:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Matthew 5:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Matthew 5:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:6 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

Matthew 5:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes