John 20:21

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

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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.”

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

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

With great power, the apostles gave their testimony of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Great grace was on them all.

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of God’s Spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and around as far as to Illyricum, I have fully preached the Good News of Christ;

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

Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

We are his witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.

But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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

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.

Go your ways. Behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.

For John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”

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

You will also testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

Don’t be afraid because of them, for I am with you to rescue you,” says Yahweh.

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father; so he who feeds on me, he will also live because of me.

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

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

For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

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

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

She said, “No one, Lord.” Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more.”

This is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.

Pilate therefore said to him, “Are you a king then?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I have been born, and for this reason I have come into the world, that I should testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.”

beginning from the baptism of John, to the day that he was received up from us, of these one must become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

and he was seen for many days by those who came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses to the people.

For you will be a witness for him to all men of what you have seen and heard.

For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

He turned himself away from them, and wept. Then he returned to them, and spoke to them, and took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes.

They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Mercy and truth meet together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

Yahweh has made his holy arm bare in the eyes of all the nations. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.

All your children will be taught by Yahweh; and your children’s peace will be great.

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

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

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

You are witnesses of these things.

For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude standing around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things, and will remind you of all that I said to you.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

As you sent me into the world, even so I have sent them into the world.

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

Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Good News of God,

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

if it is so that you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the Good News which you heard, which is being proclaimed in all creation under heaven, of which I, Paul, was made a servant.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God gives the Spirit without measure.

My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand.

do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God?’

Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send, receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me.”

You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

He said, “Peace be to you. Don’t be afraid. Your God, and the God of your father, has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money.” He brought Simeon out to them.

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.

Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.

He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

You heard how I told you, ‘I go away, and I come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said ‘I am going to my Father;’ for the Father is greater than I.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

We are therefore ambassadors on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Yahweh lift up his face toward you, and give you peace.’

I didn’t send these prophets, yet they ran. I didn’t speak to them, yet they prophesied.

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

He answered them, “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man,

Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

He said to them, “Go into all the world, and preach the Good News to the whole creation.

But he said to them, “I must preach the good news of God’s Kingdom to the other cities also. For this reason I have been sent.”

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.

After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”

And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”

Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes,

Paul, an apostle—not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same things to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained a like precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ:

We are of God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not of God doesn’t listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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.”

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,