From the Amplified Bible:

Blessed -- enjoying enviable happiness, spiritually prosperous [that is, with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions] -- are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they shall be called the sons of God!

[Matthew 5.9]

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~Blessed are the poor in spirit

~Blessed are those who mourn

~Blessed are the meek

~Blessed are those who hunger

~Blessed are the merciful

~Blessed are the pure in heart