48 Bible Verses about Faith, Nature Of

but without faith it is impossible to please; for he that comes to God, must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of those that seek him.

who through him believed in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God and believe in me.

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that every one believing in him may not perish but have eternal life.

Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have words of eternal life, and we have believed and know that you are the Holy [Son] of God.

who being reviled reviled not, suffering threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously,

having a remembrance of the unfeigned faith in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded that [it dwells] also in you.

and said to the woman, We no longer believe on account of your report, for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.

But faith is a confidence in respect to things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

And being not weak in faith, he did not regard himself as dead, being now about a hundred years old, nor Sarah's incapacity for child-bearing, and he did not doubt the promise of God by unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God, being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was able to perform.

For they who exercise the deaconship well, procure for themselves an honorable standing, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

let us approach with a true heart in a full assurance of faith, sprinkled in heart from an evil conscience, and washed in body with pure water,

and Jesus immediately stretching out his hand, took hold of him and said, Man of little faith, why did you doubt?

And the father of the little child immediately crying out, said, I believe; help my unbelief.

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came. Then the other disciples said to him, We have seen the Lord; but he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the impression of the nails, and put my finger in the impression of the nails, and put my hand in his side, I will not believe. And after eight days his disciples were again within, and Thomas with them. Jesus came, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be to you.read more.
Then he said to Thomas, Reach here your finger and behold my hands, and reach your hand and put it in my side, and be not faithless but believing. Thomas answered and said to him, My Lord and my God.

Jesus said to him, Because you have seen me you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and believed.

while we look not on the things which are seen but on the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are for a time, but those which are unseen are eternal.

But faith is a confidence in respect to things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen. For by it the ancients obtained a good repute. We know by faith that the worlds were made by the word of God, that the seen was not made from the apparent.

All these died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen and saluted them from a distance, and having professed that they were foreigners and strangers on the earth. For those who say such things show that they seek a native country.

By faith Abraham being called obeyed and went out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he was going. By faith he resided temporarily in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, co-heirs of the same promise; for he looked for the city which has foundations [fixed abodes] whose designer and builder is God.

By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in respect to things to come. By faith Jacob dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshipped leaning on the top of his staff. By faith Joseph at the close of life made mention of the exodus of the children of Israel and gave charge concerning his bones.

By faith Moses when he became a man refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to have an enjoyment of sin for a time, judging the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he had respect to the reward.

For we have also received the good news as they did; but the word of the report did not profit them, not being accompanied with faith in those who heard.

but made manifest now by the scriptures of the prophets, by the command of the eternal God, for the obedience of the faith among all nations,

[they] glorifying God on account of the proof of this ministry for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ and the liberality of the contribution to them and to all,

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace and peace be multiplied to you.

By faith Noah having been divinely instructed concerning things not yet seen, fearing built the ark for the salvation of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness by faith.

By faith Abraham being called obeyed and went out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out not knowing where he was going.

By faith Abraham when tried offered Isaac, and he that received the promises offered his only son,

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down when they had been surrounded seven days.

but when it was now morning Jesus stood on the shore; but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus. Then Jesus said to them, Children, have you any thing to eat? They answered him, No. And he said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship and you shall find. Then they cast it, and they were not able to draw it from the number of fishes.

Whence, King Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

What is the profit, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has not works? Can faith save him? And if a brother or sister is naked, or destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, Go in peace, be warmed and be filled, but gives them not the necessary supplies for the body, what is the profit?read more.
So also faith, if it has not works, is dead, being alone. But some one will say, You have faith, and I have works; show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by works. You believe that there is one God? You do well; demons also believe and tremble. But will you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? You see that faith cooperated with his works, and by works was faith made perfect, and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, And Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him a righteousness, and he was called God's friend. You see then that a man is justified by works and not by faith only. And in like manner also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body without a spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

But if I am even poured out as a libation on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and congratulate you all;

remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of the hope of our Lord Jesus Christ before God even our Father,

PAUL, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to piety,

and for the same purpose also, giving all diligence add to your faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge,

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision avails any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which works by love.

Therefore, I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and love to all the saints,

Peace and love be to the brothers with faith, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

But now Timothy having come to us from you and told us the good news of your faith and love, and that you have a good remembrance of us always, desiring to see us, as we also you,

but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation,

But the end of the commandment is love from a pure heart and good conscience and faith unfeigned,

Let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the faithful, in word, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

But that on the good ground signifies those who, with a noble and good heart, hearing the word retain it, and bear fruit persistently.

But he that received the seed in the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it, who also bears fruit, and produces some one hundred, and some sixty, and some thirty-fold.

And these are those sown in good ground, who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit, one thirty, and one sixty, and one a hundred.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me that bears not fruit he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit he trims, that it may bear more fruit. You are now pure, by means of the word which I have spoken to you;read more.
continue in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it continues in the vine, so you cannot, unless you continue in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. He that continues in me and I in him, this man bears much fruit; for separated from me, you can do nothing.