Seven verses for anxious days
When worry crowds in, these passages on peace offer a place to rest your mind and steady your breathing.
By Random Verse Editorial ·
Anxiety rarely announces itself politely. These verses are worth keeping close for the moments when it arrives.
Peace that guards the heart
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7
Notice the order: prayer, thanksgiving, and then peace that keeps — a word that suggests a guard standing watch.
Stillness
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
Psalm 46:10
A mind that rests
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Isaiah 26:3
More to carry with you
- John 14:27 — “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.”
- Matthew 11:28 — an invitation to the weary and heavy laden.
- Psalm 4:8 — a verse for lying down to sleep.
- Exodus 14:14 — “The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.”
Choose the Peace theme in the generator to draw from all of them.
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