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150 Bible Verses for Rest and Peace
“Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”
For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me live in safety.
The LORD is my shepherd; I shall lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted amongst the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
no evil shall happen to you, neither shall any plague come near your dwelling.
For he will put his angels in charge of you, to guard you in all your ways.
They will bear you up in their hands, so that you won’t dash your foot against a stone.
You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honour him.
I will satisfy him with long life, and show him my salvation.”
I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
“Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
My soul rests in God alone. My salvation is from him.
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
He alone is my rock, my salvation, and my fortress. I will never be greatly shaken.
When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.
but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.
The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,
I laid myself down and slept. I awakened, for the LORD sustains me.
I will not be afraid of tens of thousands of people who have set themselves against me on every side.
when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.
For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.
I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my tongue rejoices. My body shall also dwell in safety.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”
Do the things which you learnt, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burnt, and flame will not scorch you.
Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.
Our soul has waited for the LORD. He is our help and our shield.
For our heart rejoices in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,
Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
Blessed is the man whom you discipline, LORD, and teach out of your law,
that you may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.
“Don’t be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.
Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
I will hear what God, the LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says the LORD who has mercy on you.
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
I waited patiently for the LORD. He turned to me, and heard my cry.
I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
Don’t withhold your tender mercies from me, LORD. Let your loving kindness and your truth continually preserve me.
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
Be pleased, LORD, to deliver me. Hurry to help me, LORD.
Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonour who delight in my hurt.
Let them be desolate by reason of their shame that tell me, “Aha! Aha!”
Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”
But I am poor and needy. May the Lord think about me. You are my help and my deliverer. Don’t delay, my God.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.
Tell those who have a fearful heart, “Be strong! Don’t be afraid! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God’s retribution. He will come and save you.
The LORD himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,
May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,
nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God’s love which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Know that the LORD, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Like a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear him.
For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
This is the boldness which we have towards him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.
And if we know that he listens to us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
They shall be given over to the power of the sword. They shall be jackal food.
But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.
So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.
Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
A man’s steps are established by the LORD. He delights in his way.
Though he stumble, he shall not fall, for the LORD holds him up with his hand.
“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
Out of my distress, I called on the LORD. The LORD answered me with freedom.
The LORD is on my side. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the dreaded ones is like a storm against the wall.
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.
This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil,
How precious is your loving kindness, God! The children of men take refuge under the shadow of your wings.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the dawn from on high will visit us,
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
Let all that you do be done in love.
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.
The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in the LORD is kept safe.
For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed towards us.
But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
to him be the glory in the assembly and in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
But now the LORD who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel, says: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine.
For his anger is but for a moment. His favour is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.
You, who have shown us many and bitter troubles, you will let me live. You will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Increase my honour and comfort me again.
Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,
He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
As for God, his way is perfect. The LORD’s word is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you,
For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience.
The LORD opens the eyes of the blind. The LORD raises up those who are bowed down. The LORD loves the righteous.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
that, as it is written, “He who boasts, let him boast in the Lord.”
I always thank my God concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus,
Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
For the LORD says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.
Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let such as love your salvation say continually, “Let the LORD be exalted!”
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
But let all those who take refuge in you rejoice. Let them always shout for joy, because you defend them. Let them also who love your name be joyful in you.
Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of Armies will perform this.
For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.
“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will.
Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;
But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
and the LORD will guide you continually, satisfy your soul in dry places, and make your bones strong. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters don’t fail.
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield. The LORD will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.