Bible Verses About Peace

Avram said to Lot, "Please, let's not have quarreling between me and you, or between my herdsmen and yours, since we're kinsmen.

Isn't the whole land there in front of you? Please separate yourself from me - if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left."

that you will not harm us, just as we have not caused you offense but have done you nothing but good and sent you on your way in peace. Now you are blessed by ADONAI.'"

Thus he sent his brothers on their way, and they left; he said to them, "Don't quarrel among yourselves while you're traveling!"

"'I will give shalom in the land -you will lie down to sleep unafraid of anyone. I will rid the land of wild animals. The sword will not go through your land.

For Mordekhai the Jew was second only to King Achashverosh; he was a great man among the Jews, popular with all his many countrymen. He sought the good of his people and interceded for the welfare of all their descendants.

"How happy the person whom God corrects! So don't despise Shaddai's discipline.

for you will be in league with the stones in the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

You will know that your tent is safe; you will look round your home and miss nothing.

I bless ADONAI, my counselor; at night my inmost being instructs me.

Don't drag me off with the wicked, with those whose deeds are evil; they speak words of peace to their fellowmen, but evil is in their hearts.

Which of you takes pleasure in living? Who wants a long life to see good things?

turn from evil, and do good; seek peace, go after it!

For they don't speak words of peace but devise ways to deceive the peaceful of the land.

I have had to live far too long with those who hate peace.

I am all for peace; but when I speak, they are for war.

Pray for shalom in Yerushalayim; may those who love you prosper.

May shalom be within your ramparts, prosperity in your palaces.

For the sake of my family and friends, I say, "Shalom be within you!"

But as for those who turn aside to their own crooked ways, may ADONAI turn them away, along with those who do evil. Shalom on Isra'el!

and may you live to see your children's children! Shalom on Isra'el.

A song of ascents. By David: Oh, how good, how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in harmony.

he brings peace within your borders, he gives you your fill of the finest wheat.

Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil, but for those advising peace there is joy.

Better a vegetable dinner with love than a stall-fattened ox with hate.