Matthew 5:5
Modern Translations
New International Version
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

New Living Translation
God blesses those who are humble, for they will inherit the whole earth.

English Standard Version
“Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Berean Study Bible
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

New American Standard Bible
“Blessed are the gentle, for they will inherit the earth.

NASB 1995
"Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

NASB 1977
“Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

Amplified Bible
“Blessed [inwardly peaceful, spiritually secure, worthy of respect] are the gentle [the kind-hearted, the sweet-spirited, the self-controlled], for they will inherit the earth.

Christian Standard Bible
Blessed are the humble, for they will inherit the earth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The gentle are blessed, for they will inherit the earth.

Contemporary English Version
God blesses those people who are humble. The earth will belong to them!

Good News Translation
"Happy are those who are humble; they will receive what God has promised!

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Blessed are those who are gentle. They will inherit the earth.

International Standard Version
"How blessed are those who are humble, because it is they who will inherit the earth!

NET Bible
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

New King James Version
Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.

King James 2000 Bible
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

New Heart English Bible
Blessed are the gentle, for they will inherit the earth.

World English Bible
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

American King James Version
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

American Standard Version
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

A Faithful Version
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Darby Bible Translation
Blessed the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

English Revised Version
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Blessed are the meeke: for they shall inherite the earth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Blessed (are) the meke: for they shall inherite the earth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Blessed are the meke: for they shall inheret the erth.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Blessed are the meke: for they shall inheret the erth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Blessed the meek—because they will inherit the land.

Berean Literal Bible
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Young's Literal Translation
'Happy the meek -- because they shall inherit the land.

Smith's Literal Translation
Happy the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Literal Emphasis Translation
Blessed are the meek, because they will inherit the earth.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be consoled.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Blessed are they who are meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Lamsa Bible
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.

Godbey New Testament
Blessed are they that mourn: because they shall be comforted.

Haweis New Testament
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Mace New Testament
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Weymouth New Testament
"Blessed are the meek, for they as heirs shall obtain possession of the earth.

Worrell New Testament
"Happy are the meek: because they shall inherit the earth.

Worsley New Testament
Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.
















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