And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call—
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the Lord.
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people,
rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
And let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving, and tell of his deeds in songs of joy!
giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light.
remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
and he fell on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks. Now he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus answered, “Were not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.
But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord!”
Or let them lay hold of my protection, let them make peace with me, let them make peace with me.”
creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace, to the far and to the near,” says the Lord, “and I will heal him.
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