What is faith [footnote text=”The verses below are for illustrative purposes and are not limited to their respective categories. They may belong to more than one category because of overlap in meaning.”]
The state of believing an object of faith that is trustworthy, faithful, or reliable
After ascension (Acts 3:16; 20:21; 24:24; 26:18; Rom 3:22, 25-26; Gal 2:16, 20; 3:22, 26; Eph 1:15; 3:11-12; Phil 3:9; Col 1:4; 2:5; 1 Tim 1:14; 3:13; 2 Tim 1:13; 3:15; Phm 1:5; Heb 12:2; Jas 2:1; Rev 2:13; 14:12)
Faith in God (Mk 11:22; Col 2:12; 1 Thess 1:8; Heb 6:1; 1 Pet 1:21)
The state of being a subject of faith that is trustworthy, faithful, or reliable [footnote text=“The word "faithful" (πιστός) has been included in this category.”]
The faith of believers (Rom 1:8; Eph 1:15; Col 1:2-4; 2:5; 1 Thess 1:3, 8; 3:5-7; 2 Thess 1:3-4; 2 Tim 1:5; 3:10; Rev 2:19)
The faithfulness of God (Rom 3:3; 1 Cor 1:9; 10:13; 2 Cor 1:18; 1 Thess 5:23-24; 2 Tim 2:13; Heb 10:23; 11:11; 1 Jn 1:9; cf. Rev 3:14)
The faithfulness of Jesus/Christ [footnote text=“The phrase "faith of Jesus/Christ" can mean either "faith in Jesus/Christ" or "Jesus’/Christ’s faithfulness." Since this grammatical issue is a matter of long-standing debate, both categories have been included in this outline (although "faith in Christ" is the more traditional translation).”] (Rom 3:22, 26; Gal 2:16, 20; 3:22; Eph 3:11-12; Phil 3:9 [NET]; Heb 3:1-6; cf. Heb 2:17; Rev 1:5; 19:11-13)
The faithfulness of Paul (1 Cor 7:25; 1 Tim 1:12)
The fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22)
Faithful saints/brethren (Eph 1:1; Col 1:2; Rev 13:10; 14:12)
The faithfulness of the Lord (2 Thess 3:3)
A true or faithful saying (1 Tim 1:15; 3:1; 4:9; 2 Tim 2:11; Tit 3:8; Rev 21:5; 22:6)
The former faith or pledge of young widows (1 Tim 5:12)
Faithful men (2 Tim 2:2)
The keeping or preservation of one’s faith (2 Tim 4:7; Rev 14:12)
Faithful children (Tit 1:6)
The faithful word or message (Tit 1:9)
A faithful high priest (Heb 2:17)
The faithfulness of Moses (Heb 3:2-5)
A faithful Creator (1 Pet 4:19)
Faithful witnesses (Rev 1:5; 2:13; 3:14)
The commitment, piety, or devotion that comes with believing
Growing or increasing in faith (Lk 17:5; 2 Cor 10:15; 2 Thess 1:3; cf. Phil 1:25)
Finding faith on earth (Lk 18:8)
Praying that faith may not fail (Lk 22:32)
Being full of faith (Acts 6:5; 11:24)
Continuing in the faith (Acts 14:22; Col 1:23; 1 Tim 2:15)
Hearts cleansed by faith (Acts 15:8-9)
Being strengthened in the faith (Acts 16:5; Rom 4:20)
A good report of faith (Rom 1:8; Eph 1:15; Col 1:4; 2:5; 1 Thess 1:3, 8; 3:5-7; 2 Thess 1:3-4; 2 Tim 1:5; 3:10; Rev 2:19)
Being encouraged by each other’s faith (Rom 1:12)
The righteous shall live by faith (Rom 1:17; Gal 3:11; Heb 10:38-39)
Each one is apportioned a measure of faith (Rom 12:3, 6)
Standing firm in the faith (1 Cor 16:13; 2 Cor 1:24; Col 1:23; 2:5-7; 2 Thess 1:4; 1 Pet 5:9)
Excelling in faith (2 Cor 8:7)
Examining one’s faith (2 Cor 13:5)
Faith is greater than circumcision (Gal 5:6)
Progress and joy in the faith (Phil 1:25)
Exhorting in the faith (1 Thess 3:2; 2 Thess 1:11; 1 Tim 1:5)
Completing what is lacking in one’s faith (1 Thess 3:10)
Pursuing faith (1 Tim 6:11; 2 Tim 2:22)
Fighting the good fight of faith (1 Tim 6:12)
Keeping or preserving one’s faith (2 Tim 4:7; Rev 14:12)
Being sound in faith (Tit 1:13; 2:2)
Imitating those who are good examples in faith (Heb 6:12; 13:7)
Drawing near to God and seeking Him (Heb 11:6)
Testing of one’s faith (Heb 11:17; Jas 1:2-3; 1 Pet 1:7; Rev 2:10)
Faith accompanied by works (Jas 2:14-26)
Faith with virtue (2 Pet 1:5)
The foundation or collective body of doctrines, teachings, and beliefs
The obedience of faith (Acts 6:7; Rom 1:5; 16:26)
Departing from the faith (Acts 13:8; 1 Tim 4:1-3; 6:10, 20-21; cf. 1 Tim 1:19-20; 2 Tim 2:16-18)
A door of faith to the Gentiles (Acts 14:27)
Preaching the faith (Rom 10:8-18; Gal 1:23)
The words of faith (Rom 10:8; 1 Tim 4:6)
The household of faith (Gal 6:10)
One faith (Eph 4:5)
The unity of the faith (Eph 4:13)
The faith of the gospel (Phil 1:27)
Being established in the faith (Col 2:7)
The faith of the truth (2 Thess 2:13)
A true child in the faith (1 Tim 1:2)
Holding faith with a good conscience (1 Tim 1:19; 3:9)
A teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth (1 Tim 2:7)
Denying the faith (1 Tim 5:8; Rev 2:13)
Disqualified regarding the faith (2 Tim 3:8-9)
The faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth (Tit 1:1)
A common faith (Tit 1:4)
Loving in the faith (Tit 3:15)
A foundation of faith (Heb 6:1)
The faith that was once for all delivered (Jude 1:3)
Building oneself up in the faith (Jude 1:20)
The confidence or assurance of what is unseen
Acts 17:31 – because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”
The faith of Abraham (Rom 4:9-22; Heb 11:8-10, 12-19)
2 Cor 4:13 – Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
2 Cor 5:7 – for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Gal 5:5 – For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Jas 1:5-6 – “If any of you lacks wisdom… let him ask in faith, with no doubting”
Heb 4:2 – For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
Heb 10:22 – let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Heb 11:1 – Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
Heb 11:3 – By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.
Heb 11:6 – And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Heb 11:13-16 – “These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar… For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland… they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.”
Heb 11:27 – By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.
Who “believes”
We
Acts 11:17 – If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”
Acts 15:11 – But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”
Rom 4:24 – but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
Rom 6:8 – Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Rom 13:11 – Besides this you know the time, that the hour has come for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed.
2 Cor 4:13 – Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Heb 4:3 – For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,'”although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Eph 1:19 – and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
1 Thess 4:14 – For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
1 Jn 3:23 – And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
1 Jn 4:15 – Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.
1 Jn 4:16 – So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Many
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 4:39 – Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
Jn 7:31 – Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
Jn 8:30 – As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
Jn 10:42 – And many believed in him there.
Jn 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
Jn 12:11 – because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
Jn 12:42 – Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;
Jn 16:30 – Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”
Acts 4:4 – But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
Acts 9:42 – And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
Acts 17:12 – Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.
Acts 18:8 – Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
You (plural)
Jn 16:27 – for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
1 Cor 3:5 – What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
1 Cor 15:2 – and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you–unless you believed in vain.
1 Cor 15:11 – Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
Eph 1:13 – In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
1 Thess 2:10 – You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.
1 Thess 2:13 – And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
1 Pet 1:8 – Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
1 Pet 2:7 – So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
1 Jn 5:13 – I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
You (singular)
Jas 2:19 – You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe–and shudder!
Jesus’ disciples
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jn 2:22 – When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Jn 11:15 – and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”
Jn 16:27 – for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
Jn 16:30 – Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Abraham
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Rom 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
Gal 3:6 – just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”–and he was called a friend of God.
Samaritans
John 4:39 – Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
John 4:41 – And many more believed because of his word.
John 4:42 – They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Acts 8:12 – But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Corinthians
Acts 18:8 – Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
1 Cor 3:5 – What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
1 Cor 15:2 – and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you–unless you believed in vain.
1 Cor 15:11 – Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
Paul
Acts 24:14 – But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
2 Tim 1:12 – which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.
Acts 27:25 – So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.
1 Cor 11:18 – For, in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you. And I believe it in part,
Gentiles
Acts 13:48 – And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 21:25 – But as for the Gentiles who have believed, we have sent a letter with our judgment that they should abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.”
Ephesians
Acts 19:2 – And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
Eph 1:13 – In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Eph 1:19 – and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
Thessalonians
1 Thess 2:10 – You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers.
1 Thess 2:13 – And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
1 Thess 4:14 – For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
Little ones
Mt 18:6 – but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Mk 9:42 – “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
All
Jn 1:7 – He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Jn 11:48 – If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
The official
Jn 4:50 – Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.
Jn 4:53 – The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
The Jews
Jn 8:31 – So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
Acts 21:20 – And when they heard it, they glorified God. And they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed. They are all zealous for the law,
Centurian
Mt 8:13 – And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.
Blind men
Mt 9:28 – When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
Tax collectors and prostitutes
Mt 21:32 – For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
Mary
Lk 1:45 – And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”
Ones on the rock
Lk 8:13 – And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.
Nathanael
John 1:50 – Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
The official’s household
Jn 4:53 – The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
The Twelve
Jn 6:69 – and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Any of the authorities?
Jn 7:48 – Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
The man healed of blindness
John 9:38 – He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
Martha
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
Who?
Jn 12:38 – so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
The world
Jn 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
The other disciple
Jn 20:8 – Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
Simon
Acts 8:13 – Even Simon himself believed, and after being baptized he continued with Philip. And seeing signs and great miracles performed, he was amazed.
Sergius Paulus
Acts 13:12 – Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
Gentiles at Antioch in Pisidia
Acts 13:48 – And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
People of Iconium
Acts 14:1 – Now at Iconium they entered together into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.
Jailer
Acts 16:34 – Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.
Those who belonged to the party of the Pharisees
Acts 15:5 – But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”
Bereans
Acts 17:12 – Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.
Athenians
Acts 17:34 – But some men joined him and believed, among whom also were Dionysius the Areopagite and a woman named Damaris and others with them.
Crispus
Acts 18:8 – Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
Disciples in Achaia
Acts 18:27 – And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
Agrippa
Acts 26:27 – King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
Love
1 Cor 13:7 – Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Philippians
Phil 1:29 – For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,
Those in Macedonia and Achaia
1 Thess 1:7 – so that you became an example to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia.
Those who are perishing
2 Thess 2:11 – Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
Demons
Jas 2:19 – You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe–and shudder!
Who does not “believe”
The Jews
Jn 5:38 – and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
Jn 5:47 – But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
Jn 6:36 – But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
Jn 8:45 – But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Jn 9:18 – The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight
Jn 10:25 – Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name bear witness about me,
Jn 10:26 – but you do not believe because you are not part of my flock.
Chief priests, scribes, elders
Mt 21:25 – The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
Mt 21:32 – For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
Mt 27:42 – “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
Mk 11:31 – And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
Mk 15:32 – Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe.” Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
Lk 20:5 – And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
Lk 22:67 – “If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you will not believe,
People of Jesus’ hometown
Mt 13:57 – And they took offense at him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”
Mt 13:58 – And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.
Mk 6:3 – Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him.
Mk 6:4 – And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.”
Mk 6:5 – And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
Mk 6:6 – And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching
Disciples
Mk 16:11 – But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
Mk 16:13 – And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
Mk 16:14 – Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
Lk 24:11 – but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them.
Lk 24:41 – And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
Jn 14:10 – Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
The people
Jn 3:12 – If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
Jn 4:48 – So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
Jn 12:37 – Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
Zechariah
Lk 1:20 – And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”
Jesus
Jn 2:24 – But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
Some of Jesus’ disciples
Jn 6:64 – But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)
Jesus’ brothers
Jn 7:5 – For not even his brothers believed in him.
The world
Jn 16:9 – concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
Thomas
Jn 20:25 – So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”
Disciples in Jerusalem
Acts 9:26 – And when he had come to Jerusalem, he attempted to join the disciples. And they were all afraid of him, for they did not believe that he was a disciple.
Scoffers
Acts 13:41 – “‘Look, you scoffers, be astounded and perish; for I am doing a work in your days, a work that you will not believe, even if one tells it to you.'”
Some of the leaders of the Jews
Acts 28:24 – And some were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved.
Some (people)
Rom 3:3 – What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
Saul
1 Tim 1:13 – though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
People saved out of Egypt
Jude 1:5 – Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Being entrusted
Rom 3:2 – Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
1 Cor 9:17 – For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.
Gal 2:7 – On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised
1 Thess 2:4 – but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
1 Tim 1:11 – in accordance with the glorious gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.
Tit 1:3 – and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;
Object of faith
Jesus Christ
Mt 18:6 – but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Mt 27:42 – “He saved others; he cannot save himself. He is the King of Israel; let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him.
Mk 9:42 – “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea.
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jn 2:24 – But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people
Jn 3:15 – that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Jn 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Jn 4:21 – Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
Jn 4:39 – Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
Jn 5:38 – and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent.
Jn 5:46 – If you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
Jn 6:29 – Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
Jn 6:30 – So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
Jn 6:35 – Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Jn 7:5 – For not even his brothers believed in him.
Jn 7:31 – Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
Jn 7:38 – Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'”
Jn 7:39 – Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Jn 7:48 – Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?
Jn 8:30 – As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
Jn 8:31 – So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
Jn 8:45 – But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me.
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Jn 9:35 – Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
Jn 9:36 – He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
Jn 10:37 – If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me;
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Jn 10:42 – And many believed in him there.
Jn 11:25 – Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Jn 11:26 – and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Jn 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
Jn 11:48 – If we let him go on like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
Jn 12:11 – because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
Jn 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Jn 12:37 – Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
Jn 12:42 – Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;
John 12:44 – And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Jn 14:1 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Jn 14:12 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Jn 16:9 – concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
Jn 17:20 – “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
Acts 9:42 – And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
Acts 10:43 – To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Acts 11:17 – If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”
Acts 11:21 – And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.
Acts 14:23 – And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
Acts 16:31 – And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Acts 18:8 – Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
Acts 19:4 – And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.”
Acts 20:21 – testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Acts 22:19 – And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.
Acts 24:24 – After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
Acts 26:18 – to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Rom 3:22 – the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 9:33 – as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Rom 10:11 – For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Eph 1:15 – For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Gal 3:22 – But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Eph 1:13 – In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Eph 3:11 – This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Eph 3:12 – in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
Col 1:4 – since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
Col 2:5 – For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Phil 1:29 – For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,
Phil 3:9 – and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–
1 Tim 1:14 – and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
1 Tim 1:16 – But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
1 Tim 3:13 – For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
2 Tim 1:12 – which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.
2 Tim 1:13 – Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 3:15 – and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Phm 1:5 – because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
Heb 12:2 – looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Jas 2:1 – My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
1 Pet 1:8 – Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
1 Pet 2:6 – For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
1 Jn 5:10 – Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
Rev 2:13 – “‘I know where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. Yet you hold fast my name, and you did not deny my faith even in the days of Antipas my faithful witness, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
Rev 14:12 – Here is a call for the endurance of the saints, those who keep the commandments of God and their faith in Jesus.
Jesus’ name
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Acts 3:16 – And his name–by faith in his name–has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
1 Jn 3:23 – And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
1 Jn 5:13 – I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
Jesus’ word, λόγος
Jn 2:22 – When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Jn 4:50 – Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.
Jesus’ word, ῥῆμα
John 5:47 – But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
Jesus’ works
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Jesus’ blood
Rom 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
God the Father
Mk 11:22 – And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
John 6:29 – Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
Jn 12:44 – And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me.
Jn 14:1 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Acts 16:34 – Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.
Acts 27:25 – So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told.
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 4:17 – as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”–in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
Rom 4:24 – but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
Rom 9:33 – as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Rom 10:11 – For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Gal 3:6 – just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”?
1 Thess 1:8 – For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything.
Tit 3:8 – The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people.
Heb 6:1 – Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”–and he was called a friend of God.
1 Pet 1:21 – who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
1 Pet 2:6 – For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
1 Jn 5:10 – Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has borne concerning his Son.
Gospel
Mk 1:15 – and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Mk 16:15 – And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.
Mk 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
2 Cor 4:4 – In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Gal 2:7 – On the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised
Phil 1:27 – Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
1 Thess 2:4 – but just as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please God who tests our hearts.
John the Baptist
Mt 21:25 – The baptism of John, from where did it come? From heaven or from man?” And they discussed it among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say to us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
Mt 21:32 – For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.
Mk 11:31 – And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
Lk 20:5 – And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’
Disciples
Mk 16:13 – And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them.
Mk 16:14 – Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
What was heard
Jn 12:38 – so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
Rom 10:16 – But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”
Truth
2 Thess 2:12 – in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Thess 2:13 – But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
Words of Gabriel
Lk 1:20 – And behold, you will be silent and unable to speak until the day that these things take place, because you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time.”
All that the prophets have spoken
Lk 24:25 – And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Scripture
Jn 2:22 – When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.
Moses
Jn 5:46 – If you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.
Writings
Jn 5:47 – But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
The light
Jn 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Philip
Acts 8:12 – But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets
Acts 24:14 – But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
Prophets
Acts 26:27 – King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
Power of God
1 Cor 2:5 – that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
All things
1 Cor 13:7 – Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Working of God
Col 2:12 – having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Testimony
2 Thess 1:10 – when he comes on that day to be glorified in his saints, and to be marveled at among all who have believed, because our testimony to you was believed.
Lie
2 Thess 2:11 – Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false,
Spirit
1 Jn 4:1 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Love
1 Jn 4:16 – So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Object of “entrust”
True riches
Lk 16:11 – If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches?
Believers
Acts 14:23 – And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting they committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
Oracles of God
Rom 3:2 – Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
Stewardship
1 Cor 9:17 – For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.
Content of “believe”
Pertaining to Jesus
That Jesus is able
Mt 8:13 – And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.
Mt 9:28 – When he entered the house, the blind men came to him, and Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord.”
Mk 9:23 – And Jesus said to him, “If you can! All things are possible for one who believes.”
Mk 9:24 – Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
Jesus is alive
Mk 16:11 – But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it.
Lk 24:41 – And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?”
Jn 20:25 – So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord.” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and place my finger into the mark of the nails, and place my hand into his side, I will never believe.”
Jn 20:27 – Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”
Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, “Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world.”
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
1 Jn 5:1 – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
1 Jn 5:5 – Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
The Father sent Jesus
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Jn 17:21 – that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
Jn 11:42 – I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
Jesus is “I AM”
Jn 8:24 – I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Jn 13:19 – I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.
Jesus is in the Father and the Father is in Him
Jn 14:10 – Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
Jn 14:11 – Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Jesus came from God
Jn 16:27 – for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
Jn 16:30 – Now we know that you know all things and do not need anyone to question you; this is why we believe that you came from God.”
Jesus died and rose again
1 Thess 4:14 – For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
Jesus is the Holy One of God
Jn 6:69 – and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
About Jesus
Acts 28:23 – When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.
Acts 28:24 – And some were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved.
Pertaining to God
Acts 26:8 – Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?
Rom 4:20 – No distrust made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
Rom 4:21 – fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.
Heb 11:6 – And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Jas 2:19 – You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe–and shudder!
Pertaining to Jesus and the Father
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Jn 14:10 – Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
Jn 14:11 – Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Rom 10:9 – because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
That we will receive what we ask
Mt 21:22 – And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Mk 11:23 – Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Mk 11:24 – Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Pertaining to other things
Jn 9:18 – The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight
Acts 15:11 – But we believe that we will be saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they will.”
Acts 28:23 – When they had appointed a day for him, they came to him at his lodging in greater numbers. From morning till evening he expounded to them, testifying to the kingdom of God and trying to convince them about Jesus both from the Law of Moses and from the Prophets.
Acts 28:24 – And some were convinced by what he said, but others disbelieved.
Rom 6:8 – Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Rom 14:2 – One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.
2 Cor 4:13 – Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
2 Cor 4:14 – knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
Outcome of faith
Life
Have eternal life
Jn 3:15 – that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.
Jn 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Jn 6:47 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Acts 13:48 – And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
1 Tim 1:16 – But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
1 Jn 5:13 – I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.
Not perish
Jn 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Live
Jn 11:25 – Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live,
Never die
Jn 11:26 – and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Life in Jesus’ name
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Salvation
Mt 9:22 – Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.
Mk 10:52 – And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.
Mk 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Lk 7:50 – And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
Lk 8:12 – The ones along the path are those who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
Lk 8:48 – And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
Lk 17:19 – And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”
Lk 18:42 – And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.”
Acts 16:31 – And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
Rom 1:16 – For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Rom 10:9 – because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
1 Cor 1:21 – For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
Eph 2:8 – For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
Heb 11:31 – By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
1 Pet 1:5 – who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 Pet 1:9 – obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
Righteousness
Rom 1:17 – For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Rom 3:21 – But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it–
Rom 3:22 – the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Rom 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 4:24 – but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Rom 9:32 – Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Rom 10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Phil 3:9 – and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–
Heb 11:4 – By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Rom 10:6 – But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?'” (that is, to bring Christ down)
Rom 10:8 – But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);
Healing
Mt 8:13 – And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed at that very moment.
Mt 9:22 – Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.
Mt 9:29 – Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”
Mt 9:30 – And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, “See that no one knows about it.”
Mk 5:34 – And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”
Mk 10:52 – And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.
Lk 7:50 – And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
Lk 8:48 – And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
Lk 17:19 – And he said to him, “Rise and go your way; your faith has made you well.”
Lk 18:42 – And Jesus said to him, “Recover your sight; your faith has made you well.”
Acts 3:16 – And his name–by faith in his name–has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
Be justified
Acts 13:39 – and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 3:27 – Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith.
Rom 3:28 – For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 5:1 – Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 10:10 – For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.”
Gal 3:24 – So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
Receive the Spirit
Jn 7:38 – Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ”
Jn 7:39 – Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Acts 15:8 – And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them, by giving them the Holy Spirit just as he did to us,
Acts 15:9 – and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Gal 3:2 – Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
Gal 3:5 – Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith–
Gal 3:14 – so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Eph 1:13 – In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Forgiveness of sins
Mt 9:2 – And behold, some people brought to him a paralytic, lying on a bed. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Take heart, my son; your sins are forgiven.”
Mk 2:5 – And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “My son, your sins are forgiven.”
Lk 5:20 – And when he saw their faith, he said, “Man, your sins are forgiven you.”
Acts 10:43 – To him all the prophets bear witness that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
Jas 5:15 – And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Do the impossible
Mt 17:20 – He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Mt 21:21 – And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
Lk 17:6 – And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.
1 Cor 13:2 – And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Grace
Rom 4:16 – That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring–not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Rom 5:2 – Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Eph 2:8 – For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
1 Tim 1:14 – and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
Receive what is asked for in prayer
Mt 21:22 – And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Mk 11:23 – Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.
Mk 11:24 – Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Not be put to shame
Rom 9:33 – as it is written, “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Rom 10:11 – For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
1 Pet 2:6 – For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
Obtain promises
Gal 3:22 – But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Heb 6:12 – so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Heb 11:33 – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Commended
Heb 11:4 – By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Heb 11:5 – By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God.
Heb 11:39 – And all these, though commended through their faith, did not receive what was promised,
Signs will accompany them
Mk 16:17 – And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;
Mk 16:18 – they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
Not be condemned
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Become children of God
Jn 1:12 – But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,
Gal 3:26 – for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Be encouraged/comforted
Rom 1:12 – that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.
1 Thess 3:5 – For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain.
1 Thess 3:6 – But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you–
1 Thess 3:7 – for this reason, brothers, in all our distress and affliction we have been comforted about you through your faith
Protected
1 Pet 1:5 – who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Heb 11:28 – By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.
Heb 11:29 – By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as if on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned.
Confidence
Eph 3:12 – in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.
1 Tim 3:13 – For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
Rejoice
Phil 2:17 – Even if I am to be poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrificial offering of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with you all.
Col 2:5 – For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Overcome
1 Jn 5:4 – For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world–our faith.
Rev 17:14 – They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”
Not hunger or thirst
Jn 6:35 – Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
See the glory of God
John 11:40 – Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”
Become sons of light
Jn 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Not remain in darkness
Jn 12:46 – I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.
Do Jesus’ works and even greater works
Jn 14:12 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Added to the Lord
Acts 5:14 – And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,
Heart cleansed
Acts 15:9 – and he made no distinction between us and them, having cleansed their hearts by faith.
Increase in number
Acts 16:5 – So the churches were strengthened in the faith, and they increased in numbers daily.
Imprisoned and beaten
Acts 22:19 – And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.
Be sanctified
Acts 26:18 – to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
Filled with joy and peace
Rom 15:13 – May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
Be son of Abraham
Gal 3:7 – Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
Blessed
Gal 3:9 – So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Promise by faith in Jesus Christ
Gal 3:22 – But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Great power
Eph 1:19 – and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
Extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one
Eph 6:16 – In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;
Christ dwell in our hearts
Eph 3:17 – so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith–that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Suffer
Phil 1:29 – For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,
Raised with Christ
Col 2:12 – having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.
Word of God at work
1 Thess 2:13 – And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
Saved through childbearing
1 Tim 2:15 – Yet she will be saved through childbearing–if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
Enter rest
Heb 4:3 – For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, ‘They shall not enter my rest,'”although his works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Preservation of the soul
Heb 10:39 – But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Receive the power to conceive
Heb 11:11 – By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.
Conquer kingdoms
Heb 11:33 – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Enforce justice
Heb 11:33 – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Obtain promises
Heb 11:33 – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Stop the mouths of lions
Heb 11:33 – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Quench the power of fire
Heb 11:34 – quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
Escape the edge of the sword
Heb 11:34 – quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
Made strong out of weakness
Heb 11:34 – quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
Become mighty in war
Heb 11:34 – quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
Put foreign armies to flight
Heb 11:34 – quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
Receive back the dead
Heb 11:35 – Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release, so that they might rise again to a better life.
Walls fell down
Heb 11:30 – By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
Produce steadfastness
Jas 1:3 – for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.
Be heirs of the kingdom
Jas 2:5 – Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?
Praise and glory and honor
1 Pet 1:7 – so that the tested genuineness of your faith–more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire–may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Born of God
1 Jn 5:1 – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
Outcome of unbelief
Jesus did not do many mighty works
Mt 13:58 – And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.
Mk 6:5 – And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.
Mk 6:6 – And he marveled because of their unbelief.And he went about among the villages teaching.
Condemned
Mark 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Jn 3:18 – Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Severe beating
Lk 12:46 – the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.
Lk 12:47 – And that servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.
Not see life; God’s wrath
Jn 3:36 – Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.
Die in sin
John 8:24 – I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Broken off
Rom 11:20 – That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but stand in awe.
Act ignorantly
1 Tim 1:13 – though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,
Minds and consciences defiled
Tit 1:15 – To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Fall away from the living God
Heb 3:12 – Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Unable to enter the rest
Heb 3:19 – So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Not benefited by the message
Heb 4:2 – For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
Stumble
1 Pet 2:7 – So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
1 Pet 2:8 – and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.”They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
Destroyed
Jude 1:5 – Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Second death
Revelation 21:8 – But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Little faith
Mt 6:30 – But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Mt 8:26 – And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
Mt 14:31 – Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
Mt 16:8 – But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?
Mt 17:20 – He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Lk 12:28 – But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!
Exhortation concerning faith
Mt 6:30 – But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
Mt 17:20 – He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
Mk 1:15 – and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”
Mk 5:36 – But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
Mk 11:22 – And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
Mk 11:24 – Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Lk 8:50 – But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.”
Lk 12:28 – But if God so clothes the grass, which is alive in the field today, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith!
Jn 4:21 – Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Jn 12:36 – While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.”When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them.
Jn 14:1 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.
Jn 14:11 – Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Jn 20:27 – Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”
Acts 14:22 – strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
Acts 16:31 – And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
1 Cor 16:13 – Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
2 Cor 5:7 – for we walk by faith, not by sight.
Gal 6:10 – So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Col 1:23 – if indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.
Col 2:7 – rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
2 Thess 1:11 – To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,
1 Tim 1:5 – The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
1 Tim 1:18-19 – “This charge I entrust to you… that by them you may wage the good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,”
1 Tim 4:12 – Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Tim 6:11-12 – “Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith.”
2 Tim 2:22 – So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
Heb 10:39 – But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Heb 13:7 – Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
1 Pet 5:9 – Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.
2 Pet 1:5 – For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
Jude 1:3 – Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
Jude 1:20 – But you, beloved, build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;
Rev 2:10 – Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Command/exhortation to not believe
Mt 24:23 – Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.
Mt 24:26 – So, if they say to you, ‘Look, he is in the wilderness,’ do not go out. If they say, ‘Look, he is in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
Mk 13:21 – And then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘Look, there he is!’ do not believe it.
1 Jn 4:1 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
Characteristics of faith
Faith is great even when it is as small as a grain of mustard seed (Mt 17:20; Lk 17:6)
Faith can grow or increase (Lk 17:5; 2 Cor 10:15; 2 Thess 1:3; cf. Phil 1:25)
Faith can fail (Lk 22:32)
Faith can be strengthened (Acts 16:5; Rom 4:20; cf. Lk 22:32; Acts 14:22; 1 Thess 3:2)
Faith can encourage or comfort others (Rom 1:12; 1 Thess 3:5-7)
Faith can be weakened (Rom 4:19; 14:1)
Faith is apportioned to each one in different measures (Rom 12:3, 6)
Faith is a gift [footnote text=“In the context of this verse, Paul speaks of special gifts which not all believers have. Therefore, this is not referring to the general faith of all believers, but a special gift of faith.”] (1 Cor 12:9; cf. 1 Cor 13:2)
Faith is steadfast or firm (1 Cor 16:13; 2 Cor 1:24; Col 1:23; 2:5-7; 2 Thess 1:4; 1 Pet 5:9)
Faith can be excelled in (2 Cor 8:7)
Faith is united (Eph 4:13; Phil 1:27; Heb 4:2)
Faith is a source of rejoicing (Phil 2:17; Col 2:5)
Faith can be lacking (1 Thess 3:10)
Faith is genuine, sincere, without pretense or hypocrisy (1 Tim 1:5; 2 Tim 1:5; 1 Pet 1:7)
Faith can imitate after good examples (Heb 6:12; 13:7)
Faith is full of assurance or certainty (Heb 10:22; 11:1)
Faith speaks though one has died (Heb 11:4)
Faith can be tested (Heb 11:17; Jas 1:2-3; 1 Pet 1:7; Rev 2:10)
Faith can be rich (Jas 2:5)
Faith is more precious than gold (1 Pet 1:7)
Faith can be compared in value (2 Pet 1:1)
Faith can be supplemented with other qualities (2 Pet 1:5-8)
Faith is victorious (1 Jn 5:4)
Faith is holy (Jude 1:20)
Characteristics of faithful ones
They do their master’s will at all times (Mt 24:45-47; Lk 12:42-44)
They are faithful over a little (Mt 25:15-23; Lk 16:10-12; 19:13-19)
They are also faithful over much (Lk 16:10-12)
They are able to teach others (2 Tim 2:2)
They show love even to strangers (3 Jn 1:5-6)
They are called and chosen and faithful (Rev 17:14)
Characteristics of unbelieving ones
Nothing is pure to them (Tit 1:15-16)
They profess to know God but deny Him by their works (Tit 1:15-16)
Thank God (Lk 17:16-19; Col 2:7; 2 Thess 1:3-4; 2:13)
Glorify God (Lk 17:15-19; 18:42-43; Rom 4:20)
Worship (Jn 9:38; Acts 24:14)
Fellowship (Acts 2:44; 4:32)
Turn to the Lord (Acts 11:21)
Confess (Acts 19:18; Rom 10:9)
Repent (Acts 20:21; Heb 6:1; cf. Lk 7:44-50; Acts 26:18)
Live (Rom 1:17; Gal 2:20; 3:11; Heb 10:38-39; 11:9-10)
Obey (Rom 10:16; Heb 11:8, 28-30; cf. Acts 6:7; Rom 1:5; 16:26)
Do not be proud, but fear (Rom 11:20-21)
Think with sober judgment (Rom 12:3)
Do not pass judgment (Rom 14:1-23)
Be watchful (1 Cor 16:13)
Stand firm (1 Cor 16:13; 2 Cor 1:24; Col 1:23; 2:5-7; 2 Thess 1:4; 1 Pet 5:9)
Be courageous (1 Cor 16:13)
Be strong (1 Cor 16:13)
Be fellow workers (2 Cor 1:24)
Speak (2 Cor 4:13)
Endure persecutions and afflictions (2 Thess 1:4; Heb 11:27; cf. Heb 12:2; Rev 2:19; 13:10; 14:12)
Provide for one’s own relatives (1 Tim 5:8)
Suffer (2 Tim 1:12)
Know the Holy Scriptures (2 Tim 3:14-17)
Fight or struggle (2 Tim 4:7)
Finish or complete (2 Tim 4:7)
Keep or preserve (2 Tim 4:7; Rev 14:12)
Share or have fellowship (Phm 1:5-6)
Draw near with a true heart (Heb 10:22)
Offer (Heb 11:4, 17)
Move with godly fear (Heb 11:7)
Bless concerning the future (Heb 11:20-21)
Mention concerning the future (Heb 11:22)
Be unafraid (Heb 11:23, 27)
Be willing to suffer (Heb 11:24-26; 36-37; cf. 1 Pet 4:19)
Leave or forsake (Heb 11:27)
Keep the commands of God (Heb 11:28)
Cross over (Heb 11:29)
Receive those in need (Heb 11:31)
Be willing to die (Heb 11:35-37; Rev 2:13)
Show no partiality (Jas 2:1-9)
Rejoice (1 Pet 1:8)
Overcome (1 Jn 5:5)
Contend (Jude 1:3)
Build oneself up (Jude 1:20)
Faith as a result of
Words
Lk 8:12 – The ones along the path are those who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
Jn 4:41 – And many more believed because of his word.
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Jn 8:30 – As he was saying these things, many believed in him.
Jn 11:42 – I knew that you always hear me, but I said this on account of the people standing around, that they may believe that you sent me.”
Jn 13:19 – I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.
Jn 14:29 – And now I have told you before it takes place, so that when it does take place you may believe.
Jn 17:20 – “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word,
Acts 4:4 – But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 17:11 – Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
Acts 17:12 – Many of them therefore believed, with not a few Greek women of high standing as well as men.
Rom 10:17 – So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Eph 1:13 – In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
1 Thess 2:13 – And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
Hearing
Lk 8:12 – The ones along the path are those who have heard. Then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved.
Jn 4:42 – They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Jn 5:24 – Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.
Acts 4:4 – But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
Acts 15:7 – And after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe.
Acts 18:8 – Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord, together with his entire household. And many of the Corinthians hearing Paul believed and were baptized.
Rom 10:14 – But how are they to call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
Rom 10:17 – So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Eph 1:13 – In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
1 Thess 2:13 – And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
Seeing
Jn 1:50 – Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 6:40 – For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
Jn 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
Jn 20:8 – Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed;
Jn 20:29 – Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Acts 13:12 – Then the proconsul believed, when he saw what had occurred, for he was astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
Signs
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 4:53 – The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household.
Jn 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
Jn 12:11 – because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
Testimony
Jn 1:7 – He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him.
Jn 4:39 – Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”
Jn 19:35 – He who saw it has borne witness—his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth—that you also may believe.
Works
John 14:11 – Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves.
Grace
Acts 18:27 – And when he wished to cross to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he greatly helped those who through grace had believed,
Ministers
1 Cor 3:5 – What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
Preaching
1 Cor 15:11 – Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
The basis of faith
The resurrection of Christ (Acts 17:31; 1 Cor 15:14, 17)
Hearing the word of Christ (Rom 10:17-18)
Not in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God (1 Cor 2:5; 2 Thess 1:11)
There is one faith (Eph 4:5)
Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith (Heb 12:2)
Good examples of faith
The centurion (Mt 8:5-13; Lk 7:2-10)
The people who brought a paralytic to Jesus (Mt 9:2-7; Mk 2:3-5; Lk 5:18-20)
The woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years (Mt 9:20-22; Mk 5:25-34; Lk 8:43-48)
The two blind men (Mt 9:27-31; cf. Mt 20:30-34)
The Canaanite woman (Mt 15:22-28)
Bartimaeus (Mk 10:46-52; Lk 18:35-43)
The woman with many sins (Lk 7:44-50)
The leper who returned (Lk 17:12-19)
Stephen (Acts 6:5)
Barnabas (Acts 11:22-24)
The crippled man in Lystra (Acts 14:8-9)
Lydia (Acts 16:14-15)
Abraham (Rom 4:9-22; Gal 3:7-9; Heb 11:8-10, 12-19)
The believers (Rom 1:8; Eph 1:15; Col 1:2-4; 2:5; 1 Thess 1:3; 3:5-7; 2 Thess 1:3-4)
Timothy (1 Cor 4:17; 1 Tim 1:2; 4:12; 2 Tim 1:5; 2 Tim 3:10)
Tychicus (Eph 6:21; Col 4:7)
Epaphras (Col 1:7)
Onesimus (Col 4:9)
Paul (1 Tim 1:12; 2 Tim 3:10)
Lois, Eunice, and Timothy (2 Tim 1:5)
God’s elect (Tit 1:1)
Titus (Tit 1:4)
Philemon (Phm 1:5-6)
Abel (Heb 11:4)
Enoch (Heb 11:5)
Noah (Heb 11:7)
Sarah (Heb 11:11, 13)
Isaac (Heb 11:20)
Jacob (Heb 11:21)
Joseph (Heb 11:22)
Moses (Heb 11:23-28; cf. Heb 3:2-5)
The Israelites (Heb 11:29-30)
Rahab (Heb 11:31)
Gideon (Heb 11:32-34)
Barak (Heb 11:32-34)
Samson (Heb 11:32-34)
Jephthah (Heb 11:32-34)
David (Heb 11:32-34)
Samuel (Heb 11:32-34)
The prophets (Heb 11:32-34)
Silvanus (1 Pet 5:12)
Gaius (3 Jn 1:5)
The church in Pergamos/Pergamum (Rev 2:12-13)
Antipas (Rev 2:13)
The church in Thyatira (Rev 2:18-19)
The saints (Rev 13:10; 14:12)
Bad examples of faith
Hymenaeus (1 Tim 1:19-20; 2 Tim 2:17-18)
Alexander (1 Tim 1:19-20)
Jannes (2 Tim 3:8-9)
Jambres (2 Tim 3:8-9)
Unbelievers, unfaithful
Mt 17:17 – And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
Mk 9:19 – And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”
Lk 9:41 – Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
Lk 12:46 – the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.
Jn 20:27 – Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”
Acts 26:8 – Why is it thought incredible by any of you that God raises the dead?
1 Cor 6:6 – but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
1 Cor 7:12 – To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
1 Cor 7:13 – If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.
1 Cor 7:14 – For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
1 Cor 7:15 – But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
1 Cor 10:27 – If one of the unbelievers invites you to dinner and you are disposed to go, eat whatever is set before you without raising any question on the ground of conscience.
1 Cor 14:22 – Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.
1 Cor 14:23 – If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are out of your minds?
1 Cor 14:24 – But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all,
2 Cor 4:4 – In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2 Cor 6:14 – Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 Cor 6:15 – What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
1 Tim 5:8 – But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Tit 1:15 – To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
Rev 21:8 – But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
He forgave sins (Mt 9:2-6; Mk 2:5-10; Lk 5:20-24; 7:47-50)
He told them to have courage (Mt 9:2, 22)
He had compassion (cf. Mt 20:34)
He told them to go in peace (Mk 5:34; Lk 7:50; 8:48)
He wanted to know who touched Him (Mk 5:30-34; Lk 8:45-48)
He stood still (Mk 10:49; Lk 18:40)
He asked, “What do you want me to do for you?” (Mk 10:51; Lk 18:41; cf. Mt 20:32)
Jesus’ response to unbelief
He asked, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you?” (Mt 17:17; Mk 9:19; Lk 9:41)
He marveled (Mk 6:6)
He rebuked (Mk 16:14)
He told Thomas to touch His hands and His side (Jn 20:25-29)
Prayer concerning faith
Mk 9:24 – Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
Lk 17:5 – The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
Lk 22:32 – but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.”
2 Thess 1:11 – To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,
2 Thess 3:1-2 – “Finally, brothers, pray for us… that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith.”
Phm 1:6 – and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.
Prayer with faith
Mt 21:22 – And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Mk 9:24 – Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
Mk 11:24 – Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Jas 1:5-6 – “If any of you lacks wisdom… let him ask in faith, with no doubting”
Jas 5:15 – And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Faith and knowing
Jn 4:42 – They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
Jn 6:69 – and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.”
Jn 10:38 – but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.”
Jn 17:8 – For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.
Rom 6:8 – Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Rom 6:9 – We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
2 Cor 4:13 – Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
2 Cor 4:14 – knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
1 Jn 4:16 – So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
Faith and signs
John 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
John 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
John 4:48 – So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
John 6:30 – So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
John 7:31 – Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
John 11:45 – Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him,
John 12:11 – because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.
John 12:37 – Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
Faith and love
1 Cor 13:2 – And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Cor 13:13 – So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Gal 5:6 – For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Eph 1:15 – For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints,
Eph 3:17-19 – “so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may… know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge”
Eph 6:23 – Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Col 1:4 – since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
1 Thess 1:3 – remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thess 5:8 – But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
1 Tim 1:5 – The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
1 Tim 1:14 – and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
1 Tim 2:15 – Yet she will be saved through childbearing–if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.
1 Tim 4:12 – Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
1 Tim 6:11 – But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.
2 Tim 1:13 – Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 2:22 – So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
2 Tim 3:10 – You, however, have followed my teaching, my conduct, my aim in life, my faith, my patience, my love, my steadfastness,
Tit 2:2 – Older men are to be sober-minded, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, and in steadfastness.
Tit 3:15 – All who are with me send greetings to you. Greet those who love us in the faith.Grace be with you all.
Phm 1:5 – because I hear of your love and of the faith that you have toward the Lord Jesus and all the saints,
Rev 2:19 – “‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.
Faith and works
Jas 2:14 – What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?
Jas 2:17 – So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Jas 2:18 – But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.
Jas 2:20 – Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?
Jas 2:22 – You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;
Jas 2:24 – You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Jas 2:26 – For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.
Faith and the law
Mt 23:23 – “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Rom 3:27-28 – “Then what becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? By a law of works? No, but by the law of faith. For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.”
Rom 3:31 – Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
Rom 4:13-14 – “For the promise to Abraham… did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void.”
Rom 4:16 – That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring–not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:2 – Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith?
Gal 3:5 – Does he who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you do so by works of the law, or by hearing with faith–
Gal 3:11-12 – “Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for ‘The righteous shall live by faith.’ But the law is not of faith, rather ‘The one who does them shall live by them.’”
Gal 3:23-24 – “Now before faith came, we were held captive under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith would be revealed. So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.”
Phil 3:9 – and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–
Faith and righteousness
Rom 1:17 – For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Rom 3:21-22 – “But now the righteousness of God has been manifested… the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe”
Rom 3:25-26 – “whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness… It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.”
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Rom 10:6-7 – “But the righteousness based on faith says, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down) or ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Gal 5:5 – For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Phil 3:9 – and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–
Heb 10:38 – but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”
Heb 11:4 – By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
2 Pet 1:1 – Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
Faith and fear
Matthew 8:26 – And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.Mark 5:36 – But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.”
Mark 4:40 – He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”
Luke 8:25 – He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and they marveled, saying to one another, “Who then is this, that he commands even winds and water, and they obey him?”
Luke 8:50 – But Jesus on hearing this answered him, “Do not fear; only believe, and she will be well.”
Hebrews 11:23 – By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict.
Hebrews 11:40 – since God had provided something better for us, that apart from us they should not be made perfect.
Revelation 2:10 – Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Revelation 21:8 – But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Faith and obedience
Acts 6:7 – And the word of God continued to increase, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests became obedient to the faith.
Rom 1:5 – through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,
Rom 16:26 – but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
Heb 11:8 – By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.
Unbelief and disobedience
Rom 10:16 – But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?”
Heb 3:18 – And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?
Heb 3:19 – So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
Heb 11:31 – By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.
1 Pet 2:7 – So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
1 Pet 2:8 – and “A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.”They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
Challenges to faith
Anxiety or worry (Mt 6:25-31; Lk 12:22-29)
Being of little faith (Mt 6:30; 8:26; 14:31; 16:8; 17:20; Lk 12:28)
Fear (Mt 8:24-26; 14:29-32; Mk 4:37-41; Lk 8:23-25)
Unbelief (Mt 13:58; Mk 6:6; 9:24; 16:14; Rom 3:3; 4:20; 11:20, 23; 1 Tim 1:13; Heb 3:7-19)
Doubt (Mt 14:29-32; Rom 4:20; 14:22-23; cf. Mt 21:21; Jas 1:6)
Lack of understanding (Mt 16:5-12)
Having no faith (Mk 4:40; Lk 8:25)
Opposition (Acts 13:8; cf. 2 Thess 3:1-3)
Physical limitations (Rom 4:19)
Not having love (1 Cor 13:2)
The tempter (1 Thess 3:5; cf. 2 Thess 3:3; 1 Pet 5:9)
False doctrines (1 Tim 1:3-5; 4:1-3; 6:20-21; 2 Tim 2:16-18)
Rejecting faith and a good conscience (1 Tim 1:18-20)
Giving heed to deceitful spirits (1 Tim 4:1)
Not providing for one’s own relatives (1 Tim 5:8)
The love of money (1 Tim 6:9-10)
Shrinking back to destruction (Heb 10:38-39)
Trials and testing (Heb 11:17; Jas 1:2-3; 1 Pet 1:7; Rev 2:10)
Not having works (Jas 2:14-26)
Questions about “believing”
Do you “believe”?
Jn 1:50 – Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.”
Jn 9:35 – Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
Jn 11:26 – and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
Jn 16:31 – Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
Why do you not “believe”?
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Do you not “believe”?
Jn 14:10 – Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.
Reasons for “believing”
Doing what is true
Jn 3:21 – But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God.”
Given to Jesus by the Father
Jn 6:37 – All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
Jn 6:39 – And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
Jn 6:65 – And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”
Drawn by the Father
Jn 6:44 – No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
Being Jesus’ sheep
Jn 10:27 – My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Jn 10:28 – I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Jn 10:29 – My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.
Reason for not “believing”
Deeds are evil
Jn 3:19 – And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.
Jn 3:20 – For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
Seeking glory from men rather than from God
Jn 5:44 – How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Jn 12:42 – Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;
Jn 12:43 – for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.
Not seeing signs and wonders
Jn 4:48 – So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
Will to do the devil’s desires
Jn 8:44 – You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
Not of God
Jn 8:46 – Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
Jn 8:47 – Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
Not being among Jesus’ sheep
Jn 10:26 – but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep.
Fulfillment of prophecy
John 12:38 – so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled: “Lord, who has believed what he heard from us, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
John 12:39 – Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,
Without cause
Jn 15:22 – If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
Jn 15:23 – Whoever hates me hates my Father also.
Jn 15:24 – If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin, but now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.
Jn 15:25 – But the word that is written in their Law must be fulfilled: ‘They hated me without a cause.’
Not being able to “believe”
Jn 5:44 – How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Jn 12:39 – Therefore they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,
Not “believing” and sin
Jn 8:24 – I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
Jn 16:9 – concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;
Contrast between believing/faithful and unbelieving
Mk 16:16 – Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Rom 3:3 – What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?
1 Cor 14:22 – Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.
2 Tim 2:13 – if we are faithless, he remains faithful–for he cannot deny himself.
1 Pet 2:7 – So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, “The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,”
Faithful titles of the Lord
Heb 2:17 – Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
1 Pet 4:19 – Therefore let those who suffer according to God’s will entrust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good.
Rev 1:5 – and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Rev 3:14 – “And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: ‘The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s creation.
Rev 19:11 – Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
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