Bible Verses About Peace: Social

So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.

I will give peace in your coasts: you shall sleep, and there shall be none to make you afraid. I will take away evil beasts: and the sword shall not pass through your quarters.

But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin.

As a neighbour and as an own brother, so did I please: as one mourning and sorrowful so was I humbled.

The sun shall not burn thee by day: nor the moon by night.

The Lord keepeth thee from all evil: may the Lord keep thy soul.

A gradual canticle. Behold now bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord: Who stand in the house of the Lord, in the courts of the house of our God.

Deceit is in the heart of them that think evil things: but joy followeth them that take counsels of peace.

It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.

When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.

Better is a dry morsel with joy, than a house full of victims with strife.

The beginning of quarrels is as when one letteth out water: and before he suffereth reproach, he forsaketh judgment.

It is an honour for a man to separate himself from quarrels: but all fools are meddling with reproaches.

Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

And he shall judge the Gentiles, and rebuke many people: and they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they be exercised any more to war.

I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

And seek the peace of the city, to which I have caused you to be carried away captives; and pray to the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall be your peace.

And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great solemnities: only love ye truth and peace.

Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

The brother also shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the son; and the children shall rise up against their parents, and shall put them to death.

And you shall be hated by all men for my name's sake: but he that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved.

Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword.

For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.