Matthew 5:8
New International Version
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

New Living Translation
God blesses those whose hearts are pure, for they will see God.

English Standard Version
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Berean Standard Bible
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Berean Literal Bible
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

King James Bible
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

New King James Version
Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.

New American Standard Bible
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

NASB 1995
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

NASB 1977
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Legacy Standard Bible
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Amplified Bible
“Blessed [anticipating God’s presence, spiritually mature] are the pure in heart [those with integrity, moral courage, and godly character], for they will see God.

Christian Standard Bible
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The pure in heart are blessed, for they will see God.

American Standard Version
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Blessed are those who are pure in their hearts, for they shall see God.

Contemporary English Version
God blesses those people whose hearts are pure. They will see him!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.

English Revised Version
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Blessed are those whose thoughts are pure. They will see God.

Good News Translation
"Happy are the pure in heart; they will see God!

International Standard Version
"How blessed are those who are pure in heart, because it is they who will see God!

Literal Standard Version
Blessed the clean in heart—because they will see God.

Majority Standard Bible
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

New American Bible
Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.

NET Bible
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

New Revised Standard Version
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

New Heart English Bible
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Weymouth New Testament
"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

World English Bible
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Young's Literal Translation
'Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God.

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Context
The Beatitudes
7Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. 8Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. 9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.…

Cross References
2 Samuel 22:27
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.

Job 19:26
Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

Psalm 24:4
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully.

Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Psalm 73:1
Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart.

Proverbs 22:11
He who loves a pure heart and gracious lips will have the king for a friend.

Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.


Treasury of Scripture

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

are.

Matthew 23:25-28
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess…

1 Chronicles 29:17-19
I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee…

Psalm 15:2
He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

for.

Genesis 32:30
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.

Job 19:26,27
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: …

1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

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Matthew 5
1. Jesus' sermon on the mount:
3. The Beattitudes;
13. the salt of the earth;
14. the light of the world.
17. He came to fulfill the law.
21. What it is to kill;
27. to commit adultery;
33. to swear.
38. He exhorts to forgive wrong,
43. to love our enemies;
48. and to labor after perfection.














(8) Pure in heart.--Here, as with the poor in spirit, the noun determines the region in which the purity is to be found--the "heart" as representing desires and affections, as the "spirit" represents the will and higher personality. The purity so described is not that which was the ideal of the Pharisee, outward and ceremonial, nor, again, was it limited, as the common language of Christians too often limits it, to the absence of one special form of sensual sin; but it excluded every element of baseness--the impurity of hate or greed of gain, no less than that of lust. Not without cause, however, has the evil of the latter sin so overshadowed the others that it has almost monopolised the name. No single form of evil spreads its taint more deeply than that which "lets in contagion to the inward parts."

Shall see God.--Does the promise find its fulfilment only in the beatific vision of the saints in glory, seeing God as He is (1John 3:2), knowing even as also we are known (1Corinthians 13:12)? Doubtless there, and there only, will be the full fruition which now we wait for; but "purity of heart," so far as it exists, brings with it the power of seeing more than others see in all through which God reveals Himself--the beauty of nature, the inward light, the moral order of the world, the written word, the life and teaching of Christ. Though we see as yet "through a glass," as in a mirror that reflects imperfectly, yet in that glass we behold "the glory of the Lord" (1Corinthians 13:12; 2Corinthians 3:18).

Verse 8. - The pure in heart. Our Lord naturally passes in thought from the sixth to the seventh commandment (cf. vers. 21, 27), finding the basis of his phraseology in Psalm 24:3, 4, "Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?... He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart (LXX. ἀθῶος χερσὶν καὶ καθαρὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ) (cf. also Psalm 72:1). Καθαρός (besides speaking of mere physical cleanness, ch. 27:59) specially refers to freedom from pollution, judged by God's standard of what pollution is, whether it be a matter of ceremonial enactment (meats, Romans 14:20; cf. Mark 7:19; cf. leprosy, Mark 8:2, 3; 10:8, et al.) or of ethical relation (John 13:10, 11; John 15:3); cf. Origen.'Hem. in Joh.,' 73:2 (Meyer), "Every sin soils the soul (Πᾶσα ἁμαρτία ῤύπον ἐντίθησι τῇ ψυχῇ)" (cf. also Bishop Westcott, 'Hebrews,' p. 346). In heart. The seat of the affections (Matthew 6:21; Matthew 22:37) and the understanding (Matthew 13:15), also the central spring of all human words and actions (Matthew 15:19); cf. καθαρὰ καρδία (1 Timothy 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:22), which implies something deeper than καθαρὰ συνείδησις (1 Timothy 3:9; 2 Timothy 1:3). Shall see God. Not in his courts (Psalm 24.) on Mount Moriah, but above; and in one complete vision fully grasped (ὄψονται). The thought of present spiritual sight of God, though, perhaps, hardly to be excluded (contrast Weiss, 'Matthausev.'), is at least swallowed up in the thought of the full and final revelation. Those who are pure in heart, and care not for such sights as lead men into sin, are unconsciously preparing themselves for the great spiritual sight - the beatific vision (Revelation 22:4; cf. 1 John 3:2). In Hebrews 12:14 holiness (ἁγιασμός) is an indispensable quality for such a vision of "the Lord."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Blessed [are]
Μακάριοι (Makarioi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3107: Happy, blessed, to be envied. A prolonged form of the poetical makar; supremely blest; by extension, fortunate, well off.

the
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

pure
καθαροὶ (katharoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 2513: Clean.

in heart,
καρδίᾳ (kardia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2588: Prolonged from a primary kar; the heart, i.e. the thoughts or feelings; also the middle.

for
Ὅτι (Hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

they
αὐτοὶ (autoi)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

will see
ὄψονται (opsontai)
Verb - Future Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.

God.
Θεὸν (Theon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.


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