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 giveth, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye will have tribulation, but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.
Come to me, all ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me: for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls.For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting-places;
Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all consolation.Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them who are in any trouble by the consolation with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Therefore I say to you, Be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than food, and the body than raiment?
That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail;
For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counselors of peace is joy.
For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thy exactors righteousness.
Nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things?
All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will in no wise reject.
The word which God sent to the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.
Therefore be not anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be solicitous for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is its own evil.
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
These things have I spoken to you, that my joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, to all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness;
And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle-bow shall be cut off: and he shall speak peace to the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth.
Blessed be the LORD, that hath given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.
A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD, shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.
Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be to you: as my Father hath sent me, even so I send you.
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep; for thou only, LORD, makest me dwell in safety.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
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, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace to his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things to himself; by him, I say, whether they are things on earth, or things in heaven.
He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each one walking in his uprightness.
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Thus saith 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 joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
But he was wounded for our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word to thy servant.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith to Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things with which one may edify another.
And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. And be at peace among yourselves.
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace will be with you.
O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea:
For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.