9Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
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Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. …
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.
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 co…
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