26 Bible Verses about Faith, Necessity Of

Then they said to him, "What must we do to carry out God's work?" Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."

saying, "The time has come and the reign of God is near; repent, and believe this good news."

He led them out of the jail and said to them, "Gentlemen, what must I do to be saved?" "Believe in the Lord Jesus," they said, "and you and your household will be saved!"

"John's baptism was a baptism in token of repentance," said Paul, "and he told the people to believe in him who was to follow him, that is, in Jesus."

but earnestly urged Greeks as well as Jews to turn to God in repentance and to believe in our Lord Jesus.

through whom we have received God's favor and been commissioned in his name to urge obedience and faith upon all the heathen,

His command is this??hat we are to believe in his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he has commanded us to do.

Philip said to him, "Master, let us see the Father, and it will satisfy us." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and the Father is in union with me? I am not the source of the words that I say to you, but the Father who is united with me is doing these things himself.read more.
You must believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must believe because of the things themselves.

So faith comes from hearing what is told, and that hearing comes through the message about Christ. But I ask, had they no opportunity to hear it? On the contrary, "Their voices have gone all over the earth, And their words to the ends of the world."

He came into the world, and though the world came into existence through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to his home, and his own family did not welcome him. But to all who did receive him and believe in him he gave the right to become children of God,

For God's anger is breaking forth from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of the men who in their wickedness are suppressing the truth. For all that can be known of God is clearly before them; God has shown it to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible nature??is eternal power and divine character??ave been clearly perceptible through what he has made. So they have no excuse,read more.
for, though they knew God, they have not honored him as God or given thanks to him, but they have indulged in futile speculations, until their stupid minds have become dark.

What advantage is there then in being a Jew, and what is the use of circumcision? A great deal, from every point of view. In the first place, the Jews were intrusted with the utterances of God. What if some of them have shown a lack of faith? Can their lack of it nullify the faithfulness of God?read more.
By no means! God must prove true, though every man be false; as the Scripture says, "That you may be shown to be upright in what you say, And win your case when you go into court."

To him who can make you strong by the good news I bring and the preaching about Jesus Christ, through the disclosure of the secret kept back for long ages but now revealed, and at the command of the eternal God made known through the writings of the prophets to all the heathen, to lead them to obedience and faith??27 to the one wise God be glory forever through Jesus Christ. Amen.

"Your minds must not be troubled; you must believe in God, and believe in me.

May God, the source of hope, fill you with perfect happiness and peace in your faith, so that you may have overflowing hope through the power of the holy Spirit.

Simon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the uprightness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have been given a faith as privileged as ours; God bless you and give you perfect peace through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.

but without faith it is impossible to please him; for whoever would approach God must have faith in his existence and in his willingness to reward those who try to find him.

I tell you, whoever listens to my message and believes him who has sent me, possesses eternal life, and will not come to judgment, but has already passed out of death into life.

Whoever believes in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever disobeys the Son will not experience life, but will remain under the anger of God.

No one who believes in him has to come up for judgment. Anyone who does not believe stands condemned already, for not believing in God's only Son.

so that all who have refused to believe the truth but have preferred disobedience may be condemned.

For it says in Scripture, "Here I lay a choice stone in Zion, a costly cornerstone; No one who believes in it will ever be disappointed!" It is you, therefore, who believe who see its value, but for men who do not believe, "The stone which the builders refused has been made a cornerstone," and "A stone to stumble over, and a rock to trip them up." They stumble over the message because they will not obey it; that is their destiny.

but the man who has misgivings about eating, and then eats, is thereby condemned, for he is not following his convictions, and anything that does not rest on conviction is wrong.

One man thinks one day better than another, while another thinks them all alike. Everybody must be fully convinced in his own mind. The man who observes the day does it in the Lord's honor. The man who eats does it in the Lord's honor, for he gives God thanks, and the man who abstains does it in the Lord's honor, and gives him thanks. None of us lives only to himself, and none of us dies only to himself;read more.
if we live, we are responsible to the Lord, and if we die, we are responsible to him; so whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.

See to it, my brothers, that no one of you has a wicked, unbelieving heart, that turns away from the ever-living God, but encourage one another every day, as long as we can still speak of Today, so that no one of you may have his heart hardened by the pleasantness of sin. For we are true partners with Christ if we really keep the conviction that we had at first unshaken to the very end.read more.
So while we can still speak of Today, if you hear him speak, do not harden your hearts, as they provoked him by doing. For who was it that heard him speak and yet provoked him? Was it not all those who had escaped from Egypt under Moses' leadership? And who was it with whom God was angry forty whole years? Was it not with those who had sinned, who dropped dead in the desert? And who was it to whom God made oath that they should not be admitted to his Rest, if it was not to those who had disobeyed him?

Still later he appeared to the Eleven themselves when they were at table, and reproached them for their obstinacy and want of faith, because they had not believed those who had seen him after he had been raised from the dead.