Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Context
This verse from Matthew Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. The Sermon on the Mount begins with the Beatitudes blessing the poor in spirit, mourners, meek, and peacemakers. Jesus declares he has come not to abolish the Law but to fulfill it. Six antitheses intensify the Law's demands: not just …
Other Translations
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called sons of God.
`Happy the peacemakers--because they shall be called Sons of God.
Happy are the peacemakers: for they will be named sons of God.
Cross References
As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
And David went out to meet them, and answered and said unto them, If ye be come peaceably unto me …
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise …
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, …
Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being …
And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, …