Bible Verses About Peace: Social

And he sendeth his brethren away, and they go; and he saith unto them, `Be not angry in the way.'

`And I have given peace in the land, and ye have lain down, and there is none causing trembling; and I have caused evil beasts to cease out of the land, and the sword doth not pass over into your land.

(For with sons of the field is thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)

And thou hast known that thy tent is peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,

Turn aside from evil and do good, Seek peace and pursue it.

Too much hath my soul dwelt with him who is hating peace.

I am peace, and when I speak they are for war!

A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!

Deceit is in the heart of those devising evil, And to those counselling peace is joy.

Better is an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.

When a man's ways please Jehovah, even his enemies, He causeth to be at peace with him.

Better is a dry morsel, and rest with it, Than a house full of the sacrifices of strife.

The beginning of contention is a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

An honour to a man is cessation from strife, And every fool intermeddleth.

`Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'

And He hath judged between the nations, And hath given a decision to many peoples, And they have beat their swords to ploughshares, And their spears to pruning-hooks, Nation doth not lift up sword unto nation, Nor do they learn any more--war.

Forming light, and preparing darkness, Making peace, and preparing evil, I am Jehovah, doing all these things.'

And seek the peace of the city whither I have removed you, and pray for it unto Jehovah, for in its peace ye have peace.

And I have made to them a covenant in that day, with the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the creeping thing of the ground, And bow, and sword, and war I break from off the land, And have caused them to lie down confidently.

`Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: The fast of the fourth, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth months , are to the house of Judah for joy and for rejoicing, and for pleasant appointed seasons, and the truth and the peace they have loved.

`Happy the peacemakers--because they shall be called Sons of God.

`And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

`Ye may not suppose that I came to put peace on the earth; I did not come to put peace, but a sword;

for I came to set a man at variance against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,