Matthew 5:9

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Summary

Matthew 5:9

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

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General references

Romans 12:18

Bible References

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the next day seeing some that were fighting, he would have persuaded them to agree, saying, sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye injure one another?

do all you can to live peaceably, if it be possible, with all mankind.

A weak convert receive as a friend without regard to any difference of opinion.

but when a contest arises, you must refer the decision to infidels?

we then are ambassadors for Christ, and 'tis God who makes you the offers by us: we pray you in the name of Christ, to make your peace with God.

Finally, brethren, be cheerful: redress yourselves, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

but the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, sweetness of disposition, beneficence, faithfulness, meekness, temperance:

I therefore the prisoner for the Lord, beseech you to live suitably to the offers that have been made to you:

If then there be any christian consolation, any charitable relief, any communion of the spirit, if any tenderness of compassion,

I conjure Euodias, and I conjure Syntyche to be perfectly united in the Lord.

bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, when one has any cause of complaint against another: as the Lord forgave you, do you likewise forgive.

Avoid the passions of youth. pursue justice, fidelity, benevolence and concord with all sincere christians.

seek peace with all men, and sanctity of life, without which no man shall see the Lord:

Wherefore, my dear brethren, let every one be eager to hear, averse to contradiction, and deaf to passion.

where false zeal, and a spirit of contention reign, there confusion and every vice prevail.

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that ye may be the children of your father who is in heaven, for he causes his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

but as for you, love your enemies, do good, and lend without expecting any advantage from it: so shall your reward be great, in acting like the children of the most high: for he is kind to the most ungrateful wretches.

for by the resurrection they will inherit a nature truely angelical and divine.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as his dear children; live together in love,

that you may be without reproach, the inoffensive spotless children of God in the midst of a depraved and perverse generation (among whom you should shine as stars in the world,

as obedient children be no longer influenc'd by those passions, which were the effects of your former ignorance.

General references

do all you can to live peaceably, if it be possible, with all mankind.