Matthew 5:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Matthew 5:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 4:32
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Matthew 6:14-15
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: …
2 Samuel 22:26
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright.
Matthew 18:33-35
Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee? …
Psalms 18:25
With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt shew thyself upright;

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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 comman…

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

(vv. 7)

7. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy--Beautiful is the connection between this and the preceding beatitude. The one has a natural tendency to beget the other. As for the words, they seem directly fetched from Psa 18:25, “With the merciful Thou wilt show Thyself merciful.” Not that our mercifulness comes absolutely first. On the contrary, our Lord Himself expressly teaches us th…