48 Bible Verses about Faith, Necessity Of

Trust in LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and feed on [his] faithfulness. Delight thyself also in LORD, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart. Commit thy way to LORD. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.

Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.

Trust ye in LORD forever, for in LORD, [even] LORD, is an everlasting rock.

Who is among you that fears LORD, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of LORD, and rely upon his God.

They said to him therefore, What shall we do that we may work the works of God? Jesus answered, and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe in that man whom he has sent.

and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God has come near. Repent ye, and believe in the good-news.

And after bringing them outside, he said, Sirs, what must I do so that I may be saved? And they said, Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou will be saved, thou and thy household.

And Paul said, John indeed immersed an immersion of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus, the Christ.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

through whom we received grace and apostleship for obedience of faith among all the nations on behalf of his name,

And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love each other, just as he gave command.

Philip says to him, Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us. Jesus says to him, Have I been so long a time with you, and thou do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. And how can thou say, Show us the Father? Do thou not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The sayings that I speak to you I speak not from myself, but the Father who dwells in me, he does the works.read more.
Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me. But if not, believe me because of the works themselves.

So faith is from hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But I say, did they, no, not hear? Rather, Their voice went forth into all the earth, and their sayings to the limits of the inhabited world.

Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun,

He was in the world, and the world came to be through him, and the world knew him not. He came to his own, and his own did not accept him. But as many as did accept him, to them he gave power to become children of God, to those who believe in his name,

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all irreverence and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what is knowable of God is apparent in them, for God made it known to them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things made, both his eternal power and divinity, for them to be without excuse.read more.
Because, although knowing God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful, but became vain in their reasonings and their heart was darkened without understanding.

What then is the advantage of the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? Much every way. First, because they were indeed entrusted with the oracles of God. For what if some did not believe? Will their unbelief make the assurance of God ineffective?read more.
May it not happen! But let it come to pass God is true, but every man a liar, as it is written, That thou may ever be justified in thy words, and may prevail when thou are criticized.

Against thee, thee only, I have sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, that thou may be justified when thou speak, and {may prevail (LXX/NT)} when thou {are criticized (LXX/NT)}.

Now to him who is able to establish you according to my good-news, and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to a revelation of the mystery that has been kept secret for eternal times, but that was now revealed, and by prophetic scriptures, according to a commandment of the eternal God that was made known to all the nations for obedience of faith, to the only wise God through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages. Truly.

What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols? Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake, to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. But LORD is in his holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before him.

Why should the nations say, Where is now their God? But our God is in the heavens. He has done whatever he pleased. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.read more.
They have mouths, but they speak not. They have eyes, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not. They have noses, but they smell not. They have hands, but they handle not. They have feet, but they walk not, nor do they speak through their throat. Those who make them shall be like them. Yea, everyone who trusts in them. O Israel, trust thou in LORD. He is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust ye in LORD. He is their help and their shield. Ye who fear LORD, trust in LORD. He is their help and their shield.

And those who know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek thee.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. For he will deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly pestilence.read more.
He will cover thee with his pinions, and under his wings shall thou take refuge. His truth is a shield and a buckler.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid, for LORD, [even] LORD, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation.

LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Thou will keep [him] in perfect peace, [whose] mind [is] stayed [on thee], because he trusts in thee.

Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And why are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, the help of my countenance, and my God.

Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of Holy Spirit.

Simon Peter, a bondman and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have received an equally precious faith with us in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord,

And apart from faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must believe that he is, and becomes a rewarder of those who search for him.

Blessed is the man who makes LORD his trust, and respects not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

Blessed is the man who trusts in LORD, and whose trust LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, that spreads out its roots by the river, and shall not fear when heat comes, but its leaf shall be green, and shall not be worried in the year of drought, nor shall cease from yieldi

Truly, truly, I say to you, that he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life. And he does not come into condemnation, but has passed from death into life.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

He who believes in him is not condemned. He who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

so that they might be condemned--all those who did not believe the truth, but who delighted in unrighteousness.

It is therefore contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Zion a chief corner stone, chosen, precious. And he who believes in him will, no, not be shamed. To you therefore who believe is the preciousness, but for men who disobey, A stone that the builders rejected, this became the head of the corner, and, A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, men who stumble at the word, being disobedient, for which also they were set.

Therefore thus says lord LORD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner-[stone], a sure foundation. He who believes {in him shall, no, not be shamed (LXX/NT)}.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner.

And he shall be for a sanctuary, but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a net and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it is not from faith, and everything that is not from faith is sin.

One man prefers one day above another, another man prefers every day. Let each man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He who regards the day, regards it for Lord. And he who does not regard the day, for Lord he does not regard it. And he who eats, eats for Lord, for he expresses thanks to God. And he who does not eat, for Lord he does not eat, and For none of us lives to himself, and no man dies to himself.read more.
For both if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Both if we live and if we die, therefore, we are the Lord's.

Watch, brothers, lest there will be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in withdrawing from the living God. But exhort each other during each day, while it is called Today, lest any of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become companions of the Christ, if only we keep in possession the primacy of the essence, steadfast until the end,read more.
while it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. For some who heard rebelled, but not all those who came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear were not going to enter into his rest, if not to those who were disobedient?

For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today, O that ye would hear his voice! Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, as the day of trial in the wilderness,

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD. For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good comes, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

Afterward he became visible to them, to the eleven, who were relaxing. And he upbraided their unbelief and hard heart, because they did not believe those who saw him after he was raised.