38 Bible Verses about Unbelief, And Life Of Faith
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Abraham fell to his face. He laughed and said to himself: Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety?
Jehovah said to Abraham: Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?' Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life. Sarah shall have a son!
Moses said to Jehovah: Here I am leading six hundred thousand people, and you say that you will give them enough meat for a month? Could enough cattle and sheep even be killed to satisfy them? Are all the fish in the sea enough for them?
Jehovah's angel appeared to him there and said: Jehovah is with you, mighty man of valor! Gideon said to him: May I ask, sir, why has all this happened to us if Jehovah is with us? What happened to all the wonderful things that our fathers told us Jehovah used to do, how he brought them out of Egypt? Jehovah has abandoned us. He left us to the mercy of the Midianites.
A man came from Baal Shalishah. He brought Elisha twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley harvested that year and some freshly cut heads of grain. Elisha told his servant to feed the group of prophets with this. He asked: How am I to feed a hundred hungry men with this? Elisha replied: Give it to them to eat, because Jehovah says that they will eat and still have some left over. (Matthew 14:20) So the servant set the food before them. Just as Jehovah said, they ate and had some left over.
You will be without voice or language till the day when these things happen. Your lack of faith in what I say has caused this.
They asked Jesus: Are you the Expected One or should we look for another?
Suddenly a storm blew in and the boat was covered with waves. Jesus was asleep. And they came to him, woke him, and cried: Save us, Lord, or we will perish. He said to them: Why are you afraid, you of little faith? Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the sea. Suddenly there was a great calm.
He was in back of the boat sleeping on a cushion. They woke him. They said: Master is it nothing to you that we are in danger of destruction? He awoke from sleep and commanded the wind and sea. He commanded the sea to be at peace and rest. And he commanded the wind to go down and there was a great calm. He said: Why are you full of fear? Do you have no faith?
Jesus fell asleep as they sailed to the other side. A large windstorm came to the lake. The boat was filling with water, and they were in danger. They awoke him saying: Master, Master, we parish! He rebuked the wind and the raging of the water and there was calm. He asked them, Were is your faith? They were afraid and they marveled. They asked: Who then is this, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?
When they saw him walking on the water they were troubled. It is a spirit (apparition) (illusion)! they screamed! They cried out with fear.
When they saw him walking on the sea they thought it was a spirit (an illusion) and screamed.
He said: Come. Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water toward Jesus. When he noticed how strong the wind was, he became afraid. He began to sink, and cried: Help me Lord! Suddenly, Jesus put out his hand and took hold of him, and said: You of little faith, why were you in doubt?
Hearing this, Jesus said: You of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves about not having bread? Do you still not see or remember the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
Hearing this Jesus said: Why do you reason about having no bread? Do you not understand? Are your hearts dull of understanding? Having eyes, do you not see? Having ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand how many baskets full of broken pieces did you up bring back? They answered: Twelve.read more.
And the seven loaves among the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you bring back? And they told him: Seven. He said: Do you not yet understand?
He replied: You give them food to eat. They asked: Should we buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread to feed them?
Philip answered: Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is not sufficient for everyone to take a little.
They had not understood the loaves of bread. Their minds were closed.
The disciples replied: Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?
His disciples answered, How could we get enough bread in this desolate place?
Jesus said: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man said: Lord by now the body has decayed for he has been dead four days.
They said to her: You are mad. But she kept insisting that it was so. Then they said: It must be his angel. But Peter continued knocking. When they opened the door, and saw him, they were astonished. Peter motioned for them to be quiet. Then he told them how God brought him out of the prison. He said: Tell James and the brothers. Then he went away to another place.
Afterward he was revealed to the eleven as they sat at the table. He rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
He said to them: You are foolish men. You are slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
(Verses She told those who had been with him, for they mourned and wept. When they heard that he was alive and she had seen him they did not believe it.read more.
After this two of them saw him in another form as they walked, on their way into the country. They went to tell the rest. They didn't believe them, either.
These words seemed to be idle talk and they did not believe them.
The other disciples therefore said to him: We have seen the Lord. He said: Unless I feel the print of the nails in his hands and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.
Jesus answered: You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me.
Jesus then said: O faithless generation. How long will I be with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring him to me.
Jesus answered: O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and put up with you? Bring your son to me.
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said: Why were we not able to send it out? He told them: It was because of your lack of faith: Truly I say to you, if you have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you.
Believe me that I am with the Father and the Father is with me, or else believe me because of the works.
And Jesus answered: Go tell John the things you hear and see. The blind receive their sight. The lame walk! The lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear. The dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. Blessed and happy is he who is not offended by me.
If I am not doing the works of my Father, do not believe me. But if I do them and you do not believe me, believe the works! That way you may know and understand that the Father is with me, and I am with the Father.
Jesus did many miracles (signs) in the presence of the disciples. They are not written in this book. These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. By believing you may have life in his name.
Yet, he looked to the promise of God. He did not waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith. He gave the glory to God!
