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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Romans 12:18

Bible References

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On the following day, also, he appeared to them while they were fighting and he was urging them to peace, saying, 'Men, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one another?'

if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men;

But him that is weak in the faith receive ye, yet not for decisions of scruples.

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

On behalf of Christ, therefore, we are ambassadors, as though God were beseeching through us, we entreat you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God

Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected, be comforted, think the same thing; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,

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

If there is, therefore, any consolation in Christ, if any encouragement of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender affections and compassions,

I entreat Euodia, and I entreat Syntiche, to think the same thing in the Lord.

(bearing with one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any one have a complaint against any; even as the Lord freely forgave you, so also do ye):

But flee youthful desires; and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart.

Pursue peace with all, and the holiness without which no one shall see the Lord;

Ye know this, my beloved brethren; but let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;

For where there are jealousy and contention, there is confusion and every vile deed.

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that ye may be sons of your Father Who is in Heaven; because He causeth His sun to rise on evil men and on good, and sendeth rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

"But love your enemies; and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and ye will be sons of the Most High; because He is kind to the unthankful and evil.

for neither can they die any more; for they are equal to the angels, and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection.

Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children;

that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, irreproachable in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom ye appear as luminaries in the world,

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance;

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if it be possible, so far as it depends on you, being at peace with all men;