137 Bible verses about Inner Peace

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.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

The LORD will give strength to his people. The LORD will bless his people with peace.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

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.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

“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.”

Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.

This is my comfort in my affliction, for your word has revived me.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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.

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.

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

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.

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.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

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.”

Cast your burden on the LORD and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honourable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

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.

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.

LORD, you will ordain peace for us, for you have also done all our work for us.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.

My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word.

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.

But the humble shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.

In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you alone, LORD, make me live in safety.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Do the things which you learnt, received, heard, and saw in me, and the God of peace will be with you.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

But I trust in you, LORD. I said, “You are my God.” My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

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.

When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Your hands have made me and formed me. Give me understanding, that I may learn your commandments.

Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word. My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.

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.

But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble. Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. The LORD helps them and rescues them. He rescues them from the wicked and saves them, because they have taken refuge in him.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

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.

I hate double-minded men, but I love your law.

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, LORD, my rock, and my redeemer.

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.

From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

In the multitude of my thoughts within me, your comforts delight my soul.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

The LORD is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever; for in the LORD, the LORD, is an everlasting Rock.

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.

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?

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. He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

Let’s not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season if we don’t give up.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Always rejoice. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but the LORD’s counsel will prevail.

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.

My people will live in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places,

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

Though I walk in the middle of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

But the LORD’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

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.

Therefore let’s also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let’s run with perseverance the race that is set before us, For they indeed for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord, looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and many be defiled by it, lest there be any sexually immoral person or profane person, like Esau, who sold his birthright for one meal. For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears. For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched and that burnt with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which those who heard it begged that not one more word should be spoken to them, looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but an aching heart breaks the spirit.

The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don’t swerve from your law.

For sin will not have dominion over you, for you are not under law, but under grace.

LORD my God, I cried to you, and you have healed me.

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.” Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honour him.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from where we also wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

To you, LORD, I lift up my soul. All the paths of the LORD are loving kindness and truth to such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. For your name’s sake, LORD, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. What man is he who fears the LORD? He shall instruct him in the way that he shall choose. His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land. The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant. My eyes are ever on the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged. Oh bring me out of my distresses. Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins. Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred. My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose. For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn amongst many brothers.

All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

Cause me to hear your loving kindness in the morning, for I trust in you. Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to you.

All your children will be taught by the LORD, and your children’s peace will be great.

The LORD’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. The LORD’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple. The LORD’s precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. The LORD’s commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.

This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

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?

For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Don’t be afraid. I will help you.’

Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learnt in whatever state I am, to be content in it. I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In any and all circumstances I have learnt the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need.

In God, I will praise his word. In the LORD, I will praise his word.

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.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather you from the west.

Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through perseverance and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

Have this in your mind, which was also in Christ Jesus,

But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

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.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself up for me.

Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

LORD, you have searched me, and you know me. even there your hand will lead me, and your right hand will hold me. If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me. The light around me will be night,” even the darkness doesn’t hide from you, but the night shines as the day. The darkness is like light to you. For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. My soul knows that very well. My frame wasn’t hidden from you, when I was made in secret, woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my body. In your book they were all written, the days that were ordained for me, when as yet there were none of them. How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is their sum! If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I wake up, I am still with you. If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men! You know my sitting down and my rising up. You perceive my thoughts from afar. For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain. LORD, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you? I hate them with perfect hatred. They have become my enemies. Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts. See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the everlasting way. You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

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.

God is within her. She shall not be moved. God will help her at dawn.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

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,

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HE

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,

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!”

Your loving kindness, LORD, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the skies.

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. “You are my witnesses,” says the LORD, “With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me. I myself am the LORD. Besides me, there is no saviour. I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown, and there was no strange god amongst you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says the LORD, “and I am God. Yes, since the day was, I am he. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?” The LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel says: “For your sake, I have sent to Babylon, and I will bring all of them down as fugitives, even the Chaldeans, in the ships of their rejoicing. I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.” The LORD, who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters, who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says: “Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 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.

The LORD upholds all who fall, and raises up all those who are bowed down.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

For you have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.