VERSES ABOUT PEACE

Even though this world we live in is full of violence, and your everyday life might be filled with conflict and confusion, God has promised you a peace that passes all understanding. We should strive, as God's children, to seek that peace every day and show His love.

You are called to have peace in the midst of any hardship you may face. Trusting in God will help you maintain that peace. His word says in Isaiah 26:3, "You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you."

God calls you to trust in Him. It might be hard right now, in your time of trouble and distress, but if you put your trust in your Heavenly Father, He will give you peace. God has already overcome the world. Don't be afraid. God has everything in His hands, and He's taking care of you.

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.

May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless[4] his people with peace!

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

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

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, 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."

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

Steadfast love and faithfulness meet; righteousness and peace kiss each other.

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good,[7] for those who are called according to his purpose.

And he said, "My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.

Your testimonies are my heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

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, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

"Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!"[3]

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for wholeness and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

"Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,

For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, "In returning[3] and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength." But you were unwilling,

Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but those who plan peace have joy.

I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the LORD sustained me.

Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.

Keep steady my steps according to your promise, and let no iniquity get dominion over me.

for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

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

nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near," says the LORD, "and I will heal him.

And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!"

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.[1]

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),

The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.

Thus says the LORD: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'

"Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present[2] help in trouble.

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

Trouble and anguish have found me out, but your commandments are my delight.

These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant,

May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy,

and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the war horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off, and he shall speak peace to the nations; his rule shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

"Blessed be the LORD who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.

Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed," says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

Finally, brothers,[1] rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another,[2] agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

He redeems my soul in safety from the battle that I wage, for many are arrayed against me.

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.

And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust[1] forever.

Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you."

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we[1] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon[4] his shoulder, and his name shall be called[5] Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Let me hear what God the LORD will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

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

he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness.

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

"Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"

But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.

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

Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant.

"Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God;[1] believe also in me.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns."

He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

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

This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.

and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons[1] of God.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength[2] of my heart and my portion forever.

O LORD, you will ordain peace for us; you have done for us all our works.

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me -- practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;

For thus says the LORD: "Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip, and bounced upon her knees.

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