Matthew 5:9 - Plain English Version

⁹ Some people help other people to settle down, stop arguing, and agree with each other. God will tell those people, ‘You are my own kids.’ And they will be really happy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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)

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God.

Common English Bible

⁹ “Happy are people who make peace, because they will be called God’s children.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Matthew 5:9 Cross References

Psalm 34:12

Do you want to live well? Do you want a long and happy life?

Matthew 5:45

If you do that, you will be just like your father in heaven. He gets the sun to shine on everybody, bad people as well as good people. And he gets the rain to fall on everybody, good people and bad people too.

Matthew 5:48

So this is what I say. You have to be properly good, just like your father in heaven is properly good.”

Acts 7:26

The next day, Moses saw 2 of his own men fighting, and he tried to get them to stop fighting. He said, ‘You 2 men, you are both family. Why do you hit each other?’

Romans 12:18

Try not to argue with anybody, and try not to fight with anybody.

Romans 8:14

It is like this. God’s kids are those people that listen to his spirit and follow him.

Romans 8:16

And his spirit in us talks to our own spirits, and he tells us, “That is right, you really are God’s kids.”

Romans 8:19

It is like this, everything in the world is waiting for that time when God will set everything right and show everyone who his kids really are.

1 Corinthians 6:6

But no, you don’t do it that way. Instead, one of you Christians goes to the court house people to argue against another Christian. You stand up in front of judges that don’t believe in Jesus Christ, and you get them to sort it out. That’s not the right way to settle your problems.

Galatians 5:22

But if God’s spirit controls people, he gets them to do good things. You know that a good fruit tree always gets good fruit on it. Well, like that, a person with God’s spirit does good things. If you let God’s spirit lead you, he will get you to love God and to love other people. And you will be happy. And you will feel good and quiet inside yourself so that you will not fight with other people. God’s spirit inside you will help you be good to people and not get angry, even if they give you trouble. And he will get you to be friendly to other people, and he will get you to do good things. He will make you the sort of person that other people can trust.

Ephesians 4:1

So now, even though I’m in jail because I follow Jesus, I’m asking you strongly to live the right way. You see, God picked you to be his own people, so you have to live his way.

Philippians 4:2

Now I just want to talk to Yuwodia and Sintiki. I ask you 2 women very strongly to stop arguing with each other, and to try to think the same way as each other. Remember, you both belong to our leader Jesus.

Colossians 3:13

Don’t get upset with each other. If somebody does something bad to you, don’t do payback to them. Remember that God doesn’t do payback to you, for the bad things that you do. So don’t do payback to other people.