Various Bible translations of to hunger and thirst for righteousness

Amplified:  Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied! (Amplified Bible – Lockman)
Barclay: O the bliss of the man who longs for total righteousness as a starving man longs for food, and a man perishing of thirst longs from after, for man will be truly satisfied.
ICB: Those who want to do right more than anything else are happy. God will fully satisfy them.
KJV: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Philips: Happy are those who are hungry and thirsty for goodness, for they will be fully satisfied! (New Testament in Modern English)
Wuest:  Spiritually prosperous are those hungering and thirsting for righteousness, because they themselves shall be filled so as to be completely satisfied. (Eerdmans)
Young’s Literal: Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness–because they shall be filled.

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