John 16:33

Jesus promises his disciples peace in him amid the world's trouble, because he has overcome the world. This is the climactic encouragement of the upper-room discourse.

Cross-references · 40

• John 14:27Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
• 1 Jn 5:4For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.
• 2 Th 3:16Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.
• 1 Jn 4:4You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
• Phil 4:7And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.
• John 14:1“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
• 2 Tim 3:12Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.
• 1 Pet 5:9Withstand him steadfast in your faith, knowing that your brothers who are in the world are undergoing the same sufferings.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• John 15:18–21If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• Rom 8:36–37Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.”
• Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
• Heb 11:25choosing rather to share ill treatment with God’s people, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a time;
• Rev 7:14I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
• 1 Th 3:7for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.
• Rev 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
• Col 1:20and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.
• 2 Cor 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;
• Eph 2:14–17For he is our peace, who made both one, and broke down the middle wall of partition,
• 2 Cor 13:11Finally, brothers, rejoice. Be perfected, be comforted, be of the same mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
• Heb 13:20–21Now may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, our Lord Jesus,
• 1 Th 3:4For most certainly, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction, even as it happened, and you know.
• Ps 85:8–11I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, for he will speak peace to his people, his saints; but let them not turn again to folly.
• 2 Cor 7:4Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.
• Rom 5:1–2Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Isa 9:6–7For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Gal 6:14But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.
• Acts 27:25Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
• Mic 5:5He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land, and when he marches through our fortresses, then we will raise against him seven shepherds, and eight leaders of men.
• Ps 68:18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among men, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
• Gal 1:4who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father —
• John 12:31Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
• Luke 19:38saying, “Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!”
• Acts 9:31So the assemblies throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 27:22Now I exhort you to cheer up, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship.
• Luke 2:14“Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will toward men.”
• Acts 23:11The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”
• Heb 7:2to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, “king of righteousness”, and then also “king of Salem”, which means “king of peace”;
• John 16:11about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.
• 1 Sam 17:51–52Then David ran, stood over the Philistine, took his sword, drew it out of its sheath, killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

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