Ephesians 2:14

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

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition 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 thoughts in Christ Jesus.

For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

to an administration of the fullness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in him.

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.

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

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.

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.

The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, in addition to his own who are gathered.”

For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. The light has shined on those who lived in the land of the shadow of death.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence forever.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

I will set up one shepherd over them, and he will feed them, even my servant David. He will feed them, and he will be their shepherd.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

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

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us. He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

For a child is born to us. A son is given to us; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them. It will be an everlasting covenant with them. I will place them, multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them forever more.

It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children among you. Then they shall be to you as the native-born among the children of Israel. They shall have inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

the people who sat in darkness saw a great light, to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is unwashed, hands, they found fault.

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

But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

saying, “You went in to uncircumcised men, and ate with them!”

He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Nevertheless, neither is the woman independent of the man, nor the man independent of the woman, in the Lord.

For before some people came from James, he ate with the Gentiles. But when they came, he drew back and separated himself, fearing those who were of the circumcision.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

having abolished in his flesh the hostility, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man of the two, making peace,

giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same good again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father, through him.

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.

Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel. I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all.

for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ,

and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator,

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all, and in all.

I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, “To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!”

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.

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.”

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.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

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

Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,

“You shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cherubim. It shall be the work of a skillful workman.

The priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs. They shall be holy to Yahweh for the priest.

Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

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

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.

and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.

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.”

He said to them, “You yourselves know how it is an unlawful thing for a man who is a Jew to join himself or come to one of another nation, but God has shown me that I shouldn’t call any man unholy or unclean.

The word which he sent to the children of Israel, preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ—he is Lord of all—

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

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

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”,