Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord. Both peace and holiness are essential marks of those who belong to God.

Cross-references · 40

• 2 Cor 7:1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• 1 Pet 1:15–16but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;
• 1 Th 4:7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
• Matt 5:8–9Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
• Rom 12:18If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
• 1 Pet 3:11Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
• Prov 16:7When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• Rom 14:19So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
• Ps 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.
• 1 Th 3:13to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.
• Rom 6:22But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.
• 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
• Eph 5:5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
• Isa 51:1“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
• Rev 22:11–15He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”
• Heb 12:10For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.
• Prov 15:1A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
• 1 Tim 6:11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
• 1 Pet 3:13Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good?
• Mark 9:50Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
• Ps 120:6My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
• Gal 5:22–23But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• 1 Jn 3:2–3Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.
• Jas 3:17–18But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• 1 Cor 1:10Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
• Gen 13:7–9There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites lived in the land at that time.
• Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
• 2 Pet 3:11Therefore since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,
• Rev 21:24–27The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Luke 1:75In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.
• Rev 22:3–4There will be no curse any more. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants serve him.
• Ps 133:1A Song of Ascents. By David. See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
• Ps 38:20They who also render evil for good are adversaries to me, because I follow what is good.
• Job 19:26After my skin is destroyed, then in my flesh shall I see God,
• Ps 94:15For judgment will return to righteousness. All the upright in heart shall follow it.
• Eph 4:1–8I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,
• Job 33:26He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
• 1 Th 5:15See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.
• Phil 3:12Not that I have already obtained, or am already made perfect; but I press on, if it is so that I may take hold of that for which also I was taken hold of by Christ Jesus.

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