(3) Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

(6) Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled.

(5) Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

(69) Jesus said, "Blessed are they who have been persecuted within themselves. It is they who have truly come to know the Father. Blessed are the hungry, for the belly of him who desires will be filled."

(3) "Blessed are you who have prior knowledge of the stumbling blocks and who flee alien things. "Blessed are you who are reviled and not esteemed on account of the love their lord has for them. "Blessed are you who weep and are oppressed by those without hope, for you will be released from every bondage.

(11) Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger.

(5) Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

(7) Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.

(2) Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

(9) "Blessings will be on those who are going up to the father.

(4) Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

(18) "Blessings on you who have not been sick, and have known relief before getting sick. The kingdom of god is yours.

(4) "Blessings will be on those who have spoken out and acquired grace for themselves.

(6) "Blessings will be on those who have not seen but yet have believed.

(58) Blessed are ye, ye righteous and elect, For glorious shall be your lot.

(54) Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor, for yours is the Kingdom of Heaven."

(1) Our holy Saviour applied poverty and riches, and the like, both to spiritual things and objects of sense. For when He said, "Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness' sake," He clearly taught us in every circumstance to seek for the martyr who, if poor for righteousness' sake, witnesses that the righteousness which he loves is a good thing; and if he "hunger and thirst for righteousness' sake," testifies that righteousness is the best thing. Likewise he, that weeps and mourns for righteousness' sake, testifies to the best law that it is beautiful. As, then, "those that are persecuted," so also "those that hunger and thirst" for righteousness' sake, are called "blessed" by Him who approves of the true desire, which not even famine can put a stop to. And if "they hunger after righteousness itself," they are blessed. "And blessed are the poor," whether "in spirit" or in circumstances - that is, if for righteousness' sake. It is not the poor simply, but those that have wished to become poor for righteousness' sake, that He pronounces blessed - those who have despised the honours of this world in order to attain "the good;" likewise also those who, through chastity, have become comely in person and character, and those who are of noble birth, and honourable, having through righteousness attained to adoption, and therefore "have received power to become the sons of God," and "to tread on serpents and scorpions," and to rule over demons and "the host of the adversary." And, in fine, the Lord's disciplines draws the soul away gladly from the body, even if it wrench itself away in its removal. "For he that loveth his life shall lose it, and he that loseth his life shall find it," if we only join that which is mortal of us with the immortality of God. It is the will of God [that we should attain] the knowledge of God, which is the communication of immortality. He therefore, who, in accordance with the word of repentance, knows his life to be sinful will lose it - losing it from sin, from which it is wrenched; but losing it, will find it, according to the obedience which lives again to faith, but dies to sin. This, then, is what it is "to find one's life," "to know one's self."

(9) Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

(12) Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.

(10) But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.