Isaiah 32:17

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Summary

Isaiah 32:17

And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

The work

Quietness

General references

Psalm 37:37

Bible References

The work

You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you.

O that you had hearkened to my commandments! then had your peace been as a river, and your righteousness as the waves of the sea:

And all your children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of your children.

For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, says the LORD; and I will heal him.

For thus says the LORD, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall you nurse, you shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.

I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Great peace have they who love your law: and nothing shall offend them.

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

Be anxious for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Quietness

And many people shall go and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

Surely he shall not be moved forever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.

In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

And say unto them, Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, where they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.

And he shall judge between many peoples, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

Therefore rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall:

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

General references

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.