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Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
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Actively Pursue Peace
The command to "follow after peace" is not a passive suggestion but an active, strenuous pursuit. Scholars like A.T. Robertson describe it as giving peace "a chase as if in a hunt." This effort is to be extended to "all men," not just fellow Christians, a challenging directive especially for those facing persecution.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Follow peace with all men. Do not give indulgence to those passions which lead to litigations, strifes, and wars. (See Barnes on Romans 14…
Follow after peace (ειρηνην διωκετε). Give peace a chase as if in a hunt.
With all men (μετα παντων). Like…
19th Century
Anglican
Follow peace.—More clearly (as our word “follow” is somewhat ambiguous), follow after peace. There is a manifest allusion…
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Baptist
It yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the fe…
The NT contains a number of exhortations to believers to be at “peace” (GK 1645), either with one another or with people in general (cf.[Reference …
16th Century
Protestant
Follow peace, etc. People are so constituted by nature that they all seem to shun peace, for all pursue their own interests, seek…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Follow peace with all men That are in a natural and domestic relation to one another, being of the same family; and …
A burden of affliction tends to make the Christian's hands hang down and his knees grow feeble, to dishearten and discourage him; but he must striv…
13th Century
Catholic
Having indicated how we should behave toward the enduring evils of chastisement, the Apostle now shows how we should act to avoid the evils of guil…
