26 Bible Verses about Faith, Necessity Of

Then they asked him, "What must we do to perform the works of God?" Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."

he said, "The time has now come, God's reign is near: repent and believe in the gospel."

and brought them out (after securing the other prisoners). "Sirs," he said, "what must I do to be saved?" "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ," they said, "and then you will be saved, you and your household as well."

"John," said Paul, "baptized with a baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in Him who was to come after him, that is, in Jesus."

bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

through whom I have received the favour of my commission to promote obedience to the faith for his sake among all the Gentiles,

Now this is what he commands, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another as he has commanded us to do;

"Lord," said Philip, "let us see the Father; that is all we want." Jesus said to him, "Philip, have I been with you all this time, and yet you do not understand me? He who has seen me has seen the Father. What do you mean by saying, 'Let us see the Father'? Do you not believe I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words I speak to you all I do not speak of my own accord; it is the Father who remains ever in me, who is performing his own deeds.read more.
Believe me, I am in the Father and the Father is in me: ??or else, believe because of the deeds themselves.

(You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.) But, I ask, "Have they never heard?" Indeed they have. Their voice carried over all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

he entered the world ??the world which existed through him ??yet the world did not recognize him; he came to what was his own, yet his own folk did not welcome him. On those who have accepted him, however, he has conferred the right of being children of God, that is, on those who believe in his Name,

But God's anger is revealed from heaven against all the impiety and wickedness of those who hinder the Truth by their wickedness. For whatever is to be known of God is plain to them; God himself has made it plain ??20 for ever since the world was created, his invisible nature, his everlasting power and divine being, have been quite perceptible in what he has made. So they have no excuse. Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.

Then what is the Jew's superiority? What is the good of circumcision? Much in every way. This to begin with ??Jews were entrusted with the scriptures of God. Even supposing some of them have proved untrustworthy, is their faithlessness to cancel the faithfulness of God?read more.
Never! Let God be true to his word, though every man be perfidious ??as it is written, That thou mayest be vindicated in thy pleadings, and triumph in thy trial.

[Now to Him who can strengthen you by my gospel, by the preaching of Jesus Christ, by revealing the secret purpose which after the silence of long ages has now been disclosed and made known on the basis of the prophetic scriptures (by command of the eternal God) to all the Gentiles for their obedience to the faith ??27 to the only wise God be glory through Jesus Christ for ever and ever: Amen.]

Let not your hearts be disquieted; you believe ??believe in God and also in me.

May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, that you may be overflowing with hope by the power of the holy Spirit!

Symeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have been allotted a faith of equal privilege with ours, by the equity of our God and saviour Jesus Christ: grace and peace be multiplied to you by the knowledge of our Lord.

and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him.

Truly, truly I tell you, he who listens to my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life; he will incur no sentence of judgment, he has already passed from death across to life.

He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who disobeys the Son shall not see life ??God's anger broods over him."

He who believes in him is not sentenced; he who will not believe is sentenced already, for having refused to believe in the name of the only Son of God.

so that all may be doomed who refuse faith in the Truth but delight in evil.

For thus it stands in the scripture: Here I lay a Stone in Sion, a choice, a precious cornerstone: he who believes in him will never be disappointed. Now you believe, you hold him 'precious,' but as for the unbelieving ??the very stone the builders rejected is now the cornerstone, a stone over which men stumble and a rock of offence; they stumble over it in their disobedience to God's word. Such is their appointed doom.

But if anyone has doubts about eating and then eats, that condemns him at once; it was not faith that induced him to eat, and any action that is not based on faith is a sin.

Then again, this man rates one day above another, while that man rates all days alike. Well, everyone must be convinced in his own mind; the man who values a particular day does so to the Lord. The eater eats to the Lord, since he thanks God for his food; the non-eater abstains to the Lord, and he too thanks God. For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself;read more.
if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. Thus we are the Lord's whether we live or die;

Brothers, take care in case there is a wicked, unbelieving heart in any of you, moving you to apostatize from the living God. Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened. For we only participate in Christ provided that we keep firm to the very end the confidence with which we started,read more.
this word ever sounding in our ears, To-day, when you hear his voice, harden not your hearts as at the Provocation. Who heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who left Egypt under the leadership of Moses? And with whom was he exasperated for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the desert? And to whom did he swear that they would never enter his Rest? To whom but those who disobeyed?

Afterwards he appeared at table to the eleven themselves and reproached them for their unbelief and dulness of mind, because they had not believed those who saw him risen from the dead. [But they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief lies under the sway of Satan, who will not allow what lies under the unclean spirits to understand the truth and power of God; therefore," they said to Christ, "reveal your righteousness now." Christ answered them, "The term of years for Satan's power has now expired, but other terrors are at hand. I was delivered to death on behalf of sinners, that they might return to the truth and sin no more, that they might inherit that glory of righteousness which is spiritual and imperishable in heaven."]