Bible Verses About Peace

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.

And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Juda shall perish: Ephraim shall not envy Juda, and Juda shall not fight against Ephraim.

And my people shall sit in the beauty of peace, and in the tabernacles of confidence, and in wealthy rest.

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

There is no peace to the wicked, saith the Lord.

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.

When distress cometh upon them, they will seek for peace and there shall be none.

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.

And a man's enemies shall be they of his own household.

Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

Glory to God in the highest: and on earth peace to men of good will.

And the day following, he shewed himself to them when they were at strife and would have reconciled them in peace, saying: Men, ye are brethren. Why hurt you one another?

But he that did the injury to his neighbour thrust him away, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge over us:

What! Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst yesterday kill the Egyptian?