Matthew 5:9 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Blessed (enjoying enviable happiness, spiritually prosperous–with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation, regardless of their outward conditions) are the makers and maintainers of peace, for they shall be called the sons of God!

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

“Happy are people who make peace, because they will be called God’s children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Matthew 5:9 Cross References

1 Chronicles 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 there is no wrong in mine hands, the God of our fathers look thereon, and rebuke it.

Psalm 120:6

My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

Psalm 34:12

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

Matthew 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.

Matthew 5:48

Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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.

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 evil.

Acts 7:26

And the next day he showed 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?

Romans 12:18

If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Romans 8:14

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

Romans 8:16

The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Romans 8:19

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

1 Corinthians 6:6

but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

2 Corinthians 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.

2 Corinthians 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.

Galatians 5:22

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

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Philippians 4:2

I beseech Eu-o´di-as, and beseech Syn´tyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

Colossians 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.

Hebrews 12:14

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: