Lexicon
εἰρηνεύω
eirēneuō
G1514
G:V Greek

be at peace

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eireneuo denotes maintaining peace in relationships, whether among fellow believers or with all people.

The attested use consistently concerns maintaining peaceful relations: it is directed toward fellow believers in three present active plural commands and toward all people in a present active participial clause.

Senses in use

  1. Maintain peaceful relations with others · dominant

    The present active plural form occurs in direct instructions: in 1 Thessalonians 5:13 the APB renders the clause “Be at peace among yourselves,” in 2 Corinthians 13:11 “be at peace,” and in Mark 9:50 “be at peace with one another.” Romans 12:18 uses the present active nominative plural masculine participle in a qualification about what depends on the hearers, and the APB renders it “being at peace with all people.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across all four verses, the APB presents the clause with “be at peace” or “being at peace,” adding relational phrases such as “among yourselves,” “with one another,” and “with all people.” These phrases show the clauses' setting rather than a separate rendering for each element.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture