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Matthew 5:9

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

KJV

μακάριοι οἱ εἰρηνοποιοί, ὅτι υἱοὶ θεοῦ κληθήσονται.

Greek NT

Beati pacifici : quoniam filii Dei vocabuntur.

Vulgate

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

ASV

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

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In the original Greek

7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰρηνοποιός
eirenopoios
adjective · 1×
θεός
theos
noun · 1311×
καλέω
kaleo
verb · 148×
μακάριος
makarios
adjective · 50×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

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Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1716The Beatitudes are at the heart of Jesus' preaching. They take up the promises made to the chosen people since Abraham. the Beatitudes fulfill the promises by ordering them no longer merely to the possession of a territory, but to the Kingdom of heaven: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.…
§2305Earthly peace is the image and fruit of the peace of Christ, the messianic "Prince of Peace."99 By the blood of his Cross, "in his own person he killed the hostility,"100 he reconciled men with God and made his Church the sacrament of the unity of the human race and of its union with God. "He is our peace."101 He has declared: "Blessed are the peacemakers."102
2. Whence then does He begin? And what kind of foundations of His new polity does He lay for us? Let us hearken with strict attention unto what is said. For though it was spoken unto them, it was written for the sake also of all men afterwards. And accordingly on this account, though He had His disciples in His mind in His public preaching, yet unto them He limits not His sayin…
The Unity and Harmony of Scripture. Blessed are the peacemakers.... Matthew 5:9 To the man who is a peacemaker in either sense there is in the Divine oracles nothing crooked or perverse, for they are all plain to those who understand. Proverbs 8:8-9 And because to such an one there is nothing crooked or perverse, he sees therefore abundance of peace in all the Scriptures, even …
Abba Arsenius said, "Try to live in peace with all men, for if you are at peace with men, God will be at peace with you."
Blessed are the peacemakers. It is the duty of every child of God to follow peace with all men. He is to do all possible good to every man and avoid all possible harm. He shall be called a son of God — he shall be acknowledged by God as bearing the divine likeness. And blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for great is their reward in heaven.
Q. Is it enough then that we do not kill our neighbor in any such way? A. No. By condemning envy, hatred, and anger God tells us to love our neighbors as ourselves, to be patient, peace-loving, gentle, merciful, and friendly to them, to protect them from harm as much as we can, and to do good even to our enemies.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 12:17 — And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me to help me, mine heart shall be knit unto you: but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies, seeing
  • 1Cor 6:6 — But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
  • 1Pet 1:14 — As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
  • 1Pet 3:11 — Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
  • 2Cor 5:20 — Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
  • 2Cor 13:11 — Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
  • 2Tim 2:22 — Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  • Acts 7:26 — And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?
  • Col 3:13 — Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
  • Eph 4:1 — I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
  • Eph 5:1 — Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children;
  • Gal 5:22 — But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
  • Gen 13:8 — And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.
  • Heb 12:14 — Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
  • Jas 1:19 — Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
  • Jas 3:16 — For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
  • Jas 3:18 — And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
  • Luke 6:35 — But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the ev
  • Luke 20:36 — Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
  • Matt 5:45 — That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
  • Matt 5:45 — That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
  • Matt 5:48 — Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
  • Phil 2:1 — If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
  • Phil 2:15 — That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
  • Phil 4:2 — I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.
  • Prov 12:20 — Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
  • Prov 15:18 — A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
  • Ps 34:12 — What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
  • Ps 34:14 — Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
  • Ps 82:6 — I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
  • Ps 120:6 — My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
  • Ps 120:7 — I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
  • Ps 122:6 — Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
  • Rom 8:14 — For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
  • Rom 12:18 — If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
  • Rom 12:18 — If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
  • Rom 14:1 — Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
  • Rom 14:17 — For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
  • Rom 14:19 — Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
  • Zech 8:16 — These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: