Matthew 5:9
Good News Translation
"Happy are those who work for peace; God will call them his children!

New Revised Standard Version
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Contemporary English Version
God blesses those people who make peace. They will be called his children!

New American Bible
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

are.

1 Chronicles 12:17 And David went out to meet them, and said: If you are come peaceably to me to help me, let my heart be joined to you: but if you plot against me for my enemies whereas I have no iniquity in my hands, let the God of our fathers see, and judge.

Psalm 34:12 Who is the man that desireth life: who liveth to see good days?

Psalm 120:6 My soul hath been long a sojourner.

Psalm 122:6-8 Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and abundance for them that love thee. . . .

Acts 7:26 And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren. Why hurt you one another?

Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as is in you, have peace with all men.

Romans 14:1-7,17-19 Now him that is weak in faith, take unto you: not in disputes about thoughts. . . .

1 Corinthians 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers.

2 Corinthians 5:20 For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.

2 Corinthians 13:11 For the rest, brethren, rejoice, be perfect, take exhortation, be of one mind, have peace. And the God of grace and of love shall be with you.

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is, charity, joy, peace, patience, benignity, goodness, longanimity,

Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you are called:

Philippians 2:1-3 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of charity, if any society of the spirit, if any bowels of commiseration: . . .

Philippians 4:2 I beg of Evodia and I beseech Syntyche to be of one mind in the Lord.

Colossians 3:13 Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another. Even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.

2 Timothy 2:22-24 But flee thou youthful desires, and pursue justice, faith, charity and peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart. . . .

Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men and holiness: without which no man shall see God.

James 1:19,20 You know, my dearest brethren. And let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak and slow to anger. . . .

James 3:16-18 For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work. . . .

for.

Matthew 5:45,48 That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust. . . .

Psalm 82:6,7 I have said: You are gods and all of you the sons of the most High. . . .

Luke 6:35 But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

Luke 20:36 Neither can they die any more for they are equal to the angels and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Ephesians 5:1,2 Be ye therefore followers of God, as most dear children: . . .

Philippians 2:15,16 That you may be blameless and sincere children of God, without reproof, in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation: among whom you shine as lights in the world. . . .

1 Peter 1:14-16 As children of obedience, not fashioned according to the former desires of your ignorance, . . .

Context
The Beatitudes
8Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God. 9Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. 10Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.…
Cross References
Matthew 5:45
That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.

Luke 6:35
But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest. For he is kind to the unthankful and to the evil.

Romans 8:14
For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Romans 8:16
For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit that we are the sons of God.

Romans 8:19
For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.

James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.

Matthew 5:8
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