LUMINVIAUna luz para tu camino.BIBLE GLOSSARY
WHAT IT MEANS
Favoured, fortunate or deeply happy; in other settings, the word can express praise or a blessing spoken over someone.
IN BIBLICAL CONTEXT
In the Beatitudes, Jesus calls people blessed in circumstances that do not always look successful or comfortable. The passage gives the word its particular meaning.
AN EVERYDAY EXAMPLE
Blessed can describe a deeper good than material comfort or immediate success.
RELATED PASSAGES
Read the surrounding chapter to understand the word in its setting.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Read in contextActs 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
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