23 Bible Verses About Calmness



  • Mark 4:39 records that after Jesus said “Quiet! Be still!” the wind died down “and it was completely calm.”
  • Psalm 131:2 describes calm as something David did: “I have calmed and quieted myself,” like a weaned child with its mother.
  • Isaiah 30:15 calls quietness and trust the people’s strength, spoken against people who had gone to Egypt for Pharaoh’s protection.
  • John 16:33 promises peace in Jesus in the same verse that says “In this world you will have trouble.”
  • Proverbs 15:18 and Ecclesiastes 10:4 apply calm to a quarrel and to an angry ruler.

In the Bible, calm is something God makes and gives, and also something a person does. Jesus speaks to the waves and “it was completely calm” (Mark 4:39), and David says, “I have calmed and quieted myself” (Psalm 131:2). Calm also appears as the stillness Moses asks of Israel with the Egyptian army behind them (Exodus 14:14), as quietness and trust set against an alliance with Egypt (Isaiah 30:15), as peace given in answer to prayer (Philippians 4:6-7), the peace…

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