27 Bible Verses about distrust

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Genesis 50:15-17

And Joseph's brethren will see that their father died, and they will say to him, Joseph will lie in wait for us, and turning back, will turn back to us all the evil which we did to him. And they will come forth to Joseph, saying, Thy father commanded before his death, saying, So shall ye say to Joseph, I pray thee now take away the trespass of thy brethren and their sin; for they did to thee evil: and at this time now take away upon the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph will weep in their speaking to him.

Genesis 32:6-8

And the messengers will turn back to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother, to Esau, and also he came to thy meeting, and four hundred men with him. And Jacob will be greatly afraid and it will press upon him: and he will divide the people which were with him, and the sheep and the oxen, and the camels, into two camps. And he will say, If Esau shall come to the one camp and smite it, and the remaining camp was to escape.

Judges 11:19-20

And Israel will send messengers to Sihon, king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon; and Israel will say to him, We will pass now through in thy land, even to my place. And Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through in his bound; and Sihon will gather together all his people and will encamp in Jahaz, and he will war with Israel.

Acts 15:37-38

And Barnabas purposed to take with them John, called Mark. But Paul deemed worthy, having withdrawn from them from Pamphylia, and not having come with them to the work, not to take him with them.

Zephaniah 3:2

She heard not to the voice: she received not instruction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.

Deuteronomy 1:32-33

And in this word ye are not believing in Jehovah your God. He going in the way before you to search out for you a place for you to encamp, in fire by night, to cause you to see in what way ye shall go in it, and in a cloud by day.

Deuteronomy 9:23-24

And in Jehovah's sending you from Kadesh-Barnea, saying; Go ye up and possess the land which I gave to you: and ye will rebel against the mouth of Jehovah your God, and ye trusted not to him, and ye heard not to his voice. And ye were rebelling against Jehovah from the day I knew you.

Psalm 78:7

And they shall set their hope in God, and they shall not forget the works of God, and they shall watch his commands.

2 Kings 17:14-15

And they heard not, and they will harden their neck as the neck Of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God. And they will reject his laws and his covenant which he cut out with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified in them; and they will go after vanity, and they will be vain, and after the nations which were round about them which Jehovah commanded them not to do as they.

Jeremiah 13:25

This thy lot and the portion of thy measure from me, says Jehovah; because thou didst forget me and thou wilt trust in falsehood.

Ezekiel 33:13

In my saying to the just, living, he shall live; and he trusted upon his justice, and he did evil, all his justice shall not be remembered; and in his iniquity which he did he shall die in it

Malachi 3:6-10

For I am Jehovah, I changed not; and ye the sons of Jacob were not finished. For from the days of your fathers ye departed from my laws, and ye watched not. Turn back to me and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies. And ye said, In what shall we turn back? Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings.read more.
Ye are cursed with a curse: and ye defrauded me, the nation all of it Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency.

Job 4:18

Behold, in his servants he will not trust, and upon his messengers he will set folly:

Job 15:15

Behold, in his holy ones he will, not trust; and the heavens were not clean in his eyes.

John 2:24

And Jesus himself trusted not himself to them, for he knew all,

Job 39:12

Wilt thou believe in him that he will turn back thy seed and gather to thy threshing-floor?

Jeremiah 7:4

Ye shall not trust to yourselves to words of falsehood, saving, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah are they.

Jeremiah 9:4

Watch ye each from his neighbor, and to any brother ye shall not trust, for every brother deceiving, will deceive, and every neighbor will go tale-bearing.

Habakkuk 2:18

What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?

From Thematic Bible


Distrust » Of religious men » Unbelievers, general references to

Luke 12:46

The lord of that servant shall come in a day which he expects not, and in an hour which he knows not, and he will cut him in two equal parts, and set his portion with the unbelieving.

Distrust » Of religious men » Moses, when told the host of israel should be fed

Numbers 20:12

And Jehovah will say to Moses, and to Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to consecrate me before the eyes of the sons of Israel, for this, ye shall not bring in this gathering to the land which I gave to them.

Numbers 11:21

And Moses will say, Six hundred thousand of foot the people which I am in the midst of them: and thou saidst, I will give flesh to them, and they shall eat a month of days.

Distrust » Doubt » Peter sinking in the sea

Matthew 14:31

And quickly Jesus, having stretched out the hand, laid hold of him, and says to him, O thou of little faith, for what didst thou doubt?

Matthew 16:8

And Jesus having known, said to them, Why reason ye among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have taken no loaves

Distrust » Doubt » The two on the way to emmaus

Distrust » Of religious men » The disciples, in failing to heal a demoniac

Matthew 17:19-20

Then the disciples having come to Jesus apart, said, Why could not we cast it out? And Jesus said to them, For your unbelief: for truly I say to you, If ye have faith as a kernel of mustard, ye shall say to this mount, Go away from thence, and it shall go away; and nothing shall be impossible to you.

Distrust » Of religious men » Abraham, when promised a child in old age

Genesis 17:17

And Abraham will fall upon his face and laugh, and will say in his heart, Shall there be born to the son of a hundred years? and shall Sarah the daughter of ninety years, bring forth?

Distrust » Doubt » The disciples powerless to heal

Distrust » Doubt » Rebuked by Christ

Distrust » Of religious men » The disciples, when told of the resurrection of Christ

Luke 24:11

And their words appeared before them as idle talk, and they believed them not.

Distrust » Of religious men » Zacharias, when promised that he should have a great son

Luke 1:20

And, behold, thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, till the day in which these things shall be, because thou didst not believe my words, which shall be completed in their time.

Distrust » Doubt » The disciples in the storm

Mark 4:40

And he said to them, Why are ye so timorous? how have ye not faith?

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