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.

Cross-references · 29

• Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
• Jas 3:16–18For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
• Rom 12:18If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Ps 120:6My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
• Rom 8:14For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.
• Luke 6:35But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing back; and your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.
• Rom 14:17–19for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
• Eph 5:1–2Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
• 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
• Jas 1:19–20So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;
• Ps 122:6–8Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.
• 2 Tim 2:22–24Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Ps 82:6–7I said, “You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.
• Col 3:13bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.
• Rom 14:1–7Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.
• Matt 5:48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
• Phil 2:15–16that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
• Ps 34:12Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
• 1 Pet 1:14–16as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
• Phil 2:1–3If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,
• 2 Cor 5:20We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
• Acts 7:26“The day following, he appeared to them as they fought, and urged them to be at peace again, saying, ‘Sirs, you are brothers. Why do you wrong one another?’
• Matt 5:45that you may be children of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.
• Luke 20:36For they can’t die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.
• 1 Chr 12:17David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
• Phil 4:2I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.
• 1 Cor 6:6But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!
• Eph 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

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