Matthew 5:10

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Blessed are they which suffre persecucio for rightwesnes sake: for theirs ys the kyngdome of heuen.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μακάριοι οἱ δεδιωγμένοι ἕνεκεν δικαιοσύνης: ὅτι αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.

Transliteration

Makarioi the dediōgmenoi heneken dikaiosynēs: hoti of-them estin the basileia of-the ouranōn.

Grammar Details

• *Makarioi*: nominative masculine plural adjective - blessed/happy
• *dediōgmenoi*: perfect passive participle, nominative masculine plural - having been persecuted
• *heneken*: preposition with genitive - for the sake of/because of
• *dikaiosynēs*: genitive feminine singular - of righteousness
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *basileia*: nominative feminine singular - kingdom/reign
• *ouranōn*: genitive masculine plural - of heavens

Word Meanings

• *Makarioi*: blessed/happy/fortunate
• *dediōgmenoi*: persecuted/pursued/harassed
• *heneken*: because of/for the sake of/on account of
• *dikaiosynēs*: righteousness/justice/uprightness
• *basileia*: kingdom/reign/rule
• *ouranōn*: heavens/skies

Referenced Verses

• Jas 1:12 : 12 Happy is the man that endureth in temptacion for when he is tryed he shall receave the croune of lyfe which the Lorde hath promysed to them that love him.
• 1 Pet 3:13-14 : 13 Moreover who is it that will harme you yf ye folowe yt which is good? 14 Not withstondynge happy are ye yf ye suffre for rightewesnessis sake. Ye and feare not though they seme terrible vnto you nether be troubled:
• 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For oure excedinge tribulacion which is momentany and light prepareth an excedinge and an eternall wayght of glorye
• 2 Tim 3:11 : 11 persecucions and affliccions which happened vnto me at Antioche at Iconium and at lystra: which persecucions I suffered paciently. And from them all the LORde delivered me.
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are troubled on every side yet are we not with out shyft. We are in povertie: but not vtterly without somwhat. 9 We are persecuted: but are not forsake. We are cast doune: neverthelesse we perisshe not. 10 And we all wayes beare in oure bodyes the dyinge of the Lorde Iesus that the lyfe of Iesu myght appere in oure bodyes. 11 For we which live are alwayes delyvered vnto deeth for Iesus sake yt the lyfe also of Iesu myght appere in oure mortall flesshe. 12 So then deeth worketh in vs and lyfe in you.
• Matt 5:3 : 3 Blessed are the povre in sprete: for theirs is the kyngdome of heven.
• Matt 25:34 : 34 Then shall the kynge saye to them on his right honde: Come ye blessed chyldren of my father inheret ye the kyngdo prepared for you from the beginninge of the worlde.
• Luke 6:22 : 22 Blessed are ye when men hate you and thrust you oute of their companye and rayle and abhorre youre name as an evyll thinge for the sonne of manes sake.
• Jas 1:2-5 : 2 My brethren count it excedynge ioye when ye faule into divers teptacions 3 for as moche as ye knowe how that the tryinge of youre fayth bringeth pacience: 4 and let pacience have her parfect worke that ye maye be parfecte and sounde lackinge nothinge. 5 Yf eny of you lacke wysdome let him axe of God which geveth to all men indifferentlie and casteth no man in the teth: and it shal be geven him.
• 2 Tim 2:12 : 12 Yf we be pacient we shall also raigne wt him. If we denye him he also shall denye vs.
• Phil 1:28 : 28 and in nothynge fearinge youre adversaries: which is to them a token of perdicion and to you of salvacion and that of God.
• Luke 6:20 : 20 And he lifted vp his eyes apon the disciples and sayde: Blessed be ye poore: for yours is the kyngdome of God.
• 1 Cor 4:9-9 : 9 Me thinketh that God hath set forth vs which are Apostles for the lowest of all as it were me appoynted to deeth. For we are a gasyngestocke vnto the worlde and to ye angels and to men. 10 We are foles for Christes sake and ye are wyse thorow Christ. We are weake and ye are stroge. Ye are honorable and we are despised. 11 Eve vnto this daye we honger and thyrst and are naked and are boffetted wt fistes and have no certayne dwellinge place 12 and laboure workinge with oure awne hondes. We are revysed and yet we blesse. We are persecuted and suffer it. 13 We are evyll spoken of and we praye. We are made as it were the filthynes of the worlde the ofscowringe of all thinges even vnto this tyme.
• Luke 21:12 : 12 But before all these they shall laye their hondes on you and persecute you delyueringe you vp to the sinagoges and into preson and bringe you before kynges and rulers for my names sake.
• John 15:20 : 20 Remember the sayinge that I sayde vnto you: the servaute is not greater then his LORde. Yf they have persecuted me so will they persecute you Yf they have kept my sayinge so will they kepe youres.
• 1 Pet 4:12-16 : 12 Dearly beloved be not troubled in this heate which now is come amoge you to trye you as though some strauge thinge had happened vnto you: 13 but reioyce in as moche as ye are partetakers of Christes passions that when his glory appereth ye maye be mery and glad. 14 If ye be rayled vpon for the name of Christ happie are ye. For the sprete of glory and the sprete of god resteth apon you. On their parte he is evyll spoken of: but on youre parte he is glorified. 15 Se that none of you suffre as a murtherer or as a thefe or an evyll doar or as a busybody in other mens matters. 16 Yf eny man suffre as a Christe man let him not be ashamed: but let him glorifie god on his behalfe.
• Rev 2:10 : 10 Feare none of thoo thynges which thou shalt soffre. Beholde the devyll shall caste of you into preson to tempte you and ye shall have tribulacion.x. dayes. Be faythfull vnto the deeth and I will geve the a croune of lyfe.
• Matt 10:23 : 23 When they persecute you in one cite flye in to another. I tell you for a treuth ye shall not fynysshe all yt cities of Israel tyll ye sonne of man be come.
• Acts 8:1 : 1 Saul had pleasure in his deeth. And at yt tyme there was a great persecucion agaynst the congregacion which was at Ierusalem and they were all scattered abroade thorowout the regions of Iury and Samaria except the Apostles
• Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall seperate vs fro the love of god? shall tribulacion? or anguysshe? or persecucion? other honger? other nakednesse? other parell? other swearde? 36 As it is written: For thy sake are we kylled all daye longe and are counted as shepe apoynted to be slayne. 37 Neverthelesse in all these thinges we overcome strongly thorow his helpe that loved vs. 38 Ye and I am sure that nether deeth nether lyfe nether angels nor rule nether power nether thinges present nether thinges to come 39 nether heyth nether loweth nether eny other creature shalbe able to departe vs fro ye love of God shewed in Christ Iesu oure LORde.
• 2 Thess 1:4-7 : 4 so yt we oureselves reioyce of you in the congregacions of God over youre pacience and fayth in all youre persecucions and tribulacios that ye suffre 5 which is a token of ye ryghtewes iudgemet of god that ye are counted worthy of the kyngdom of god for which ye also suffre. 6 It is verely a rightewes thinge with God to recopence tribulacion to them that trouble you: 7 and to you which are troubled rest with vs when the LORde Iesus shall shewe him silfe from heven with his myghty angels
• Mark 10:30 : 30 which shall not receave an houndred foolde nowe in this lyfe: houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and chyldren and londes with persecucions: and in the worlde to come eternall lyfe.
• Acts 5:40 : 40 And to him they agreed and called the Apostles and bet them and comaunded that they shuld not speake in ye name of Iesu and let them goo.
• 1 John 3:12 : 12 not as Cayn which was of the wicked and slewe his brother. And wherfore slewe he him? Because his awne workes were evyll and his brothers good.