Matthew 5:9

Peacemakers are blessed, for they will be called children of God. It commends those who make peace as resembling their heavenly Father.

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• Heb 12:14Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
• Jas 3:16–18For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
• Rom 12:18If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• Ps 120:6My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
• Rom 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
• Luke 6:35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
• Rom 14:17–19For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
• Eph 5:1–2Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
• 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
• Jas 1:19–20Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
• Ps 122:6–8Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
• 2 Tim 2:22–24Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Ps 82:6–7I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
• Col 3:13Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
• Rom 14:1–7Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
• Matt 5:48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
• Phil 2:15–16That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
• Ps 34:12What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
• 1 Pet 1:14–16As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
• Phil 2:1–3If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
• 2 Cor 5:20Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
• Acts 7:26And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
• Matt 5:45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
• Luke 20:36Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
• 1 Chr 12:17And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.
• Phil 4:2I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
• 1 Cor 6:6But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

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