27 Bible Verses about Trusting Other People
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Thus says Yahweh, "Cursed [is] the person who trusts in humankind and makes flesh his {strength}, and turns aside his heart from Yahweh.
Turn away from humanity, who [has] breath in its nostrils, for by what [is] it esteemed?
For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God and boast in Christ Jesus and do not [put] confidence in the flesh,
Ah! Those who go down [to] Egypt for help! They rely on horses and trust in chariots because [they are] many, and in horsemen because they are very numerous, and they do not look to the holy one of Israel, and they do not consult Yahweh.
Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.
You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped injustice, you have eaten the fruit of lies, because you have trusted in your strength, in the multitude of your warriors.
[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans.
[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust princes.
Do not put faith in a friend; put no trust in a close friend. Guard the doorways of your mouth from the one who lies in your lap.
Even {my close friend}, whom I trusted, [who] ate my bread, has lifted [his] heel against me.
A bad tooth and a lame foot [is] the trust of a faithless person {in a time} of trouble.
Also from there you will come out with your hands on your head, for Yahweh has rejected {those in whom you trust}, and you will not prosper through them.
And Gaal son of Ebel and his relatives came, and they crossed over into Shechem, and the lords of Shechem {gave him confidence}.
The descendants of Benjamin saw that they were defeated, and the men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin because they trusted the ambush that they had set against Gibeah.
Now, look! You {rely} on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which [when] a man leans on it, it goes into his hand and pierces it! So [is] Pharaoh the king of Egypt for all who are trusting on him!
How {can you repulse a single captain among the least of the servants of my master}? [Yet] you rely for yourself on Egypt for chariots and horsemen!
Look, you trust in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which [if] a man leans on it, goes into his hand and bores through it! Such [is] Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to all those who trust in him.
But how can you drive back {one governor among the least of my master's servants}, when you trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
And Achish trusted David, saying, "{He has made himself utterly hated} among his people in Israel, and he will be my servant forever."
And it will not be again for the house of Israel an object of trust, bringing to remembrance [their] guilt {when they turned back to them}, and they will know that I [am] the Lord Yahweh."
For in the first place, [when you] come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.
Great [is] my confidence toward you; great [is] my boasting on your behalf; I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.
I rejoice, because in everything I am completely confident in you.
And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are both doing and you will do [the things] that we are commanding.
And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times in many [things] that he is diligent, but now much more diligent [because of his] great confidence in you.
whenever he should come to be glorified on that day by his saints and to be marveled at by all who believe, because our testimony was believed among you,
