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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Next day he came upon two of them fighting and tried to pacify them. "You are brothers!" he said, "why injure one another?"

be at peace with all men, if possible, so far as that depends on you.

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples.

instead of one brother going to law with another ??and before unbelievers too!

So I am an envoy for Christ, God appealing by me, as it were ??be reconciled to God, I entreat you on behalf of Christ.

Now brothers, goodbye; mend your ways, listen to what I have told you, live in harmony, keep the peace; then the God of love and peace will be with you.

But the harvest of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, good temper, kindliness, generosity, fidelity,

As the Lord's prisoner, then, I beg of you to live a life worthy of your calling,

So by all the stimulus of Christ, by every incentive of love, by all your participation in the Spirit, by all your affectionate tenderness,

I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

So shun the lusts of youth and aim at integrity, faith, love and peace, in the company of those who invoke the Lord out of a pure heart.

Aim at peace with all ??and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord;

Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry ??20 for human anger does not promote divine righteousness;

for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil.

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that you may be sons of your Father in heaven: he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust.

No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.

for they cannot die any more; they are equal to angels and by sharing in the resurrection they are sons of God.

Copy God, then, as his beloved children,

so as to be blameless and innocent, faultless children of God in a crooked and perverse generation where you shine like stars in a dark world;

Be obedient children, instead of moulding yourselves to the passions that once ruled the days of your ignorance;

General references

be at peace with all men, if possible, so far as that depends on you.