2Sa 7:1, Job 29:1-3, Isa 14:3-8, 26:3, 32:17, Joh 14:27, Rom 8:31-34 | ESV | STEP | Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies ,

2 Samuel 7:1

The Lord’s Covenant with David

1 ^aNow when the king lived in his house and the Lord ^bhad given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,

Job 29:1-3

Job’s Summary Defense

1 And Job again ^ctook up his discourse, and said:

2 “Oh, that I were as in the months of old,
as in the days when God watched over me,
3 when his ^dlamp shone upon my head,
and by his light I walked through darkness,

Isaiah 14:3-8

Israel’s Remnant Taunts Babylon

3 When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, 4 you will take up this ^etaunt against the king of Babylon:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
^fthe insolent fury ^{▼▼Dead Sea Scroll (compare Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate); the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain} ceased!
5 The Lord has broken the ^hstaff of the wicked,
the ⁱscepter of rulers,
6 ^jthat struck the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
^kthey break forth into singing.
8 ^l, ^mThe cypresses rejoice at you,
ⁿthe cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
no woodcutter comes up against us.’

Isaiah 26:3

3 ^oYou keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.

Isaiah 32:17

17 ^pAnd the effect of righteousness will be peace,
and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust ^{▼▼Or security} forever.

John 14:27

27 ^rPeace I leave with you; ^smy peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. ^tLet not your hearts be troubled, neither ^ulet them be afraid.

Romans 8:31-34

God’s Everlasting Love

31 What then shall we say to these things? ^vIf God is for us, who can be ^{▼▼Or who is} against us? 32 ^xHe who did not spare his own Son but ^ygave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? ^zIt is God who justifies. 34 ^aaWho is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— ^abwho is at the right hand of God, ^acwho indeed is interceding for us. ^{▼▼Or Is it Christ Jesus who died . . . for us?}