⁸And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

⁹Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

²⁹That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.

³For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

⁷I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.

²⁴So he sent his brethren away, and they departed: and he said unto them, See that ye fall not out by the way.

⁶And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.

²³For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

²⁴And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

¹⁴Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

⁶My soul hath long dwelt with him that hateth peace.

¹Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

²⁰Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.

¹⁷Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

⁷When a man’s ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.

¹Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices with strife.

¹⁴The beginning of strife is as when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

³It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

⁶Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.

⁴And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

⁷I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

⁷And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the LORD for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.

¹⁸And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

¹⁹Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.

⁹Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

²¹And the brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

²²And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

³⁴Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

³⁵For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

³⁶And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

⁵⁰Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.

¹⁴Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.