Luke 6:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

Luke 6:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 5:6
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
John 6:35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
James 1:12
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.
Matthew 5:4
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Isaiah 61:1-3
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-26)

Here begins a practical discourse of Christ, which is continued to the end of the chapter, most of which is found in the sermon upon the mount, Matt. 5:1-7:29. Some think that this was preached at some other time and place, and there are other instances of Christ’s preaching the same things, or to the same purport, at different times; but it is probable that this is only the evangelist’s abridgmen…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

20-21. In the Sermon on the Mount the benediction is pronounced upon the “poor in spirit” and those who “hunger and thirst after righteousness” (Mt 5:3, 6). Here it is simply on the “poor” and the “hungry now.” In this form of the discourse, then, our Lord seems to have had in view “the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love Him,” as t…