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150 Bible Verses for Rest and Peace
Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye will find rest for your souls.For my yoke is befitting, and my burden is light.
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you, not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be cowardly.
Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thankfulness make your requests known to God.And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.He makes me to 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.
Thou will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee], because he trusts in thee.
Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.I will say of LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
(Cast thy burden upon LORD, and he will sustain thee. He will never allow the righteous man to be moved.)
There remains therefore a Sabbath for the people of God.For a man who has entered into his rest, he has also rested from his works, as God did from his own.
Because of this I say to you, be not anxious about your life, what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, nor yet for your body, what ye may wear. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the clothing?Look to the birds of the sky, because they sow not, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns, and your heavenly Father feeds them. Are ye not more valuable then they?And which man of you by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span?
These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.
My soul waits in silence for God only. From him [is] my salvation.He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower. I shall not be greatly moved.
For the mentality of the flesh is death, but the mentality of the Spirit is life and peace.
When thou lay down, thou shall not be afraid. Yea, thou shall lay down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
But those who wait for LORD shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall walk, and not faint.
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace through everything in every way. The Lord is with all of you.
And the work of righteousness shall 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, for ye to abound in hope in the power of Holy Spirit.
Rest in LORD, and wait patiently for him. Fret not thyself because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked devices to pass.
LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? LORD is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen thee. Yea, I will help thee. Yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
For thus said lord LORD, the Holy One of Israel, Ye shall be saved in returning and rest. Your strength shall be in quietness and in confidence. And ye would not,
I laid down and slept. I awoke, for LORD sustains me.I will not be afraid of ten thousands of the people who have set themselves against me round about.
when I remember thee upon my bed, [and] meditate on thee in the night-watches.For thou have been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice.
I beheld (LXX/NT) LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices. My flesh also shall dwell in hope (LXX/NT).
The Way of life is to be without love of money, being content with the things that are present, for he has said, I will, no, not leave thee, and also, I will, no, not forsake thee.
Therefore having been made righteous from faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid, for LORD, [even] LORD, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation.
But he who hearkens to me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.
And what ye learned and received and heard and saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.
I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where shall my help come?My help [is] from LORD, who made heaven and earth.
When thou pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. When thou walk through the fire, thou shall not be burned, nor shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Our soul has waited for LORD. He is our help and our shield.For our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name.
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.And I give them eternal life, and they will, no, not perish into the age, and not any will snatch them out of my hand.
And let the peace of God umpire in your hearts, for which also ye were called in one body, and become 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.
As the Father has loved me, I also have loved you. Dwell ye in my love.If ye keep my commandments, ye will dwell in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments, and dwell in his love.
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are the called according to purpose.
LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
And my people shall abide in a peaceable habitation, and in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting-places.
Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but joy is to the counselors of peace.
Blessed is the man whom thou chasten, O LORD, and teach out of thy law,that thou may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for a wicked man.
Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord.
I will hear what God, LORD, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, and to his sanctified. But let them not turn again to folly.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, nor shall my covenant of peace be removed, says LORD who has mercy on thee.
God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God will help her, and that right early.
Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.
Fear is not in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear holds punishment, and he who is afraid has not been fully perfected in love.
Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.
Finally brothers, farewell. Be thoroughly prepared, be encouraged, think the same way, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Let us therefore come near with boldness to the throne of grace, so that we may take mercy, and may find grace for timely help.
I waited patiently for LORD, and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Say to those who are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not. Behold, your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] the recompense of God. He will come and save you.
And LORD, he it is who goes before thee. He will be with thee. He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Fear not, neither be dismayed.
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
He will cover thee with his pinions, and under his wings shall thou take refuge. His truth is a shield and a buckler.Thou shall not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the arrow that flies by day,
And may the God of peace himself sanctify you thoroughly. And may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.Faithful is he who calls you, who also will do it.
For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor heavenly agents, nor principal positions, nor powers, nor things that have come, nor things that are coming,nor height, nor depth, nor any other creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I pray not that thou should take them out of the world, but that thou should keep them from the evil.
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the [heavenly] agent of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. And he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows me would, no, not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so LORD is round about his people from this time forth and for evermore.
For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the dividing wall of partition,
Have thou not known? Have thou not heard? The everlasting God, LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, nor is weary. There is no searching of his understanding.He gives power to the faint. And to him who has no might he increases strength.
Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.
Know ye that 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 as a father pities his sons, So LORD pities those who fear him.For he knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust.
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.And if we know that he hears us, whatever we may ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.
O God, thou are my God. I will earnestly seek thee. My soul thirsts for thee, my flesh longs for thee, in a dry and weary land, where is no water.So I have looked upon thee in the sanctuary to see thy power and thy glory.Because thy loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.So I will bless thee while I live. I will lift up my hands in thy name.
teaching them to observe all things, as many as I commanded you. And lo, I am with you all the days, until the end of the age. Truly.
A man's goings are established by LORD, and he delights in his way.Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for LORD upholds him with his hand.
I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are thou, that thou are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,
Out of my distress I called upon LORD. LORD answered me upon a large place.LORD is on my side, I will not fear. What can man do to me?
Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all encouragement,who encourages us in all our affliction, in order for us to be able to encourage those in every affliction, through the encouragement of which we ourselves are encouraged by God.
For thou have been a stronghold to a poor man, a stronghold to a needy man in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the oppressors is as a storm against the wall.
For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and of love, and of soberness.
For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in Holy Spirit.
My flesh and my heart fails, [but] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed thee.
Which we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and that enters into the interior of the veil,
How precious is thy loving kindness, O God, and the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house, and thou will make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
And how will they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who proclaim good news of peace, of those who proclaim good news of good things.
because of the bowels of mercy of our God, by which the dayspring from on high came to help us,to give light to those who dwell in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into a way of peace.
Watch ye, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.Let all things of you be done in love.
Finally my brothers, be strong in Lord and in the power of his might.Put on the full armor of God to enable you to stand against the wiles of the devil.
LORD will also be a high tower for the oppressed, a high tower in times of trouble.And those who know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek thee.
For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace. The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands.
For I reckon that the sufferings of the present time are not comparable to the glory that is going to be revealed for us.
But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Now to him who is able to do above extraordinary--above all things that we ask or think--according to the power that works in us,to him is the glory in the church in Christ Jesus for all generations of the age of the ages. Truly.
But now thus says LORD who created thee, O Jacob, and he who formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name, Thou are mine.
For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy [is] in the morning.
Thou, who have shown us many and great troubles, will revive us again, and will bring us up again from the depths of the earth.Increase thou my greatness, and turn again and comfort me.
Now may the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to think the same way among each other, in accord with Christ Jesus,
He will not allow thy foot to be moved. He who keeps thee will not slumber.Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.
As for God, his way is perfect. The word of LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.
and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,
For we were saved to hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For what is seen, why also hope for that?But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait through patience.
LORD opens [the eyes of] the blind. LORD raises up those who are bowed down. LORD loves the righteous.
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and Lord Jesus Christ.I thank my God always about you, for the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
And having looked, Jesus said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
For thus says LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream. And ye shall nurse [thereof]. Ye shall be borne upon the side, and shall be dandled upon the knees.
Let all those who seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee. Let such as love thy salvation say continually, LORD be magnified.
But piety with contentment is great gain,for we brought nothing into the world. It is clear that neither can we carry anything out,
But let all those who take refuge in thee rejoice. Let them ever shout for joy, because thou defend them. Let those also who love thy name be joyful in thee.
Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of L
For as many things as were written previously were written for our learning, so that through perseverance and through the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall on the ground independent of your Father.But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.Fear not therefore, ye are of worth more than many sparrows.
And God is able to abound all grace for you, so that always in everything having all sufficiency, ye may abound for every good work,
And LORD will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in dry places, and make strong thy bones. And thou shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.
For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.