Bible Verses About Peace: Social

So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”

“‘I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and no one will make you afraid. I will remove evil animals out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

Depart from evil, and do good. seek peace, and pursue it.

My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

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

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.

Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.

When a man’s ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.

The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife; but every fool will be quarreling.

Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.

Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the LORD for it; for in its peace you shall have peace.

In that day I will make a covenant for them with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the sky, and with the creeping things of the ground. I will break the bow, the sword, and the battle out of the land, and will make them lie down safely.

Thus says the LORD of Hosts: “The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”

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

“Brother will deliver up brother to death, and the father his child. Children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

You will be hated by all men for my name’s sake, but he who endures to the end will be saved.

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

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