Peace
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Peace’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 174 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Genesis 13:8 OT
Abram said to Lot, “Please, let there be no strife between you and me, and between your herdsmen and my herdsmen; for we are relatives.
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Genesis 13:9 OT
Isn’t the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left.”
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that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”
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Esther 10:3 OT
For Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.
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Psalms 120:7 OT
I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.
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So he sent his brothers away, and they departed. He said to them, “See that you don’t quarrel on the way.”
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“ ‘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.
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Job 5:23 OT
For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
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Job 5:24 OT
You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
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Psalms 34:14 OT
Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
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Psalms 120:6 OT
My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.
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Psalms 133:1 OT
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
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Deceit is in the heart of those who plot evil, but joy comes to the promoters of peace.
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Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, than a fattened calf with hatred.
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When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
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Better is a dry morsel with quietness, than a house full of feasting with strife.
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The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
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It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.
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Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.
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Isaiah 2:4 OT
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. 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…
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Isaiah 45:7 OT
I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create calamity. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.
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Seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to Yahweh for it; for in its peace you will have peace.”
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Hosea 2:18 OT
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…
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Yahweh of Armies says: “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.”