27 Bible Verses about Trusting Other People
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This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.
Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?
We are those with true circumcision who worship by the Spirit of God. We glory in Christ Jesus, and put no confidence in the flesh.
How horrible it will be for those who go to Egypt for help! Cursed are those who rely on very strong warhorses, who depend on many chariots. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel. They do not seek Jehovah.
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
But instead you plowed evil and harvested unrighteousness. You have eaten the fruit produced by your lies. This is because you trusted in your way and in the large number of your soldiers.
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on people.
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on human leaders.
Do not put your faith in your neighbor. Do not trust a friend! Guard your lips from her who lies in your bosom (is your intimate companion).
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
You will also leave this place with your hands over your head, because Jehovah has rejected those you trust. They will not help you.
Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.
The Benjaminites knew they were defeated. The main body of the Israelite army had retreated from the Benjaminites. This is because they relied on the men that were hiding around Gibeah.
You rely on Egypt that broken reed of a staff. If a man leans on it (relies on its power) his hand (strength) will be pierced (wounded) (diminished). So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who put their faith in him.
How then can you put to shame the least of my master's servants? You put your hope in Egypt for chariots and horsemen:
When you trust Egypt, you trust a broken stick for a staff. If you lean on it, it stabs your hand and goes through it. This is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like for everyone who trusts him.
How can you defeat my master's lowest-ranking officers when you trust Egypt for chariots and horses?
Achish trusted David and thought: David's people must be furious with him. From now on he will have to take orders from me.
It will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.'
For first of all, when you come together in the congregation, I hear that there are divisions among you and I partly believe it.
Great is my confidence in you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in our entire affliction.
We have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.
We send our brother with them, whom we have many times proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.
He will then come to be glorified in his holy ones, and to be marveled at by all those who believed, because our testimony to you was believed.