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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1 Peter 1:14

General references

Romans 12:18

Bible References

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David went out to meet them, and answered them, "If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart shall be knit to 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 look thereon, and rebuke it."

Who is someone who desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?

My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

"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?'

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers!

We 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.

Finally, 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.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

I exhort Euodia, and I exhort Syntyche, to think the same way in the Lord.

bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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that 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.

I said, "You are gods, all of you are sons of the Most High.

But 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.

For they can't die any more, for they are like the angels, and are children of God, being children of the resurrection.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

General references

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.