149 Bible verses about peace in the midst of the storm

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.

Unto the end. A Psalm for the sons of Korah.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.All nations, clap your hands. Shout joyfully to God with a voice of exultation.For the Lord is exalted and terrible: a great King over all the earth.

The old error has gone away. You will serve peace: peace, for we have hoped in you.

A Canticle Psalm. On the day of the Sabbath.For behold your enemies, O Lord, for behold your enemies will perish, and all those who work iniquity will be dispersed.And my horn will be exalted like that of the single-horned beast, and my old age will be exalted in fruitful mercy.And my eye has looked down upon my enemies, and my ear will hear of the malignant rising up against me.The just one will flourish like the palm tree. He will be multiplied like the cedar of Lebanon.Those planted in the house of the Lord will flourish in the courts of the house of our God.They will still be multiplied in a fruitful old age, and they will endure well,so that they may announce that the Lord our God is righteous and that there is no iniquity in him.It is good to confess to the Lord and to sing psalms to your name, O Most High:

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."Are you he who is to come, or should we expect another?"For my yoke is sweet and my burden is light."

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."

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.

Cast all your cares upon him, for he takes care of you.

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.

The innocent of hands and the clean of heart, who has not received his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbor.

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."So then, we may confidently say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear what man can do to me."

Then may the Lord of peace himself give you an everlasting peace, in every place. May the Lord be with all of 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.

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.

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.

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.

Behold, I am instructing you. Be strengthened, and be steadfast. Do not dread, and do not fear. For the Lord your God is with you in all things, wherever you may go."

A Psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Idumea.Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lower parts of the earth.They will be delivered into the hand of the sword. They will be the portions of foxes.Truly, the king will rejoice in God: all those who swear by him will be praised, because the mouth of those who speak iniquity has been blocked.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.

Therefore, having been justified by faith, let us be at peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

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 will cry out to God Most High, to God who has been kind to me.

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."

Therefore, do not be anxious about tomorrow; for the future day will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its evil."

They have been searching carefully for iniquities. Their exhaustive search has failed. Man will approach with a deep heart,and God will be exalted. The arrows of the little ones have become their wounds,

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.

Then who will separate us from the love of Christ? Tribulation? Or anguish? Or famine? Or nakedness? Or peril? Or persecution? Or the sword?For it is as it has been written: "For your sake, we are being put to death all day long. We are being treated like sheep for the slaughter."But in all these things we overcome, because of him who has loved us.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.

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.

Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.

From those who resist your right hand, preserve me like the pupil of your eye. Protect me under the shadow of your wings,

Fear is not in love. Instead, perfect love casts out fear, for fear pertains to punishment. And whoever fears is not perfected in love.

In all things, we endure tribulation, yet we are not in anguish. We are constrained, yet we are not destitute.We suffer persecution, yet we have not been abandoned. We are thrown down, yet we do not perish.

So, what should we say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Are not two sparrows sold for one small coin? And yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father.James of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, and James of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus,For even the hairs of your head have all been numbered.Therefore, do not be afraid. You are worth more than many sparrows.

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.

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.

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."

gathering together the waters of the sea, as if in a container, placing the depths in storage.Let all the earth fear the Lord, and may all the inhabitants of the world quake before him.

And I give them eternal life, and they shall not perish, for eternity. And no one shall seize them from my hand.What my Father gave to me is greater than all, and no one is able to seize from the hand of my Father.

For I am the Lord your God. I take you by your hand, and I say to you: Do not be afraid. I have helped you.

in hope, rejoicing; in tribulation, enduring; in prayer, ever-willing;

For my iniquities have walked over my head, and they have been like a heavy burden weighing upon me.

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!

And Jesus said to them, "Why are you afraid, O little in faith?" Then rising up, he commanded the winds, and the sea. And a great tranquility occurred.

Then I will not be confounded, when I will look into all your commandments.

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."

Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to take pity on the child of her womb? But even if she would forget, still I shall never forget you.Behold, I have engraved you on my hands. Your walls are always before my eyes.

For the prudence of the flesh is death. But the prudence of the spirit is life and peace.

Why are you sad, my soul? And why do you disquiet me? Hope in God, for I will still give praise to him: the salvation of my countenance and my God.

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.

Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope, without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.

The name of the Lord is very strong tower. The just one rushes to it, and he shall be exalted.

A Canticle in steps. When the Lord turned back the captivity of Zion, we became like those who are consoled.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."

And the work of justice will be peace. And the service of justice will be quiet and secure, forever.

Will my soul not be subject to God? For from him is my salvation.

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.

Temptation should not take hold of you, except what is human. For God is faithful, and he will not permit you to be tempted beyond your ability. Instead, he will effect his Providence, even during temptation, so that you may be able to bear it.

And immediately, Jesus spoke to them, saying: "Have faith. It is I. Do not be afraid."

I will confess to you in a great Church. I will praise you among a weighty people.

This we have as an anchor of the soul, safe and sound, which advances even to the interior of the veil,

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.

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?

For we walk by means of faith, and not by sight.

Unto the end. May you not destroy. Of David, with the inscription of a title.Before your thorns could know the brier, he consumes them alive, as if in rage.The just one will rejoice when he sees vindication. He will wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.And man will say, "If the just one is fruitful, then, truly, there is a God judging them on earth."If, truly and certainly, you speak justice, then judge what is right, you sons of men.

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.

I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me, and I in him, bears much fruit. For without me, you are able to do nothing.

O Lord, take pity on us. For we have waited for you. Be our arm in the morning and our salvation in the time of tribulation.

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?

So may the God of patience and solace grant you to be of one mind toward one another, in accord with Jesus Christ,

The heavens describe the glory of God, and the firmament announces the work of his hands.

Since they have not understood the works of the Lord and the works of his hands, you will destroy them, and you will not build them up.

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.

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."

And so, let us pursue the things that are of peace, and let us keep to the things that are for the edification of one another.

Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not diminish. For the Lord will be an everlasting light for you, and the days of your mourning will be completed.

Unto the end. A Psalm of David himself.For even the man of my peace, in whom I hoped, who ate my bread, has greatly supplanted me.But you, O Lord, have mercy on me, and raise me up again. And I will requite them.By this, I knew that you preferred me: because my adversary will not rejoice over me.But you have sustained me, because of my innocence, and you have confirmed me in your sight in eternity.Blessed is the Lord God of Israel, for all generations and even forever. Amen. Amen.Blessed is he who shows understanding toward the needy and the poor. The Lord will deliver him in the evil day.

Jesus Christ, yesterday and today; Jesus Christ forever.

There, the sparrows will make their nests. The leader of them is the house of the heron.The heights of the hills are for the deer; the rock is a refuge for the hedgehog.

Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.

When you slumber, you shall not fear. When you rest, your sleep also will be sweet.

I have been delighted in the way of your testimonies, as if in all riches.Your eloquence has been greatly enflamed, and your servant has loved it.I am young and treated with contempt. But I have not forgotten your justifications.Your justice is justice for all eternity, and your law is truth.Tribulation and anguish have found me. Your commandments are my meditation.Your testimonies are fairness unto eternity. Give me understanding, and I will live.COPH. I cried out with my whole heart. Heed me, O Lord. I will ask for your justifications.I cried out to you. Save me, so that I may keep your commandments.I arrived first in maturity, and so I cried out. For in your words, I have hoped beyond hope.My eyes preceded the dawn for you, so that I might meditate on your eloquence.Hear my voice according to your mercy, O Lord. And revive me according to your judgment.I will be trained in your commandments, and I will consider your ways.Those who persecute me have drawn near to iniquity, but they been brought far from your law.You are near, O Lord, and all your ways are truth.I have known from the beginning about your testimonies. For you founded them in eternity.RES. See my humiliation and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your law.Judge my judgment and redeem me. Revive me because of your eloquence.Salvation is far from sinners, because they have not inquired about your justifications.Many are your mercies, O Lord. Enliven me according to your judgment.Many are those who persecute me and who trouble me. I have not turned away from your testimonies.I saw the prevaricators, and I pine away. For they have not kept your word.O Lord, see how I have loved your commandments. Revive me in your mercy.I will meditate on your justifications. I will not forget your words.

From ages past, they have not heard it, and they have not perceived it with the ears. Apart from you, O God, the eye has not seen what you have prepared for those who await you.

May your kingdom come. May your will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth.

For no word will be impossible with God."

In him, you also, after you heard and believed the Word of truth, which is the Gospel of your salvation, were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the Promise.He is the pledge of our inheritance, unto the acquisition of redemption, to the praise of his glory.

He himself bore our sins in his body upon the tree, so that we, having died to sin, would live for justice. By his wounds, you have been healed.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of virtue, and of love, and of self-restraint.

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.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

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!"

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.

And yet, even when you suffer something for the sake of justice, you are blessed. So then, do not be afraid with their fear, and do not be disturbed.

By the fruit of their grain, wine, and oil, they have been multiplied.

But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

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.

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,

The night has passed, and the day draws near. Therefore, let us cast aside the works of darkness, and be clothed with the armor of light.

Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.

For he is our peace. He made the two into one, by dissolving the intermediate wall of separation, of opposition, by his flesh,

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.

And similarly, the Spirit also helps our weakness. For we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself asks on our behalf with ineffable sighing.

Furthermore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses over us, let us set aside every burden and sin which may surround us, and advance, through patience, to the struggle offered to us.And indeed, for a few days and according to their own wishes, they instructed us. But he does so to our benefit, so that we may receive his sanctification.Now every discipline, in the present time, does not seem a gladness, of course, but a grief. But afterwards, it will repay a most peaceful fruit of justice to those who become trained in it.Because of this, lift up your lazy hands and your lax knees,and straighten the path of your feet, so that no one, being lame, may wander astray, but instead may be healed.Pursue peace with everyone. Pursue sanctity, without which no one shall see God.Be contemplative, lest anyone lack the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness spring up and impede you, and by it, many might be defiled,lest any fornicator or worldly person be like Esau, who, for the sake of one meal, sold his birthright.For you know that afterwards, when he desired to inherit the benediction, he was rejected. For he found no place for repentance, even though he had sought it with tears.But you have not drawn near to a tangible mountain, or a burning fire, or a whirlwind, or a mist, or a storm,or the sound of a trumpet, or a voice of words. Those who had experienced these things excused themselves, lest the Word be spoken to them.Let us gaze upon Jesus, as the Author and the completion of our faith, who, having joy laid out before him, endured the cross, disregarding the shame, and who now sits at the right hand of the throne of God.

A rejoicing heart gladdens the face. But by the grief of the soul, the spirit is cast down.

I am not praying that you would take them out of the world, but that you would preserve them from evil.

And may my God fulfill all your desires, according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

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."

But God is faithful. He will strengthen you, and he will guard you from evil.

I wish that my ways may be directed so as to keep your justifications.This has consoled me in my humiliation, for your word has revived me.The arrogant act altogether iniquitously, but I have not turned aside from your law.I called to mind your judgments of antiquity, O Lord, and I was consoled.Faintness has taken hold of me, because of the sinners, those who abandon your law.Your justifications were the subject of my worthy singing, in the place of my pilgrimage.During the night, I remembered your name, O Lord, and I kept your law.This has happened to me because I sought your justifications.HETH. O Lord, my portion, I have said that I would keep your law.I have beseeched your face with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.I have considered my ways, and I have turned my feet toward your testimonies.Then I will not be confounded, when I will look into all your commandments.

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.

If I ascend into heaven, you are there. If I descend into Hell, you are near.

But I am not praying for them only, but also for those who through their word shall believe in me.So may they all be one. Just as you, Father, are in me, and I am in you, so also may they be one in us: so that the world may believe that you have sent me.

And your ears will listen to the word of one admonishing you behind your back: "This is the way! Walk in it! And do not turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left."

For your mercy has been magnified, even to the heavens, and your truth, even to the clouds.

Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.

For whatever was written, was written to teach us, so that, through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

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

And I ask him to grant to you to be strengthened in virtue by his Spirit, in accord with the wealth of his glory, in the inner man,so that Christ may live in your hearts through a faith rooted in, and founded on, charity.

And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

I have not sat with the council of emptiness, and I will not enter with those who carry out injustice.I have hated the assembly of the malicious; and I will not sit with the impious.

In the manner of one whom a mother caresses, so will I console you. And you will be consoled in Jerusalem.

Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the powers of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.

"Do not let your heart be troubled. You believe in God. Believe in me also.

Be attentive to my help, O Lord, the God of my salvation.

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 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.

So will I bless you in my life, and I will lift up my hands in your name.Let my soul be filled, as if with marrow and fatness; and my mouth will give praise with exultant lips.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have already attained this. Instead, I do one thing: forgetting those things that are behind, and extending myself toward those things that are ahead,I pursue the destination, the prize of the heavenly calling of God in Christ Jesus.

It is a faithful saying, and worthy of acceptance by everyone, that Christ Jesus came into this world to bring salvation to sinners, among whom I am first.But it was for this reason that I obtained mercy, so that in me as first, Christ Jesus would display all patience, for the instruction of those who would believe in him unto eternal life.

Strengthen the lax hands, and confirm the weak knees!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 so, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and unmovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not useless in the Lord.

This way of theirs is a scandal to them. And afterwards, they will delight in their mouth.

Do not forget the voices of your adversaries. The arrogance of those who hate you rises up continually.

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus, will himself perfect, confirm, and establish us, after a brief time of suffering.