Adjective makarios (blessed) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

5: 3"Blessed (makarios) are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
5: 4"Blessed (makarios) are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
5: 5"Blessed (makarios) are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
5: 6"Blessed (makarios) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
5: 7"Blessed (makarios) are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
5: 8"Blessed (makarios) are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
5: 9"Blessed (makarios) are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
5: 10"Blessed (makarios) are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
5: 11"Blessed (makarios) are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
11: 6And blessed (makarios) is anyone who takes no offense at me."
13: 16But blessed (makarios) are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.
16: 17And Jesus answered him, "Blessed (makarios) are you, Simon son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven.
24: 46Blessed (makarios) is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives.

Luke

1: 45And blessed (makarios) is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her by the Lord."
6: 20Then he looked up at his disciples and said: "Blessed (makarios) are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
6: 21"Blessed (makarios) are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. "Blessed (makarios) are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
6: 22"Blessed (makarios) are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man.
7: 23And blessed (makarios) is anyone who takes no offense at me."
10: 23Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately, "Blessed (makarios) are the eyes that see what you see!
11: 27While he was saying this, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed (makarios) is the womb that bore you and the breasts that nursed you!"
11: 28But he said, "Blessed (makarios) rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it!"
12: 37Blessed (makarios) are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them.
12: 38If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed (makarios) are those slaves.
12: 43Blessed (makarios) is that slave whom his master will find at work when he arrives.
14: 14And you will be blessed (makarios), because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."
14: 15One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, "Blessed (makarios) is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!"
23: 29For the days are surely coming when they will say, 'Blessed (makarios) are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'

John

13: 17If you know these things, you are blessed (makarios) if you do them.
20: 29Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed (makarios) are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe."

Acts

20: 35In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, 'It is more blessed (makarios) to give than to receive.'"
26: 2"I consider myself blessed (makarios) that it is before you, King Agrippa, I am to make my defense today against all the accusations of the Jews,