100 Bible Verses about Peace On Earth

John 14:27 ESV / 357 helpful votes

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.

John 16:33 ESV / 304 helpful votes

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.”

Luke 2:14 ESV / 268 helpful votes

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 253 helpful votes

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 249 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 197 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 24:6-7 ESV / 187 helpful votes

And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.

Proverbs 16:7 ESV / 181 helpful votes

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

Isaiah 9:6-7 ESV / 167 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

Luke 12:51 ESV / 155 helpful votes

Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

Isaiah 9:6 ESV / 154 helpful votes

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

2 Thessalonians 3:16 ESV / 149 helpful votes

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in every way. The Lord be with you all.

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 144 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Psalm 4:8 ESV / 140 helpful votes

In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

Romans 12:18 ESV / 136 helpful votes

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

James 4:2-3 ESV / 134 helpful votes

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 128 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

John 3:16 ESV / 127 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 127 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 120 helpful votes

And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

James 3:18 ESV / 117 helpful votes

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Jeremiah 8:11 ESV / 115 helpful votes

They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.

Matthew 10:34 ESV / 107 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.

Ephesians 2:14 ESV / 104 helpful votes

For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility

Ephesians 4:3 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Psalm 119:165 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.

Philippians 4:7 ESV / 102 helpful votes

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 ESV / 96 helpful votes

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. ...

Revelation 21:3-4 ESV / 94 helpful votes

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Matthew 10:34-36 ESV / 94 helpful votes

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

Philippians 4:9 ESV / 93 helpful votes

What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Romans 8:6 ESV / 93 helpful votes

For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 89 helpful votes

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Micah 5:5-6 ESV / 89 helpful votes

And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men; they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod at its entrances; and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 87 helpful votes

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

2 Corinthians 13:11 ESV / 86 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

Romans 16:20 ESV / 86 helpful votes

The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

Psalm 29:11 ESV / 86 helpful votes

May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 82 helpful votes

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Isaiah 52:7 ESV / 81 helpful votes

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.”

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 80 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Leviticus 26:6 ESV / 80 helpful votes

I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid. And I will remove harmful beasts from the land, and the sword shall not go through your land.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 73 helpful votes

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.

1 Thessalonians 5:23 ESV / 72 helpful votes

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Luke 1:79 ESV / 71 helpful votes

To give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Isaiah 2:4 ESV / 70 helpful votes

He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for 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 anymore.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

1 Peter 3:9-11 ESV / 67 helpful votes

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing. For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

Romans 14:19 ESV / 66 helpful votes

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

2 Timothy 2:22 ESV / 63 helpful votes

So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Psalm 37:37 ESV / 63 helpful votes

Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

John 1:1 ESV / 62 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Psalm 85:8 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, to his saints; but let them not turn back to folly.

1 Peter 3:11 ESV / 61 helpful votes

Let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 61 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 61 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 60 helpful votes

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Isaiah 12:2 ESV / 60 helpful votes

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the Lord God is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation.”

John 14:6 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 59 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 56 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Psalm 23:4 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 55 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 55 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 55 helpful votes

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 54 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Peter 3:10-11 ESV / 53 helpful votes

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit; let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

Isaiah 55:12 ESV / 53 helpful votes

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

John 18:36 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”

Matthew 7:12 ESV / 52 helpful votes

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

Micah 5:5 ESV / 52 helpful votes

And he shall be their peace. When the Assyrian comes into our land and treads in our palaces, then we will raise against him seven shepherds and eight princes of men;

Jeremiah 33:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.

Psalm 122:6 ESV / 52 helpful votes

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 51 helpful votes

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

James 3:17 ESV / 50 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Micah 6:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes

He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Isaiah 9:7 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

Philippians 4:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Luke 2:13 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 47 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 2:15 ESV / 45 helpful votes

When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 45 helpful votes

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 44 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 3:20 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

James 2:26 ESV / 44 helpful votes

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Hebrews 12:11 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Isaiah 48:22 ESV / 37 helpful votes

“There is no peace,” says the Lord, “for the wicked.”

1 Thessalonians 5:15 ESV / 36 helpful votes

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

Jude 1:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes

May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

James 2:14-24 ESV / 33 helpful votes

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...

Matthew 11:28 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

John 1:11 ESV / 31 helpful votes

He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

Psalm 21:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes

For you make him most blessed forever; you make him glad with the joy of your presence.

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