45 Bible Verses about Unbelief, As Response To God

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears, ye do always oppose yourselves against the Holy Ghost: as your fathers, so are ye.

Take heed, brethren, that there be not in any one of you a wicked heart of infidelity, [evident] in departure from the living God: but exhort one another daily, whilst to-day remains, that no one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we are partakers with Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end;read more.
while it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation. For some, though they had heard, provoked him; yet not all who came out of Egypt by Moses. But against whom was he incensed forty years? Was it not against those who had sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they should not enter into his rest, but to those who did not believe? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

for he disputed not against the promise of God with unbelief; but was mighty in faith, giving glory to God;

But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith, "Lord, who hath believed our report?"

For we are hearing the same gospel preached as they did; but the word heard did not profit them, not being incorporated by faith with those who heard it.

He came unto his peculiar people, and his peculiar people did not receive him.

And coming into his own country, taught them in their synagogues, so that they were exceedingly struck, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these miracles? Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? and his sisters, are they not all among us? whence then hath he all these things?read more.
And they were offended at him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not disrespected, except in his own country, and in his own family. And he did not there many miracles because of their unbelief.

AND he went out thence, and came into his native country; and his disciples followed him. And when the sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many when they heard him were amazed, saying, Whence hath this man these things? and what is the wisdom given to him, that even such miracles are done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses, and Judah and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.read more.
Then said Jesus unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his native place, and among his relations, and in his own family. And he could not do there any miracle, except that laying his hands on a few sick persons he cured them. And he marvelled at their infidelity. And he went about the villages around, teaching.

And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and a report went out into all the region round about concerning him. And he taught in their synagogues, being universally admired. And he came to Nazareth, where he was brought up; and he went, according to his usual custom, into the synagogue on the sabbath-day, and rose up to read.read more.
And there was given to him the book of the prophet Isaiah: and unrolling the volume, he found the passage where it is written, "The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the work whereunto he hath anointed me; he hath sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor; to heal the contrite in heart; to proclaim liberty to the captives; and restore sight to the blind; to send forth the bruised free from bonds; to publish the acceptable year of the Lord." And rolling up the volume, he gave it to the attendant officer, and sat down. And the eyes of all who were in the synagogue were attentively fixed on him. And he began to say to them, To day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears. And all concurred in their testimony to him, and marvelled at the gracious words which proceeded from his mouth. And they said, Is not this the son of Joseph? And he said unto them, Ye will probably say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself! the works which we have heard to have been performed by thee at Capernaum, do the like here in thy own country. But he said, Verily, I say unto you, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country. Now I tell you of a certainty, that there were many widows in the days of Elias, in Israel, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, so that a grievous famine was upon all the land. And unto none of them was Elias sent, but unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, to a widow woman. And many lepers were in Israel in the days of the prophet Elisha, and no one of them was cleansed, but Naaman the Syrian. And they were all filled with rage in the synagogue, when they heard these observations: and rising up, dragged him out of the city, and led him to the brow of the hill, on which their city was built, in order to cast him down headlong: but he passing through the midst of them, went away.

For even his own brethren did not believe on him.

Then was brought to him a demoniac, blind and dumb; and he cured him, so as to enable the blind and dumb both to speak and see. And all the multitudes were lost in amazement, and they said, Is not this the son of David? But the Pharisees hearing them, said, This fellow casteth not out devils, but by Beelzebub, the prince of the devils.

And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem, said, He hath Beelzebub, and by this prince of the devils doth he cast out devils.

And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb person spake, and the people marvelled. But some of them said, He casteth out devils by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. But others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

If thou art the Messiah, tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:

And the Father who sent me, himself hath borne witness concerning me. Ye have neither at any time heard his voice, nor seen his form. And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.

But I have told you, That though ye have seen me, yet ye have not believed.

Then the Jews came about him, and said to him, How long dost thou keep our soul in suspense? If thou art the Messiah, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them; I told you, and ye believed not: the works which I do in the name of my Father, they bear witness of me. But ye believe not, for ye are not of my sheep, as I told you.

By you therefore who believe is he honoured: but respecting the disobedient, "the stone which the builders rejected, this very stone is become the head of the corner,

Verily, verity, I tell thee, That what we know we speak, and what we have seen we affirm; and ye receive not our testimony. If I have told you of earthly things, and ye believe not, how will you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?

For if ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for of me did he write. But if ye believe not his writings, how will ye believe my words?

But because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

Then said Jesus unto him, Unless ye see miracles and wonders, ye will not believe.

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees addressed him, saying, Master, we desire to see a sign from thee. But he answered and said unto them, A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet:

Then the multitudes thronging around him, he began to say, This is a wicked generation: it seeketh a sign, and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh a sign; and no sign shall be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonah. And he left them, and departed.

And fetching a deep sigh from his very soul, he saith, Why seeketh this generation a sign? verily I tell you, no sign shall be given to this generation.

But others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.

For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the tax-gatherers and harlots believed on him. But ye, when ye saw it, repented not afterwards, that ye should believe on him.

Then the Jews stirred up the devout women, and those who were respectable, and the principal persons of the city, and raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and cast them out of their borders.

But the unbelieving Jews stirred up, and maliciously prejudiced the spirits of the Gentiles against the brethren.

But when the Jews of Thessalonica knew that at Berea also the word of God was preached by Paul, they came thither, and stirred up the populace.

And when some were hardened, and infidel, speaking evil of the way before the people, he withdrew from them, and separated the disciples, discoursing daily in the school of one Tyrannus.

and some were convinced by the things which were spoken, but others continued in their unbelief.

All things indeed are clean to the clean: but to the defiled and to the unbelievers there is nothing clean; but their very mind and conscience are defiled.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all impiety and unrighteousness of men, holding back the truth in unrighteousness.

that they all might be damned who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.

and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for there is not faith in all.

who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and insolently violent, But I was admitted to mercy, for I did it ignorantly in unbelief;

Then the Jews did not believe that he had been blind, and received sight, until that they had called the parents of him who had received sight.

Then the Jews again brought stones, in order to stone him. Jesus said unto them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which work of these are ye going to stone me? The Jews answered him, For a good work we do not stone thee; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being merely a man, makest thyself God.

Now, though he had done so many miracles before them, they believed not on him:

If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

How then shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe on him of whom they have not heard? but how shall they hear without a preacher? and how shall they preach unless they are sent? as it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, of those who preach the glad tidings of good things!"

Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to those that believe, but to those who do not believe: but the gift of prophecy is not for those who are infidels, but for believers. If then the whole church assemble together in the same place, and all speak different tongues, and there come in illiterate persons, or infidels, will they not say ye are mad? But if all prophesy, and any infidel or illiterate person come in, he receives conviction from all, he is judged of all:

LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if some obey not the word, by their wives' conduct without the word, they may be won over;