Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake .
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Gill's Exposition
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you,.... These words are particularly directed to the disciples of Christ, and are designed to inform them, that they should not be exempted from reproach and…
Barnes' Notes
Blessed are ye when men shall revile you - Reproach you; call you by evil and contemptuous names; ridicule you because you are Christians. Thus, they said of Jesus that he was a Samaritan and had a…
Christ begins his sermon with blessings, for he came into the world to bless us (Act 3:26), as the great High Priest of our profession; as the blessed Melchizedec; as He in whom all the families of…
for righteousness" sake.… for my sake Observe these limitations. The causein which a man suffers is everything. Many Galilæan zealots who had been persecuted, reviled, traduced, when they rose against…
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