Bible Verses about 'Peace and understanding'
- For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. - Happy are those who find wisdom,
and those who get understanding. - To get wisdom is to love oneself;
to keep understanding is to prosper. - A fool takes no pleasure in understanding,
but only in expressing personal opinion. - Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom.
- The unfolding of your words gives light;
it imparts understanding to the simple. - Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
but one who has a hasty temper exalts folly. - How much better to get wisdom than gold!
To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. - Do not worry 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.
- May mercy, peace, and love be yours in abundance.
- The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;
all those who practice it have a good understanding.
His praise endures forever. - And ‘to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love one's neighbor as oneself,’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
- And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
- I want their hearts to be encouraged and united in love, so that they may have all the riches of assured understanding and have the knowledge of God's mystery, that is, Christ himself.
- Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget, nor turn away
from the words of my mouth. - Depart from evil, and do good;
seek peace, and pursue it. - And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.
- Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable. - The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,
and whatever else you get, get insight. - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. - Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and do not rely on your own insight.
In all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make straight your paths. - Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
- Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
- Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let them be afraid.
- Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with all of you.
- Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace among those whom he favors! - Those of steadfast mind you keep in peace—
in peace because they trust in you. - I will both lie down and sleep in peace;
for you alone, O Lord, make me lie down in safety. - To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
- Pursue peace with everyone, and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
- Great peace have those who love your law;
nothing can make them stumble. - And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
- Making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
- May the Lord give strength to his people!
May the Lord bless his people with peace! - He said to them, “Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) - Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
- Deceit is in the mind of those who plan evil,
but those who counsel peace have joy. - Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace will be with you.
- Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
- Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
- Therefore, since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
- For
“Those who desire life
and desire to see good days,
let them keep their tongues from evil
and their lips from speaking deceit;
let them turn away from evil and do good;
let them seek peace and pursue it.” - The God of peace will shortly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
- This means understanding that the law is laid down not for the innocent but for the lawless and disobedient, for the godless and sinful, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their father or mother, for murderers, fornicators, sodomites, slave traders, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to the sound teaching that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me.
- Husbands, in the same way, show consideration for your wives in your life together, paying honor to the woman as the weaker sex, since they too are also heirs of the gracious gift of life—so that nothing may hinder your prayers.
- 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. - By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
- For a child has been born for us,
a son given to us;
authority rests upon his shoulders;
and he is named
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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