Bible Verses About Peace: Social

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Better a dry piece of bread with calm than a house full of food but also full of strife.

Starting a fight is like letting water through [a dike] -better stop the quarrel before it gets worse.

Avoiding quarrels brings a person honor; for any fool can explode in anger.

Better an armload with tranquillity than both arms full of effort and feeding on wind.

He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. Then they will hammer their swords into plow-blades and their spears into pruning-knives; nations will not raise swords at each other, and they will no longer learn war.

I form light, I create darkness; I make well-being, I create woe; I, ADONAI, do all these things.

Seek the welfare of the city to which I have caused you to go in exile, and pray to ADONAI on its behalf; for your welfare is bound up in its welfare.'

When that day comes, I will make a covenant for them with the wild animals, the birds in the air and the creeping things of the earth. I will break bow and sword, sweep battle from the land, and make them lie down securely.

"ADONAI-Tzva'ot says, 'The fast days of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months are to become times of joy, gladness and cheer for the house of Y'hudah. Therefore, love truth and peace.'

"How blessed are those who make peace! for they will be called sons of God.

"A brother will betray his brother to death, and a father his child; children will turn against their parents and have them put to death.

Everyone will hate you because of me, but whoever holds out till the end will be preserved from harm.

"Don't suppose that I have come to bring peace to the Land. It is not peace I have come to bring, but a sword!

For I have come to set