20 Bible Verses About Peace

This summer, we took our family to the beach for vacation. We stayed right on the water, and each morning we picked up bagels and lattes from a nearby café and ate our breakfast overlooking the water. The morning light cast hues of pink and orange across the sky, and we watched as pods of dolphins swam by. As I looked at my family gathered around the table, laughing, relaxed, unhurried, I thought, “This is as close to perfect peace as you can get!”

With no work to tend to, no conflicts to mediate, and no pressure to be anywhere but together, it felt like a tiny foretaste of shalom. In Scripture, shalom means more than the absence of conflict. It signifies a sense of well-being, harmony inside and out, wholeness, fullness, and rest. It’s a state of calm free of anxiety or stress. Who wouldn’t long for more of that?

This longing for peace is part of what it means to be human. In the Garden of Eden, our first parents experienced Shalom with God and with each other. They walked with him in the cool of the day, and they had unbroken fellowship. Can you imagine what that must have been like before sin interrupted and ruined everything? That harmony is the peace with God and the peace of God we were made to know.

Are you longing to know and experience that peace? God’s Word has a lot to say about peace. Here are 20 verses to get you started on your study.

20 Bible Verses About Peace

Numbers 6:24–26 (ESV)
“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.”
Psalm 4:8 (ESV)
In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 29:11 (ESV)
May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!
Psalm 85:8 (ESV)
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.
Psalm 119:165 (ESV)
Great peace have those who love your law; nothing can make them stumble.
Proverbs 16:7 (ESV)
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
Isaiah 26:3 (ESV)
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 53:5 (ESV)
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 54:10 (ESV)
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 55:12 (ESV)
“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 14:27 (ESV)
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.
Romans 5:1 (ESV)
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 8:6 (ESV)
For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
Romans 16:20 (ESV)
The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11 (ESV)
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.
Galatians 5:22 (ESV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Colossians 3:15 (ESV)
And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Philippians 4:6–7 (ESV)
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.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 (ESV)
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.
Jude 1:2 (ESV)
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Jesus is Our Peace

For believers, who have been reconciled to God through the blood of Jesus, we already have peace with God. We’re no longer his enemies but his beloved children. Our sins have been forgiven at the cross, and we have been justified and are being sanctified (Rom. 5:1). This is the unshakeable peace we have with God.

But Scripture also speaks of the peace of God. This kind of peace is a settled assurance in the sovereignty of God and a sense of well-being despite our circumstances. This peace is provided through his Word, “Great peace have those who love your law, and nothing causes them to stumble” (Psa. 119:165). His presence and his Word provide abundant, otherworldly, indescribable peace even in life’s fiercest storms.

But we still live in a broken, sinful world. We long for peace: a shalom that pervades our lives from the inside out. Although we enjoy little foretastes of peace and enjoy his creation and good gifts, the best part is that Jesus is our peace. He has made peace with us by the blood of his cross, and he promises a day when shalom will be our reality forever.

Until then, we hold fast to Jesus in his Word, lean on his promises, and walk in the peace that he gives. He is our Shalom. Our peace that surpasses understanding and shall never pass away.