1 Thessalonians 3:7

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

For I rejoiced greatly when brothers came and testified about your truth, even as you walk in truth.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Yahweh will give strength to his people. Yahweh will bless his people with peace.

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

For we have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

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

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

I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

How narrow is the gate, and restricted is the way that leads to life! Few are those who find it.

I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.

When Peter had come up to Jerusalem, those who were of the circumcision contended with him,

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

For they refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge those who are like that.

Nevertheless, he who comforts the lowly, God, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

and through him to reconcile all things to himself by him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

that no one would be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed to this task.

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.

He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

For the Lord Yahweh will help me. Therefore I have not been confounded. Therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Cheer up! It is I! Don’t be afraid.”

that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

He departed there, and went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue.

Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were delivered.

that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.

Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed, and each as the Lord gave to him?

If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair;

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

For it isn’t he who commends himself who is approved, but whom the Lord commends.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

That which was a temptation to you in my flesh, you didn’t despise nor reject; but you received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

As many as walk by this rule, peace and mercy be on them, and on God’s Israel.

having the same conflict which you saw in me and now hear is in me.

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

For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.

to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”,

choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time,

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved in various trials,

For you were called to this, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.

Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed. He divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

Yahweh’s anger burned against Moses, and he said, “What about Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he is coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters; but David strengthened himself in Yahweh his God.

I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin.

Come and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.

You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

In that day you will say, “I will give thanks to you, Yahweh; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.

He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.

“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”

As they said these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

they took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet him, and cried out, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel!”

I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another Counselor, that he may be with you forever:

When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.

From there the brothers, when they heard of us, came to meet us as far as The Market of Appius and The Three Taverns. When Paul saw them, he thanked God and took courage.

but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Therefore we have been comforted. In our comfort we rejoiced the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

and Jesus who is called Justus. These are my only fellow workers for God’s Kingdom who are of the circumcision, men who have been a comfort to me.

I rejoice greatly that I have found some of your children walking in truth, even as we have been commanded by the Father.