55 Bible Verses about Faith, As A Body Of Beliefs

only they heard that he who persecuted us formerly, now preached the faith which he formerly destroyed;

of which I was made a herald and an apostle,?? speak the truth, I lie not,?? teacher of nations in faith and truth.

And the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples was greatly multiplied at Jerusalem, and a great multitude of the priests obeyed the faith.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

to Timothy my true son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace from God our Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

All who are with me salute you. Salute those who love us in the faith. The grace be with you all.

Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except by me.

but if I delay, that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

I wonder that you have so quickly turned away from him that called you in the grace of Christ to another gospel, which is not another; but there are some who disturb you and wish to subvert the gospel of Christ. But if we or an angel from heaven preach you another gospel contrary to what we have preached you let him be accursed.read more.
As we said before I now also say again, If any one preaches you a gospel contrary to what you have received let him be accursed.

as it is right for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart, both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you being all partakers of my grace.

Retain the form of sound words which you heard from me in faith and the love in Christ Jesus. Guard the good trust, through the Holy Spirit which dwells in us.

Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus the Nazoraean, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and prodigies and miracles, which God performed by him in the midst of you, as you yourselves know, this man, delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have affixed to the cross, and killed by the hand of the wicked, him has God raised up, having loosed the pains of death, as it was not possible that he should be held by it.

I DECLARE to you, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, if you adhere to the word we preached to you, unless indeed you believed in vain. For I delivered to you at first, what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,read more.
and that he was buried, and that he rose on the third day according to the Scriptures,

Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God thought it not a robbery to be equal with God; but he abased himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of man,read more.
and being found in form like a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient even till death, and the death of the cross. Wherefore God also highly exalted him, and gave him a name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of beings in heaven and in the earth and under the earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

who is the likeness of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation, for by him were all things created which are in heaven and on the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers. All things were created through him and for him, and he is before all things, and in him all things consist,read more.
and he is the head of the body, the church; who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that he might himself be preeminent in all things, for in him [God] was well pleased that all fullness should dwell, and through him to reconcile all things to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross, through him, whether things on the earth or things in the heavens.

The word is true and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief;

And confessedly great is the mystery of piety; [Christ,] who was manifested in the flesh, was justified in the spirit, was seen by angels, was preached to the nations, was believed on in the world, was received up into glory.

The saying is true, For if we died together we shall live together; if we endure patiently we shall reign together; if we deny him he will deny us; if we believe not he continues faithful; for he cannot deny himself.

Wherefore leaving the account of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of a change of mind from dead works, and of faith in God, of baptisms taught, and the imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of the eternal judgment.

For I certify you, brothers, of the gospel preached by me, that it is not according to man; for I neither received it from man nor was I taught it, but by a revelation of Jesus Christ.

for the law was given by Moses, the grace and truth were by Jesus Christ.

but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God; Abraham did not do this.

For I received of the Lord, what I also delivered to you; that on the night in which he was betrayed, the Lord Jesus took bread

All Scripture is divinely inspired and is profitable for instruction, for conviction, for correction, for education in righteousnes,

For prophecy was never brought by the will of man, but moved by the Holy Spirit men spoke from God,

holding firmly the faithful word taught, that he may be able both to exhort with sound instruction and to convince those who contradict.

Remember the word which I said to you, a servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will also keep yours.

for we cannot but tell what we have seen and heard.

and what you heard from me through many witnesses, these things commit to faithful men, who shall be competent to teach others also.

For we did not follow skilfully constructed myths in making known to you the power and appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye witnesses of his majesty.

And having preached the good news to that city, and made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, and Iconium, and Antioch, confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be manly, be strong,

HAVING therefore a great chief priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast the profession. For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin. Let us therefore approach with boldness the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace for timely aid.

And fully believing this, I know that I shall continue, and continue with you all, for your advancement and joy of the faith,

As therefore you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him, founded and built up in him, and established in the faith as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

and then many shall be offended, and shall betray one another, and hate one another;

and having fallen away, it is impossible again to renew to a change of mind, they having crucified again and exposed to shame the Son of God.

but Elymas the magian, for so his name is interpreted, opposed them, seeking to turn away the proconsul from the faith.

Try yourselves, whether you are in the faith; prove yourselves; or know you not yourselves that Christ is in you unless you are reprobates? But I hope you will know that we are not reprobates.

And if any one provides not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

For the love of money is a root of all evils, which some having desired have been misled from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

We ought therefore to attend the more to the things which we heard, lest at any time we should glide away [from them].

See, brothers, that there be not at any time in any one of you an evil mind of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which has a great reward.

See that you refuse not him that speaks; for if they did not escape who refused him that gave answers on earth, much more shall we [not escape] who turn ourselves away from him in heaven;

Only conduct yourselves as citizens worthily of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

But the Spirit says expressly, that in the last times some shall apostatize from the faith, attending to lying spirits and doctrines of demons, [misled] by the hypocrisy of false teachers, whose consciences are cauterized, who forbid to marry, [command] to abstain from meat, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by the faithful and those who know the truth.read more.
For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be rejected, [but] to be received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer. Suggesting these things to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished with the words of the faith and the good instruction which you have followed;

Of these are those who go into the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by various desires, always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. As Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these oppose the truth, men of no judgment, reprobate in respect to the faith.

For there are many disorderly wranglers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision, whom it is necessary to silence, who mislead whole families, teaching for base gain what they ought not. A certain one of them, their own poet, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gormandizers.read more.
This testimony is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

and sanctify the anointed Lord in your hearts, and be always ready with a defense to every one that asks you a reason for the hope that is in you; but with meekness and fear,

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith;

It is necessary therefore that a bishop should be blameless, a husband of one wife, circumspect, sober, well-behaved, hospitable, apt to teach,

having the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were called and made the good profession before many witnesses.