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"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
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What "Poor in Spirit" Means
Commentators are clear this isn't about financial status but a spiritual posture. To be "poor in spirit" is to recognize your complete spiritual bankruptcy before God. It means acknowledging your sinfulness, having no righteousness of your own, and depending entirely on God's grace and mercy for salvation. As multiple scholars state, it is the humble foundation upon which all other Christian virtues are built.
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Matthew
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Blessed are the poor in spirit. The word blessed means happy, referring to that which produces true happiness, from what…
Blessed (μακαριο). The English word "blessed" is more exactly represented by the Greek verbal ευλογητο as in Lu 1:68 of God by Zac…
19th Century
Anglican
Blessed — The word used here differs from the one in Matthew 23:39 and Matthew 25:34. It expresses a permanent state of blessednes…
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Baptist
Saying, Blessed—
The Old Testament closes with the word "curse." The New Testament begins here, in the preaching of Christ, with the…
(38–39a) The OT prescription of the lex talionis (Exodus 21:24; Leviticus 24:19–20) was not given to foster vengeance; the …
16th Century
Protestant
Happy are the poor in spirit. Luke 6:20. Happy (are you) poor. Luke gives nothing more than a simple metaphor.…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Blessed are the poor in spirit Not the poor in purse, or who are so with respect to things temporal: for though God …
Our Savior here gives eight characteristics of blessed people, which represent to us the principal graces of a Christian.
The poor …
13th Century
Catholic
The Evangelist, above, set forth a kind of brief preamble to Christ’s teaching; now he relates the teaching itself and its effect, namely, the admi…