Luke 6:21 Blessed are you that hunger now: for you shall be filled. Blessed are you that weep now: for you shall laugh. He bade them even rejoice; not merely be resigned, but jubilant, and here He struck that keynote of resounding triumph and exhilaration which remains to this day the most original and characteristic sign of the Christian life. Inextinguishable joy in the dungeon — at the stake — amidst ruin and physical pain and loss; that is Christianity. The Stoic bears; the Epicurean submits; the Christian alone exults — "sorrowful, and yet always rejoicing." (H. R. Haweis, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh. |
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