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150 Bible Verses for Rest and Peace
Come to me, all you who labor and have been burdened, and I will refresh you.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you shall find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light."
Peace I leave for you; my Peace I give to you. Not in the way that the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, and let it not fear.
Be anxious about nothing. But in all things, with prayer and supplication, with acts of thanksgiving, let your petitions be made known to God.
And so shall the peace of God, which exceeds all understanding, guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
For the First Sabbath. A Psalm of David. The earth and all its fullness belong to the Lord: the whole world and all that dwells in it.
For he has founded it upon the seas, and he has prepared it upon the rivers.
Who will ascend to the mountain of the Lord? And who will stand in his holy place?
The leaders of the peoples have been gathered together by the God of Abraham. For the strong gods of the earth have been exceedingly exalted.
A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath.
It is good to confess to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High:
For whoever has entered into his rest, the same has also rested from his works, just as God did from his.
And so, there remains a Sabbath of rest for the people of God.
And so I say to you, do not be anxious about your life, as to what you will eat, nor about your body, as to what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Consider the birds of the air, how they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of much greater value than they are?
And which of you, by thinking, is able to add one cubit to his stature?
These things I have spoken to you, so that you may have peace in me. In the world, you will have difficulties. But have confidence: I have overcome the world."
A Psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Idumea.
O God, my God: to you, I keep vigil until first light. For you, my soul has thirsted, to you my body, in so many ways.
Let them be confounded and in awe, who pursue my soul. Let them be turned back and be confounded, who think up evil against me.
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will take up wings like eagles. They will run and not struggle. They will walk and not tire.
Then may the Lord of peace himself give you an everlasting peace, in every place. May the Lord be with all of you.
And the work of justice will be peace. And the service of justice will be quiet and secure, forever.
So may the God of hope fill you with every joy and with peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope and in the virtue of the Holy Spirit.
I have become miserable, and I have been bent down, even to the end. I have walked with contrition all day long.
A Psalm of David himself. To you, Lord, I will cry out. My God, do not be silent toward me. For if you remain silent toward me, I will become like those who descend into the pit.
Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.
For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: If you return and are quiet, you shall be saved. Your strength will be found in silence and in hope. But you are not willing!
I have cried out to the Lord with my voice, and he has heard me from his holy mountain.
I have slept, and I have been stupefied. But I awakened because the Lord has taken me up.
They will suddenly shoot arrows at him, and they will not be afraid. They are resolute in their wicked talk. They have discussed hidden snares. They have said, "Who will see them?"
They have been searching carefully for iniquities. Their exhaustive search has failed. Man will approach with a deep heart,
From those who resist your right hand, preserve me like the pupil of your eye. Protect me under the shadow of your wings,
from the face of the impious who have afflicted me. My enemies have surrounded my soul.
Let your behavior be without avarice; be content with what you are offered. For he himself has said, "I will not abandon you, and I will not neglect you."
Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Behold, God is my savior, I will act faithfully, and I will not be afraid. For the Lord is my strength and my praise, and he has become my salvation."
But whoever will listen to me shall rest without terror, and shall have full enjoyment of abundance, without fear of evils."
All the things that you have learned and accepted and heard and seen in me, do these. And so shall the God of peace be with you.
A Canticle in steps. I rejoiced in the things that were said to me: "We shall go into the house of the Lord."
Our feet were standing in your courts, O Jerusalem.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and the rivers will not cover you. When you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flames will not scorch you.
A Canticle in steps. When the Lord turned back the captivity of Zion, we became like those who are consoled.
Many are the afflictions of the just, but from them all the Lord will free them.
The Lord preserves all of their bones, not one of them shall be broken.
My sheep hear my voice. And I know them, and they follow me.
And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand.
And let the peace of Christ lift up your hearts. For in this peace, you have been called, as one body. And be thankful.
If you keep my precepts, you shall abide in my love, just as I also have kept my Father's precepts and I abide in his love.
As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Abide in my love.
For unto us a child is born, and unto us a son is given. And leadership is placed upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called: wonderful Counselor, mighty God, father of the future age, Prince of Peace.
And we know that, for those who love God, all things work together unto good, for those who, in accordance with his purpose, are called to be saints.
Like a neighbor, and like our brother, so did I please; like one mourning and contrite, so was I humbled.
And my people will be seated in the beauty of peacefulness, and in the tabernacles of faithfulness, and in the opulence of restfulness.
He has stationed peace at your borders, and he has satisfied you with the fat of the grain.
Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evils. But gladness follows those who take up counsels of peace.
And God is not of dissension, but of peace, just as I also teach in all the churches of the saints.
There is no one like you among the gods, O Lord, and there is no one like you in your works.
For the mountains will be moved, and the hills will tremble. But my mercy will not depart from you, and the covenant of my peace will not be shaken, said the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Have confidence in the Lord with all your heart, and do not depend upon your own prudence.
In all your ways, consider him, and he himself will direct your steps.
For my iniquities have walked over my head, and they have been like a heavy burden weighing upon me.
Fear is not in love. Instead, perfect love casts out fear, for fear pertains to punishment. And whoever fears is not perfected in love.
As to the rest, brothers, rejoice, be perfect, be encouraged, have the same mind, have peace. And so the God of peace and love will be with you.
Therefore, let us go forth with confidence toward the throne of grace, so that we may obtain mercy, and find grace, in a helpful time.
Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.
Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the evil day.
Say to the fainthearted: "Take courage and fear not! Behold, your God will bring the vindication of retribution. God himself will arrive to save you."
And the Lord, who is your commander, will himself be with you. He will neither renounce nor abandon you. Do not be afraid, and do not dread."
In the manner of one whom a mother caresses, so will I console you. And you will be consoled in Jerusalem.
upon the ten strings, upon the psaltery, with a canticle, upon stringed instruments.
For you, O Lord, have delighted me with your doings, and I will exult in the works of your hands.
And may the God of peace himself sanctify you through all things, so that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved without blame unto the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He who has called you is faithful. He shall act even now.
For I am certain that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor Principalities, nor Powers, nor the present things, nor the future things, nor strength,
nor the heights, nor the depths, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Let the snare, of which he is ignorant, come upon him, and let the deception, which he has hidden, take hold of him: and may he fall into that very snare.
I am not praying that you would take them out of the world, but that you would preserve them from evil.
Throughout all their tribulation, he was not troubled, for the Angel of his presence saved them. With his love, and by his leniency, he has redeemed them, and he has carried them and lifted them up, throughout all the days of the ages.
And you have not received, again, a spirit of servitude in fear, but you have received the Spirit of the adoption of sons, in whom we cry out: "Abba, Father!"
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying: "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me does not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life."
Then our mouth was filled with gladness and our tongue with exultation. Then they will say among the nations: "The Lord has done great things for them."
For he is our peace. He made the two into one, by dissolving the intermediate wall of separation, of opposition, by his flesh,
This way of theirs is a scandal to them. And afterwards, they will delight in their mouth.
Do you not know, or have you not heard? The Lord is the eternal God, who has created the limits of the earth. He does not diminish, and he does not struggle. Neither is his wisdom searchable.
It is he who gives strength to the weary, and it is he who increases fortitude and strength in those who are failing.
I am confident of this very thing: that he who has begun this good work in you will perfect it, unto the day of Christ Jesus.
I will not display any unjust thing before my eyes. I have hated those carrying out betrayals.
You irrigate the mountains from your heights. The earth will be satiated from the fruit of your works,
producing grass for cattle and herbs for the service of men. So may you draw bread from the earth,
And this is the confidence which we have toward God: that no matter what we shall request, in accord with his will, he hears us.
And we know that he hears us, no matter what we request; so we know that we can obtain the things that we request of him.
Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
Hear, O God, my prayer of supplication. Rescue my soul from the fear of the enemy.
You have protected me from the assembly of the malignant, from a multitude of workers of iniquity.
For they have sharpened their tongues like a sword; they have formed their bow into a bitter thing,
teaching them to observe all that I have ever commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even to the consummation of the age."
It is I, I myself, who will console you. Who are you that you would be afraid of a mortal man, and of a son of man, who will wither like the grass?
I wish that my ways may be directed so as to keep your justifications.
Then I will not be confounded, when I will look into all your commandments.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all consolation.
He consoles us in all our tribulation, so that we too may be able to console those who are in any kind of distress, through the exhortation by which we also are being exhorted by God.
For you have been the strength of the poor, the strength of the indigent in his tribulation, a refuge from the whirlwind, a shadow from the heat. For the spirit of the mighty is like a whirlwind striking against a wall.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.
For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but rather justice and peace and joy, in the Holy Spirit.
I have wiped away your iniquities like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to me, because I have redeemed you.
This we have as an anchor of the soul, safe and sound, which advances even to the interior of the veil,
Be subject to the Lord and pray to him. Do not choose to compete with him who prospers in his way, with the man who does injustice.
Cease from wrath and leave behind rage. Do not choose to imitate the malicious.
And truly, in what way will they preach, unless they have been sent, just as it has been written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who evangelize peace, of those who evangelize what is good!"
through the heart of the mercy of our God, by which, descending from on high, he has visited us,
to illuminate those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, and to direct our feet in the way of peace."
Be vigilant. Stand with faith. Act manfully and be strengthened.
Let all that is yours be immersed in charity.
Concerning the rest, brothers, be strengthened in the Lord, by the power of his virtue.
Be clothed in the armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the treachery of the devil.
And he will judge the whole world in equity. He will judge the people in justice.
And the Lord has become a refuge for the poor, a helper in opportunity, in tribulation.
For you will go forth rejoicing, and you will be led forward in peace. The mountains and the hills will sing praise before you, and all the trees of the countryside will clap their hands.
For I consider that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with that future glory which shall be revealed in us.
My heart has been disturbed. My strength has abandoned me, and the light of my eyes has abandoned me, and it is not with me.
Now to him who is able to do all things, more abundantly than we could ever ask or understand, by means of the virtue which is at work in us:
to him be glory, in the Church and in Christ Jesus, throughout every generation, forever and ever. Amen.
And now thus says the Lord who created you, O Jacob, and who formed you, O Israel: Do not be afraid. For I have redeemed you, and I have called you by your name. You are mine.
You will lead me out of this snare, which they have hidden for me. For you are my protector.
So may the God of patience and solace grant you to be of one mind toward one another, in accord with Jesus Christ,
Jerusalem has been built as a city, whose participation is unto itself.
For to that place, the tribes ascended, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to confess to the name of the Lord.
But the fruit of the Spirit is charity, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, forbearance,
meekness, faith, modesty, abstinence, chastity. There is no law against such things.
to choose work that allows you to be tranquil, and to carry out your business and to do your work with your own hands, just as we have instructed you,
For we have been saved by hope. But a hope which is seen is not hope. For when a man sees something, why would he hope?
But since we hope for what we do not see, we wait with patience.
He covers heaven with clouds, and he prepares rain for the earth. He produces grass on the mountains and herbs for the service of men.
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
I give thanks to my God continuously for you because of the grace of God that has been given to you in Christ Jesus.
But Jesus, gazing at them, said to them: "With men, this is impossible. But with God, all things are possible."
For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will turn a river of peace toward her, with an inundating torrent: the glory of the Gentiles, from which you will nurse. You will be carried at the breasts, and they will caress you upon the knees.
But piety with sufficiency is great gain.
For we brought nothing into this world, and there is no doubt that we can take nothing away.
Their throat is an open sepulcher. They have acted deceitfully with their tongues. Judge them, O God. Let them fall by their own intentions: according to the multitude of their impiety, expel them. For they have provoked you, O Lord.
His reign will be increased, and there will be no end to his peace. He will sit upon the throne of David and over his kingdom, to confirm and strengthen it, in judgment and justice, from now even unto eternity. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall accomplish this.
For whatever was written, was written to teach us, so that, through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.
For even the hairs of your head have all been numbered.
Therefore, do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.
And God is able to make every grace abound in you, so that, always having what you need in all things, you may abound unto every good work,
And the Lord will give you rest continually, and he will fill your soul with splendor, and he will free your bones, and you will be like a watered garden and like a fountain of water whose waters will not fail.