12rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.


In Context

9 Happy the peacemakers — because they shall be called Sons of God.

10 Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake — because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

11 Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake —

12 rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

13 'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

14 'Ye are the light of the world, a city set upon a mount is not able to be hid;

Matthew 5:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great [is] your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Be glad and rejoice, for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.