18 Bible Verses about Reliability

and transmit the instructions I gave you in presence of many witnesses to trustworthy men, that they may be competent to teach others.

Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

well, we do know, we have believed, the love God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.

For in making a promise to Abraham God swore by himself (since he could swear by none greater), I will indeed bless you and multiply you. Thus it was that Abraham by his stedfastness obtained what he had been promised.read more.
For as men swear by a greater than themselves, and as an oath means to them a guarantee that ends any dispute, God, in his desire to afford the heirs of the Promise a special proof of the solid character of his purpose, interposed with an oath; so that by these two solid facts (the Promise and the Oath), where it is impossible for God to be false, we refugees might have strong encouragement to seize the hope set before us,

and teach them to obey all the commands I have laid on you. And I will be with you all the time, to the very end of the world."

for I am with you, and no one shall attack and injure you; I have many people in this city."

and to the very end he will guarantee that you are vindicated on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is the God who called you to this fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

However, the Lord is faithful; he will be sure to strengthen you and protect you from the Evil one.

I have a great deal to say about you and many a judgment to pass upon you; but he who sent me is true, and so I tell the world what I have learned from him."

(I tell you truly, till heaven and earth pass away not an iota, not a comma, will pass from the Law until it is all in force.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words never.

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.

He who saw it has borne witness (his witness is true; God knows he is telling the truth), that you may believe.

Certainly we cannot give up speaking of what we have seen and heard."

Well, for the office of a bishop a man must be above reproach; he must be only married once, he must be temperate, master of himself, unruffled, hospitable, a skilled teacher, not a drunkard or violent, but lenient and conciliatory, not a lover of money, able to manage his own household properly and keep his children submissive and perfectly respectfulread more.
(if a man does not know how to manage his own household, how is he to look after the church of God?); he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil; also, he must have a good reputation among outsiders, in case he incurs slander and is trapped by the devil. Deacons in turn are to be serious men; they are not to be tale-bearers or addicted to drink or pilfering; they must maintain the divine truth of the faith with a pure conscience. They too must be put on probation; after that, if they are above reproach, they can serve as deacons.

men who are above reproach, only once married, with children who believe and who are not liable to the charge of being profligate or insubordinate. [For a bishop must be above reproach ??he is a steward of God's house ??he must not be presumptuous or hot-tempered or a drunkard or violent or addicted to pilfering; he must be hospitable, a lover of goodness, master of himself, a just man, a religious man, and abstemious;read more.
he must hold by the sure truths of doctrine so as to be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and refute objections raised by any.]

Besides, while Moses was faithful in every department of God's house as an attendant ??by way of witness to the coming revelation ??6 Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only keep confident and proud of our hope.