Bible Verses About Peace

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.

And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy Judah, And Judah doth not distress Ephraim.

And dwelt hath My people in a peaceful habitation, And in stedfast tabernacles, And in quiet resting-places.

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

There is no peace, said Jehovah, to the wicked!

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.

Destruction hath come, And they have sought peace, and there is none.

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,

and the enemies of a man are those of his household.

The salt is good, but if the salt may become saltless, in what will ye season it ? Have in yourselves salt, and have peace in one another.'

`Glory in the highest to God, and upon earth peace, among men--good will.'

`On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?

and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?

to kill me dost thou wish, as thou didst kill yesterday the Egyptian?