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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And the next day he came to them, as they were two of them fighting, and would have persuaded them to agree, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren, why do ye injure one another?

If it be possible, as much as ye can, live peaceably with all men.

Receive him that is weak in the faith, but not to disputes about doubtful matters:

But one brother goeth to law with another, and this before infidels.

We are therefore ambassadors for Christ, and as God exhorteth you by us, we intreat you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

Finally, my brethren, farewel: be reformed, be exhorted, be of one 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, long-suffering,

I therefore, a prisoner for the sake of the Lord, exhort you to walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all humility and meekness;

If therefore there be any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any participation of the Spirit,

I exhort Euodia, and Syntyche to be perfectly united in the Lord.

bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any one has a complaint against any: even as Christ hath forgiven you, so also do ye.

Flee youthful passions: and follow righteousness, fidelity, love, and peace, with all those that call upon the Lord out of a pure heart:

Follow peace with all men; and holiness, without which none shall see the Lord:

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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that ye may be the children of your heavenly Father; for He causeth his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain upon the just and the unjust.

But do ye love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing from it: and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the sons of the most High; for He is kind even to the ungrateful and the wicked:

for they can die no more, being like the angels: and they are the children of God as being the children of the resurrection.

Be ye therefore imitators of God as his dear children; and walk in love,

that ye may be blameless and inoffensive, the children of God without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation; among whom ye shine as lights in the world,

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

General references

If it be possible, as much as ye can, live peaceably with all men.