The Greek word for “peaceable” literally means “peacemakers.”

11. How can we be peacemakers in our ministry?

¹¹ How can we be peacemakers in our ministry?

The Bible contains numerous other examples that instruct us to be peacemakers.

When we are confronted with situations that threaten the peaceful unity of the congregation, should not our appreciatively reflecting on God’s example move us to be peacemakers?

In this article, we will consider how love helps us to be peacemakers, to be impartial, and to be hospitable.

19. How do we prove that we are Jesus’ disciples, and what are you determined to do?

¹⁹ We have examined how having intense love for one another can help us to be peacemakers, to be impartial, and to be hospitable.

The Greek word here rendered “peaceable” literally means “peacemakers.”

If we are peacemakers, we will not condone or participate in anything, such as slanderous talk, that could ‘separate those familiar with one another.’ (Prov. 16:28)

That means that we must be “peacemakers,” as our Kingdom Interlinear renders Matthew 5:9.

It is not easy to be peacemakers, to work for peace, to try to preserve the peace.

Genuine Christians are peace lovers and peacemakers.​—Matt. 5:9, ftn.

• In what areas should we try to be peacemakers, and how?

The original Greek word means “peacemakers.”

If God’s servants strive to be peacemakers, then problems among them will be kept to a minimum.

Hence, they are indeed “peacemakers,” exerting themselves to help others to enjoy peace with God and with their fellowmen.

Why, then, can it be said that such peacemakers must be well armed?

Fulfilling Our Declaration as Peacemakers

They resolved to be peacemakers. (Matt. 5:9)

After all the display that men of world affairs have made of themselves as peacemakers and peace-keepers, you have properly lost confidence in the ability of men to do such a colossal thing.

8. What beatitude of Christ may the newly sworn-in president have had in mind, but what Bible prophecy did he definitely have in mind?

⁸ Possibly the president had in mind the famous words of the Man of whom he claims to be a follower, as recorded by Jesus’ biographer Matthew Levi: “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matt. 5:9, AV)

As true peacemakers their faith is not divided by nationalism, race or politics, but they work unitedly in all parts of the world under the supreme direction of Jehovah and his King Son, Christ Jesus.

Shepherding and harvesting are both peaceful pursuits and they well illustrate the activity of true peacemakers today.

Now he is an ardent backer and defender of Jehovah’s witnesses, finding them to be the greatest peacemakers ever to bless his district.

“Although not one of Jehovah’s witnesses, the chief talks highly of these cheerful peacemakers.

TRUE CHRISTIANS ARE PEACEMAKERS

Moreover, he instructed his followers to be “peacemakers” and to love their enemies.​—Matt. 5:9, 44.

17. What role does peace play in being happy?

¹⁷ Jesus next said: “Happy are the peacemakers.” (Matt. 5:9)

When we have a strained relationship with someone either in the congregation or in the family, we can plead for God’s help to be peacemakers.

13. How does proving ourselves to be peacemakers promote unity?

¹³ When we forgive others, we prove ourselves to be peacemakers.

How does proving ourselves to be peacemakers promote unity?

For instance, he urged his disciples to be mild-tempered, to be peacemakers, to eliminate causes for anger, to settle matters quickly, and to love their enemies.​—Matt. 5:5, 9, 22, 25, 44.

As peacemakers, we will enjoy a good relationship with our fellow believers and will promote the unity of the congregation. (Ps. 133:1-3)

¹⁹ The Greek term rendered “peaceable” at Matthew 5:9 literally means “peacemakers.”

Peacemakers do not do anything that ‘separates those familiar with one another.’ (Prov. 16:28)

It is true that Jesus Christ said: “Blessed are the peacemakers.” (Matthew 5:9, King James Version)

But will religious efforts​—whether Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, or otherwise—​to serve as peacemakers in this world be crowned with success?

He told of a group of faithful men and women who would promote peace on the earth during troublous times by saying: “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.” (Matt. 5:9, Dy)

These peacemakers put their faith, not in the armistices and uneasy truces of men, but in the everlasting peace that God has promised to establish in our time through his kingdom of righteousness.

From the early battle cry, ‘Yahweh is a man of war: Yahweh is his name,’ to Jesus’ beatitude, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God’—what a deepening of the concept of divine nature!

Mr. Fosdick would thus have us believe that man of himself gradually ascended from a concept of Yahweh or Jehovah as a God of war to a God who blesses the peacemakers; and that the Bible, far from being a divine revelation to man, is but the record of man’s efforts to acquire an adequate concept of God. (Ex. 15:3, NW; Matt. 5:9)