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7Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.

Matthew 5:7

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

  • For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: …

  • With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.

  • Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? …

  • With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

Commentary

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

(vv. 3-12)

Christ begins his sermon with blessings, for he came into the world to bless us (Acts 3:26), as the great High Priest of our profession ; as the blessed Melchizedec ; as He in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed , Gen. 12:3. He came not only to purchase blessings for us, but to pour out and pronounce blessings on us; and here he does it as one having authority , as one that can co…

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