²¹ Blessed (happy—^[a]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and ^[b]to be envied) are you who hunger and seek with eager desire now, for you shall be filled and completely satisfied! Blessed (happy—^[c]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and ^[d]to be envied) are you who weep and sob now, for you shall laugh!

²² Blessed (happy—^[e]with life-joy and satisfaction in God’s favor and salvation, apart from your outward condition—and ^[f]to be envied) are you when people despise (hate) you, and when they exclude and excommunicate you [as disreputable] and revile and denounce you and defame and cast out and spurn your name as evil (wicked) on account of the Son of Man.

²³ Rejoice and be glad at such a time and exult and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is rich and great and strong and intense and abundant in heaven; for even so their forefathers treated the prophets.