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100 Bible Verses about Peace

John 16:33 ESV / 2,215 helpful votes

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.”

2 Thessalonians 3:16 ESV / 2,029 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 1,757 helpful votes

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

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 1,481 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 1,304 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

John 14:27 ESV / 1,266 helpful votes

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.

Romans 12:18 ESV / 1,169 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 1,147 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 1,045 helpful votes

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

Psalm 4:8 ESV / 1,026 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 1,012 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:6 ESV / 901 helpful votes

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

Romans 15:13 ESV / 872 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 797 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:1 ESV / 795 helpful votes

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

James 3:18 ESV / 785 helpful votes

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

1 Peter 3:11 ESV / 774 helpful votes

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

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 723 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 711 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 687 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 673 helpful votes

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

Psalm 29:11 ESV / 639 helpful votes

May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 602 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 578 helpful votes

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

Matthew 10:34-36 ESV / 576 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

Proverbs 12:20 ESV / 568 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 517 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 511 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 503 helpful votes

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, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Romans 14:19 ESV / 490 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 490 helpful votes

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 486 helpful votes

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.

James 3:17 ESV / 453 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 439 helpful votes

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

Jude 1:2 ESV / 426 helpful votes

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 421 helpful votes

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Isaiah 52:7 ESV / 387 helpful votes

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.”

Psalm 85:8 ESV / 382 helpful votes

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.

1 Peter 3:9-11 ESV / 374 helpful votes

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

Luke 2:14 ESV / 368 helpful votes

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 347 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 53:5 ESV / 344 helpful votes

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

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 342 helpful votes

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 321 helpful votes

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Romans 16:20 ESV / 319 helpful votes

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

1 Peter 3:10-11 ESV / 312 helpful votes

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 286 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Isaiah 32:17 ESV / 285 helpful votes

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

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 273 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 271 helpful votes

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.”

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 265 helpful votes

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Romans 14:17 ESV / 246 helpful votes

For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 242 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 240 helpful votes

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 239 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 234 helpful votes

Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Psalm 37:37 ESV / 226 helpful votes

Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 225 helpful votes

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Job 22:21 ESV / 209 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 26:12 ESV / 203 helpful votes

O Lord, you will ordain peace for us, for you have indeed done for us all our works.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 200 helpful votes

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Romans 15:33 ESV / 200 helpful votes

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

James 2:14-24 ESV / 192 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...

John 14:1-31 ESV / 190 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 186 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Leviticus 26:6 ESV / 185 helpful votes

I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.

Romans 12:17 ESV / 179 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.

John 20:19 ESV / 171 helpful votes

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

Mark 9:50 ESV / 170 helpful votes

Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, how will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

Isaiah 54:13 ESV / 170 helpful votes

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

Numbers 6:26 ESV / 164 helpful votes

The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Luke 1:79 ESV / 160 helpful votes

To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Proverbs 17:1 ESV / 156 helpful votes

Better is a dry morsel with quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.

Isaiah 32:18 ESV / 151 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 150 helpful votes

“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? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...

Isaiah 48:22 ESV / 140 helpful votes

“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

Jeremiah 33:6 ESV / 137 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:14 ESV / 132 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 131 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 131 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 129 helpful votes

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Philippians 4:1-23 ESV / 129 helpful votes

Therefore, my brothers, whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm thus in the Lord, my beloved. I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord. Yes, I ask you also, true companion, help these women, who have labored side by side with me in the gospel together with Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life. Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; ...

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 122 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Isaiah 57:21 ESV / 122 helpful votes

There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 116 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Psalm 85:10 ESV / 116 helpful votes

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

Numbers 6:25-26 ESV / 113 helpful votes

The Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Philemon 1:3 ESV / 112 helpful votes

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

John 16:1-33 ESV / 110 helpful votes

“I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ ...

Malachi 2:5 ESV / 110 helpful votes

My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him. It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.

1 Timothy 2:1-2 ESV / 109 helpful votes

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 109 helpful votes

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 108 helpful votes

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 103 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 2:4 ESV / 101 helpful votes

He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.

Proverbs 3:13-18 ESV / 100 helpful votes

Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. ...

Psalm 73:26 ESV / 100 helpful votes

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

John 3:16-17 ESV / 99 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 3:24 ESV / 99 helpful votes

If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.

Ecclesiastes 3:8 ESV / 98 helpful votes

A time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

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