Matthew 5:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Matthew 5:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 12:14
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
James 3:16-18
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. …
Romans 12:18
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Psalms 120:6
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 3-12)

Christ begins his sermon with blessings, for he came into the world to bless us (Acts 3:26), as the great High Priest of our profession; as the blessed Melchizedec; as He in whom all the families of the earth should be blessed, Gen. 12:3. He came not only to purchase blessings for us, but to pour out and pronounce blessings on us; and here he does it as one having authority, as one that can comman…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9. Blessed are the peacemakers--who not only study peace, but diffuse it. for they shall be called the children of God--shall be called sons of God. Of all these beatitudes this is the only one which could hardly be expected to find its definite ground in the Old Testament; for that most glorious character of God, the likeness of which appears in the peacemakers, had yet to be revealed. His glorio…