Matthew 5:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Happy the peacemakers -- because they shall be called Sons of God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μακάριοι οἱ εἰρηνοποιοί: ὅτι αὐτοὶ υἱοὶ Θεοῦ κληθήσονται.

Transliteration

Makarioi the eirēnopoioi: hoti they huioi Theou klēthēsontai.

Grammar Details

• *Makarioi*: nominative masculine plural adjective - blessed/happy
• *eirēnopoioi*: nominative masculine plural - peacemakers
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for
• *huioi*: nominative masculine plural - sons
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *klēthēsontai*: future passive indicative, 3rd person plural - will be called

Word Meanings

• *Makarioi*: blessed/happy/fortunate
• *eirēnopoioi*: peacemakers/those who make peace
• *huioi*: sons/children/descendants
• *Theou*: of God/divine
• *klēthēsontai*: will be called/named/designated

Referenced Verses

• Heb 12:14 : 14 peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
• Luke 6:35 : 35 `But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again, and your reward will be great, and ye shall be sons of the Highest, because He is kind unto the ungracious and evil;
• Rom 8:14 : 14 for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God;
• Jas 3:16-18 : 16 for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter; 17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: -- 18 and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.
• Col 3:13 : 13 forbearing one another, and forgiving each other, if any one with any one may have a quarrel, as also the Christ did forgive you -- so also ye;
• Rom 12:18 : 18 If possible -- so far as in you -- with all men being in peace;
• Matt 5:45 : 45 that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.
• Ps 120:6 : 6 Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.
• Eph 5:1-2 : 1 Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved, 2 and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
• Jas 1:19-20 : 19 So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, 20 for the wrath of a man the righteousness of God doth not work;
• Gal 5:22 : 22 And the fruit of the Spirit is: Love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith,
• Ps 82:6-7 : 6 I -- I have said, `Gods ye `are', And sons of the Most High -- all of you, 7 But as man ye die, and as one of the heads ye fall,
• 2 Cor 5:20 : 20 in behalf of Christ, then, we are ambassadors, as if God were calling through us, we beseech, in behalf of Christ, `Be ye reconciled to God;'
• 2 Cor 13:11 : 11 Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;
• Rom 14:1-7 : 1 And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings; 2 one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs; 3 let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him. 4 Thou -- who art thou that art judging another's domestic? to his own master he doth stand or fall; and he shall be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. 5 One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day `alike'; let each in his own mind be fully assured. 6 He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard `it', and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard `it'. He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God. 7 For none of us to himself doth live, and none to himself doth die;
• Matt 5:48 : 48 ye shall therefore be perfect, as your Father who `is' in the heavens is perfect.
• Luke 20:36 : 36 for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.
• 2 Tim 2:22-24 : 22 and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart; 23 and the foolish and uninstructed questions be avoiding, having known that they beget strife, 24 and a servant of the Lord it behoveth not to strive, but to be gentle unto all, apt to teach, patient under evil,
• Phil 2:1-3 : 1 If, then, any exhortation `is' in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of spirit, if any bowels and mercies, 2 fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing -- having the same love -- of one soul -- minding the one thing, 3 nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
• Phil 2:15-16 : 15 that ye may become blameless and harmless, children of God, unblemished in the midst of a generation crooked and perverse, among whom ye do appear as luminaries in the world, 16 the word of life holding forth, for rejoicing to me in regard to a day of Christ, that not in vain did I run, nor in vain did I labour;
• 1 Pet 1:14-16 : 14 as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves to the former desires in your ignorance, 15 but according as He who did call you `is' holy, ye also, become holy in all behaviour, 16 because it hath been written, `Become ye holy, because I am holy;'
• Phil 4:2 : 2 Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord;
• Acts 7:26 : 26 `On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?
• Ps 122:6-8 : 6 Ask ye the peace of Jerusalem, At rest are those loving thee. 7 Peace is in thy bulwark, rest in thy high places, 8 For the sake of my brethren and my companions, Let me speak, I pray thee, `Peace `be' in thee.'
• 1 Chr 12:17 : 17 and David goeth out before them, and answereth and saith to them, `If for peace ye have come in unto me, to help me, I have a heart to unite with you; and if to betray me to mine adversaries -- without violence in my hands -- the God of our fathers doth see and reprove.'
• Ps 34:12 : 12 Who `is' the man that is desiring life? Loving days to see good?
• Rom 14:17-19 : 17 for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit; 18 for he who in these things is serving the Christ, `is' acceptable to God and approved of men. 19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
• 1 Cor 6:6 : 6 but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!