Peace

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

“Do not be afraid, you who are highly precious,” he said. “Peace be with you! Be strong now; be very strong!” As he spoke with me, I was strengthened and said, “Speak, my lord, for you have strengthened me.”

You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.

¹⁶ Then justice will inhabit the wilderness, and righteousness will dwell in the fertile field.

¹⁷ The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.

¹⁸ Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.

If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.

⁹ “For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.

¹⁰ Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.

¹⁸ I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

¹⁹ bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”

²⁰ But the wicked are like the storm-tossed sea, for it cannot be still, and its waves churn up mire and muck.

²¹ “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”

Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.

²⁴ ‘May the LORD bless you and keep you;

²⁵ may the LORD cause His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;

²⁶ may the LORD lift up His countenance toward you and give you peace.’

I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

The LORD gives His people strength; the LORD blesses His people with peace.

²⁹ He calmed the storm to a whisper, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

³⁰ They rejoiced in the silence, and He guided them to the harbor they desired.

Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your instruction; nothing can make them stumble.

Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.

He must turn from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

Then Jehoshaphat’s kingdom was at peace, for his God had given him rest on every side.

¹⁴ For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

¹⁵ by abolishing in His flesh the law of commandments and decrees. He did this to create in Himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace

¹⁶ and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He extinguished their hostility.

¹⁷ He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

I will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.

Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

¹⁷ But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.

¹⁸ Peacemakers who sow in peace reap the fruit of righteousness.

Eight days later, His disciples were once again inside with the doors locked, and Thomas was with them. Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.”

²⁴ For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates —over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza—and he had peace on all sides.

²⁵ Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

Then David accepted from her hand what she had brought him, and he said to her, “Go home in peace. See, I have heeded your voice and granted your request.”

It was the first day of the week, and that very evening, while the disciples were together with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them. “Peace be with you!” He said to them.

When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.

The Israelites were satisfied with the report, and they blessed God and spoke no more about going to war against them to destroy the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived.

“Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”

⁴¹ As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

⁴² and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

But a son will be born to you who will be a man of rest. I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side; for his name will be Solomon, and I will grant to Israel peace and quiet during his reign.

The cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.

Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys

Then Abijah rested with his fathers and was buried in the City of David. And his son Asa reigned in his place, and in his days the land was at peace for ten years.

⁵ He also removed the high places and incense altars from all the cities of Judah, and under him the kingdom was at peace.

⁶ Because the land was at peace, Asa built fortified cities in Judah. In those days no one made war with him, because the LORD had given him rest.

And there was no war until the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria experienced a time of peace. It grew in strength and numbers, living in the fear of the Lord and the encouragement of the Holy Spirit.

³⁰ And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,

³¹ in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.

So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech, and the two men made a covenant.

²⁸ “We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you

²⁹ that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

³⁰ So Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

³¹ And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between you and me.”

⁵² This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.

⁵³ May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

⁵⁴ Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

⁵⁵ Early the next morning, Laban got up and kissed his grandchildren and daughters and blessed them. Then he left to return home.