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What does it mean for Christians to have peace? Sometimes we don’t feel all that peaceful because of various concerns, trials, and anxieties we experience in this world.
It’s critically important for believers to recognize that they are declared righteous in Christ and always have objective peace with God that can never be taken away from them. While our subjective feelings of peace can ebb and flow, these feelings never change our status before God. Here are 25 Bible passages about peace in Christ (all Scripture quotations from the English Standard Version):
Believers can feel anxious under various trials and lack a sense of peace.
1. I say to God,my rock:
“Why have you forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?” (Ps. 42:9)2. Save me, O God!
Forthe waters have come up to my neck.
I sink in deepmire,
where there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters,
and the floodsweeps over me.
I am weary with my crying out;
my throat is parched.
My eyes grow dim
withwaiting for my God. (Ps. 69:1-3)
Believers are no longer under condemnation but rather are declared righteous in Jesus Christ because of his perfect obedience and single sacrifice for sin that are imputed (counted) to them.
3. “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.” (John 14:27)
4. Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (Rom. 5:1)
5. For as by the one man'sdisobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man'sobedience the many will be made righteous. (Rom. 5:19)
6. There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law ofthe Spirit of lifehas set youfree in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. (Rom. 8:1-2)
7. For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Cor. 5:21)
8. Indeed, I count everything as loss because ofthe surpassing worth ofknowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake Ihave suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not havinga righteousness of my own that comes from the law, butthat which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith. (Phil. 3:8-9)
9. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, hesat down at the right hand of God,waiting from that timeuntil his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet.For by a single offeringhe has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. (Heb. 10:12-14)
10. He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. (1 Pet. 2:24)
Believers are a new creation in Christ, and the Spirit of God dwells in them.
11. Jesus answered,“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is bornof water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh isflesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be bornagain.’” (John 3:5-6)
12. Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? (1 Cor. 3:16)
13. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own. (1 Cor. 6:19)
14. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. (2 Cor. 5:17)
15. Since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God. (1 Pet. 1:23)
Believers can have a greater sense of peace by focusing their hearts and minds on God.
16. You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. (Isa. 26:3)
17. 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. (Phil. 4:6-7)
18. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. (James 3:17)
19. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,casting all your anxieties on him, becausehe cares for you. (1 Pet. 5:6-7)
Even though believers can get discouraged by the struggles of this world, they can be confident that they will be sanctified completely upon Christ’s return and live forever in glory with God.
20. “Andthis is the will of him who sent me,that I should lose nothing ofall that he has given me, butraise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone wholooks on the Son andbelieves in himshould have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” (John 6:39-40)
21. For those whom heforeknew he alsopredestinedto be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might bethe firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he alsojustified, and those whom he justified he alsoglorified. (Rom. 8:29-30)
22. 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. (1 Thess. 5:23)
23. May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. (2 Pet. 2:1-4)
24. Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. (Heb. 12:2)
25. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold,the dwelling place of God is with man. He willdwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, anddeath shall be no more,neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Andhe who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, Iam making all things new.”(Rev. 21:3-5)
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