18 Bible Verses About Peace and Strength in Hard Times



  • Psalm 29:11 puts strength and peace in one line, and both of them are given by God.
  • Psalm 29 offers peace at the end of a thunderstorm that breaks cedars and shakes a desert.
  • Philippians 4:7 has the peace of God guarding the heart and mind, and it follows prayer rather than replacing it.
  • Isaiah 40:30 grants that youths grow tired and young men stumble; the strength promised comes from hoping in the Lord.
  • 1 Peter 5:6-7 attaches casting your anxiety on God to humbling yourself under his hand.

Peace and strength arrive together in these passages, and both are described as things God gives rather than things a person works up. Psalm 29:11 puts them in one line: the Lord gives strength to his people and blesses them with peace. The verbs elsewhere are the same kind. God arms David with strength (Psalm 18:32), emboldens him (Psalm 138:3), and renews the strength of those who hope in him (Isaiah 40:31). The peace is offered with the trouble still…

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