100 Bible Verses about Peace And Love

John 16:33 ESV / 211 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 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 196 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.

Jude 1:2 ESV / 180 helpful votes

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

John 14:27 ESV / 130 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.

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 124 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 16:14 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Let all that you do be done in love.

James 3:17 ESV / 112 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.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 91 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 88 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 87 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

2 John 1:3 ESV / 84 helpful votes

Grace, mercy, and peace will be with us, from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Father's Son, in truth and love.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 84 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.

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 83 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 82 helpful votes

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

James 3:18 ESV / 81 helpful votes

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

Psalm 4:8 ESV / 78 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:8 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 77 helpful votes

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

Romans 16:20 ESV / 77 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:6 ESV / 77 helpful votes

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

Psalm 29:11 ESV / 74 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:18 ESV / 70 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

2 Thessalonians 3:16 ESV / 69 helpful votes

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

Romans 12:18 ESV / 69 helpful votes

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

Romans 5:1 ESV / 68 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 67 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:37 ESV / 66 helpful votes

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 63 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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

1 John 4:16 ESV / 61 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 59 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.

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 58 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 57 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

Isaiah 52:7 ESV / 56 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 34:14 ESV / 54 helpful votes

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

Romans 14:17 ESV / 53 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.

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 52 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.

2 Timothy 1:2 ESV / 50 helpful votes

To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 49 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.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 48 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.

Luke 2:14 ESV / 47 helpful votes

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

Jude 1:3 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

Ephesians 1:4 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

John 3:16 ESV / 46 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 Thessalonians 4:9 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 45 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.

Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 44 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 1:7 ESV / 43 helpful votes

To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 3:11 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 42 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 12:20 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 41 helpful votes

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

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes

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

Colossians 2:1-23 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. ...

Romans 14:19 ESV / 38 helpful votes

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

Psalm 85:8 ESV / 38 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 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 37 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.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 37 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 36 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.

1 Peter 3:10-11 ESV / 35 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.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 34 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Isaiah 32:17 ESV / 34 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 4:2-3 ESV / 32 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 32 helpful votes

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

1 John 3:1 ESV / 31 helpful votes

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 31 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.

Colossians 3:14-15 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 26:12 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 16:32 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 29 helpful votes

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 29 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.

Matthew 10:34 ESV / 29 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.

Jeremiah 33:6 ESV / 27 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 6:15 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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

Philippians 4:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

John 14:1-31 ESV / 25 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?” ...

1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 14:2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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?

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 22 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.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 21 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;

Hebrews 13:20-21 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 Thessalonians 3:1-5:28 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain. ...

Romans 5:1-2 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Acts 9:31 ESV / 21 helpful votes

So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.

Jude 1:2-3 ESV / 20 helpful votes

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

Colossians 3:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Matthew 5:1-9:38 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Isaiah 52:1-57:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city; for there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake yourself from the dust and arise; be seated, O Jerusalem; loose the bonds from your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus says the Lord: “You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money.” For thus says the Lord God: “My people went down at the first into Egypt to sojourn there, and the Assyrian oppressed them for nothing. Now therefore what have I here,” declares the Lord, “seeing that my people are taken away for nothing? Their rulers wail,” declares the Lord, “and continually all the day my name is despised. ...

Proverbs 20:3 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 12:1-20:30 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid. A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a man of evil devices he condemns. No one is established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will never be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are just; the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. ...

Proverbs 3:1-2 ESV / 20 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.

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