Matthew 5:9

Easy To Read Version

What great blessings there are for the people that work to bring peace!\par God will call them his sons and daughters.\par

Cross References

1 Chronicles 12:17

David went out to meet them. David said to them, “If you have come in peace to help me, I welcome you. Join me. But if you have come to spy on me when I have done nothing wrong, then may the God of our ancestors see what you did and punish you.”

Psalm 120:6

I have lived too long with people\par who hate peace.\par

Psalm 34:12

If a person loves life\par and wants to live a good, long life,\par

Matthew 5:45

If you do this, then you will be true sons of your Father in heaven. Your Father lets the sun rise for the good people and the bad people. Your Father sends rain to people that do good and to people that do wrong.

Matthew 5:48

So you must be perfect, the same as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Luke 20:36

In that life people are like angels and cannot die. They are children of God, because they have been raised from death.

Luke 6:35

“I’m telling you to love your enemies and do good to them. Lend to people without expecting to get anything back. If you do these things, you will have a great reward. You will be children of the Most High (God). Yes, because God is good even to the people that are full of sin and not thankful.

Acts 7:26

The next day, Moses saw two Jewish men fighting. He tried to make peace between them. He said, ‘Men, you are brothers! Why are you doing wrong to each other?’

Romans 12:18

Do the best you can to live in peace with all people.

Romans 8:14

The true children of God are those people that let God’s Spirit lead them.

Romans 8:16

And the Spirit himself joins with our spirits to say we are God’s children.

Romans 8:19

Everything that God made is waiting with excitement for the time when God will show the world who his children are. The whole world wants very much for that to happen.

1 Corinthians 6:6

But now one brother goes to court against another brother. You let men that are not believers judge their case!

2 Corinthians 13:11

Now, brothers and sisters, I say good-bye. Try to be perfect. Do the things I have asked you to do. Agree in your minds with each other, and live in peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.

Galatians 5:22

But the Spirit {\cf2\super [74]} gives love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Ephesians 4:1

I am in prison because I belong to the Lord. And God chose you to be his people. I tell you now to live the way God’s people should live.

Philippians 4:2

I ask Euodia and Syntyche to agree in the Lord.

Colossians 3:13

Don’t be angry with each other, but forgive each other. If another person does something wrong against you, then forgive that person. Forgive other people because the Lord forgave you.

Hebrews 12:14

Try to live in peace with all people. And try to live lives free from sin. If a person’s life is not holy, {\cf2\super [160]} then he will never see the Lord.