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150 Bible Verses for Rest and Peace
Come to Me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.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 do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and petition, along with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, shall guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
I will both lie down in peace and sleep; for You alone, O Lord, have caused me to dwell securely.
A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.In a place of green grass, there He has made me dwell; He has nourished me by the water of rest.He has restored my soul; He has guided me into the paths of righteousness, for His name's sake.
Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven.He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge; my God; I will trust in Him.
Cast your cares upon the Lord, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.
Then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God.For he who has entered into His rest also rested himself from his works, as God did from His own.
"Because of this I say to you, do not worry about your life--what you shall eat, or what you shall drink--nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap, nor do they gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth more than they?Which of you by worrying is able to add one cubit to his stature?
These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but have courage, I have overcome the world."
For the end, A Psalm of David to Jeduthun. Shall not my soul be subjected to God? For from Him is my salvation.For He is my God, and my savior; my helper, I shall not be greatly moved.
I sought the Lord diligently, and He hearkened to me, and delivered me from all my sojournings.
but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
Now may the Lord of peace Himself give you peace always in every way. The Lord be with you all.
And the works of righteousness shall be peace; and righteousness shall ensure rest, and the righteous shall be confident forever.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Submit yourself to the Lord, and make supplication to Him; do not fret because of him that prospers in his way, at the man that does unlawful deeds.
A Psalm of David, before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my Savior; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Fear not; for I am with you; wander not; for I am your God, who has strengthened you; and I have helped you, and have established you with My righteous right hand.
Your mercy, O Lord, has helped me. O Lord, according to the multitude of my griefs within my heart, Your consolation has soothed my soul.
Thus says the Lord, the Holy Lord of Israel; When you shall turn and mourn, then you shall be saved; and you shall know where you were, when you trusted in vanities; then your strength became vain, yet you would not hearken;
I laid down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord will help me.I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, who beset me round about.
For I have remembered You on my bed; in the early seasons I have meditated on You.For You have been my helper, and in the shelter of Your wings will I rejoice.
I foresaw the Lord always before my face; for He is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.Therefore my heart rejoiced and my tongue exalted; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:
Let your way of life be without loving money, being satisfied with what you have. For He Himself has said, "By no means shall I desert you, nor in any way shall I forsake you;"
For the end, for the sons of Korah; A Psalm concerning secret things. God is our refuge and strength, a help in the afflictions that have come heavily upon us.
Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Behold, my God is my Savior; I will trust in Him, and not be afraid; for the Lord is my glory and my praise, and has become my salvation.
But he that listens to me shall dwell in confidence, and shall rest securely from all evil.
The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, practice these things; and the God of peace shall be with you.
A Song of Degrees. I lifted up my eyes to the mountains - from where my help shall come.My help shall come from the Lord, who made the heaven and the earth.
And if you pass through water, I am with you; and the rivers shall not overflow you; and if you go through the fire, you shall not be burned; the flame shall not burn you.
A Song of Degrees. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion: he that dwells in Jerusalem shall never be moved.
Our soul waits on the Lord; for He is our helper and defender.For our heart shall rejoice in Him, and we have hoped in His holy name.
My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.And I give to them eternal life, and they shall 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.
I shall have sinned if I have not been humble, but have exalted my soul; according to the relation of a weaned child to his mother, so will You recompense my soul.
"Just as the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and I abide in His love.
For a Child is born to us, and a Son is given to us, whose government is upon His shoulder; and His name is called the Messenger of great counsel; for I will bring peace upon the princes, and health to Him.
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.
The Lord is my firm support, and my refuge, and my deliverer; my God is my helper, I will hope in Him; He is my defender, and the horn of my salvation, and my helper.
And His people shall inhabit a city of peace, and dwell in it in confidence, and they shall rest with wealth.
There is deceit in the heart of him that imagines evil, but they that love peace shall rejoice.
Blessed is the man whom You shall chasten, O Lord, and shall teach him out of Your law;to give him rest from evil days, until the pit is dug for the wicked.
For God is not the author of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
Do not fear, little flock, because your Father is well pleased to give to you the kingdom.
I will hear what the Lord God will say concerning me; for He shall speak peace to His people, and to His saints, and to those that turn their heart toward Him.
Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and let your heart be strengthened; yea, wait on the Lord!
shall the mountains depart, nor shall your hills be removed; so neither shall My mercy fail you, nor shall the covenant of your peace be at all removed; for the Lord who is gracious to you has spoken it.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God shall help her with His countenance.
Trust in God with all your heart; and be not exalted in your own wisdom.In all your ways acquaint yourself with her, that she may rightly direct your paths.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment. But he that fears has not been made perfect in love.
Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why do you trouble me? Hope in God; for I will give thanks to Him; He is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Finally brothers, farewell. Restore yourselves, comfort yourselves, be in agreement, be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Therefore let us come boldly to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
For the end, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; and He attended to me, and hearkened to my supplication.And He brought me up out of a pit of misery, and from miry clay; and He set my feet upon a rock, and established my steps.
Comfort one another, you fainthearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God renders judgment, and He will render it; He will come and save us.
And the Lord that goes with you shall not forsake you nor abandon you; fear not, neither be afraid.
As if his mother should comfort one, so will I also comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
He shall overshadow you with His shoulders, and You shall trust under His wings; His truth shall cover you with a shield.You shall not be afraid of terror by night; nor of the arrow flying by day;
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.He who calls you is faithful, who also will do this.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come,nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I do not ask that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one.
out of all their affliction; not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but He Himself saved them, because He loved them and spared them; He Himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.
For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again unto fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, "I am the light of the world. He that follows Me shall by no means walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."
The mountains are round about her, and so the Lord is round about His people, from this time forth and forever.
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and who destroyed the dividing wall of separation,
And now, have you not known? Have you not heard? The eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of His understanding.He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.
having been persuaded of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus;
Know that the Lord, He is God; He made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.
As a father pities his children, the Lord pities them that 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 should 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 requested from Him.
A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Edom. O God, my God, I cry to You early; my soul has thirsted for You: how often has my flesh longed after You, in a barren and trackless and dry land!Thus have I appeared before You in the sanctuary, that I might see Your power and Your glory.For Your mercy is better than life: my lips shall praise You.Thus will I bless You during my life: I will lift up my hands in Your name.
teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
The steps of a man are rightly ordered by the Lord; and He will take pleasure in his way.When he falls, he shall not be ruined; for the Lord supports his hand.
I, even I, am He that comforts you; consider who you are, that you were afraid of mortal man, and of the son of man, who have withered as grass.
I called on the Lord out of affliction; and He hearkened to me, and brought me into a wide place.The Lord is my helper; and I will not fear, what shall 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 tribulation, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, by means of the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
For You have been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty; You shall deliver them from wicked men; You have been a shelter for them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
My heart and my flesh have failed; but God is the strength of my heart, and God is my portion forever.
For behold, I have blotted your transgressions out as a cloud, and your sin as darkness; turn to Me, and I will redeem you.
which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and secure, and which enters into the inner side of the veil,
How have You multiplied Your mercy, O God! So the children of men shall trust in the shelter of Your wings.They shall be fully satisfied with the fatness of Your house; and You shall cause them to drink of the full stream of Your delights.
And how shall they preach unless they are sent? Just as it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those preaching the gospel of good things!"
through the tender mercy of our God, with which the Dayspring from on high has visited us;to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
Watch, stand fast in the faith, be courageous, be strong.Let all that you do be done in love.
Finally, my brothers, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.
The Lord also has become a refuge for the poor, a seasonable help, in affliction.And let them that know Your name hope in You - for You, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek You.
But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and will guard you from the evil one.
Those fearing and reverencing men unreasonably have been overthrown, but he that trusts in the Lord shall rejoice. Ungodliness causes a man to stumble, but he that trusts in his master shall be safe.
For you shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness; for the mountains and the hills shall exalt to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the coming glory to be revealed in us.
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly more than all the things which we ask or think, according to the power which is working in us,to Him be glory in the church in Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
And now thus says the Lord God that made you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel, Fear not; for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name; you are Mine.
For anger is in His wrath, but life in His favor; weeping shall tarry for the evening, but joy comes in the morning.
What many and great afflictions have You shown me! Yet You turned and revived me, and brought me again from the depths of the earth.You multiplied Your righteousness, and turned and comforted me, and brought me again out of the depths of the earth.
Now may the God of patience and of encouragement grant you to be like-minded among one another, according to Christ Jesus,
Let not your foot be moved; and let not your keeper slumber.Behold, He that keeps Israel shall not 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 my God, His way is perfect: the oracles of the Lord are tried in the fire; He is a protector of all them that hope in Him.
and that you aspire to be quiet, and to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,
For by this hope we were saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly await it with endurance.
The Lord gives wisdom to the blind; the Lord sets up the broken down; the Lord loves the righteous:; the Lord preserves the strangers;
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.I thank my God always on your behalf for the grace of God which was given to you in Christ Jesus,
And looking on them, Jesus said to them, "With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."
For thus says the Lord: Behold, I turn toward them as a river of peace, and as a torrent bringing upon them in a flood the glory of the Gentiles; their children shall be borne upon the shoulders, and comforted on the knees.
Let all those that seek You, O Lord, exalt and rejoice in You; and let them that love Your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified!
But godliness with contentment is great gain.For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain that neither can we carry anything out!
But let all that trust in You be glad in You: they shall rejoice forever, and You shall dwell among them; and all that love Your name shall rejoice in You.
His government shall be great, and of His peace there is no end; it shall be upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgment and with righteousness, from this time forward and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.
For as many things as were previously written, were written for our own instruction, that through the patience and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we may have hope.
Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them shall fall on the ground apart from the will of your Father.But even the hairs of your head are all numbered.Therefore do not fear; you are worth more than many sparrows.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that in everything always having all sufficiency, you may abound for every good work,
and your God shall be with you continually, and you shall be satisfied according as your soul desires; and your bones shall be made fat, and shall be as a well-watered garden, and as a fountain from which the water has not failed.
For the Lord loves mercy and truth; God will give grace and glory; the Lord will not withhold good things from them that walk in innocence.