61 Bible Verses about Unbelief, As Response To God

For they believed not in God, and they trusted not in his salvation.

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.

And they and our fathers acted proudly, and they will harden their neck, and will not hear to thy commands,

And they will yet add to sin against him to embitter the Most High in a dry land. And they will tempt God in their heart to ask food for their soul. And they will speak against God; they said, Will God be able to arrange a table in the desert?

Ye shall not harden your heart as the strife, as the day of trial in the desert: When your fathers tempted me, they proved me; also they saw my works. Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways:read more.
For I sware in mine anger if they shall come in to my rest

I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes.

And they heard not to me and they inclined not their ear, and they will harden their neck: they did evil above their fathers.

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers, also you.

See, brethren, lest there shall be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in removing away from the living God. But beseech one another according to each day, as far as the day is called; lest any of you be hardened by deceit of sin. For we have been partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our foundation firm to the end;read more.
In that it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, ye should not harden your hearts, as in the exasperation. For some, having heard, did exasperate: but not all they having come out of Egypt by Moses. And with whom was he offended forty years? was it not with them having sinned, whose members fell in the desert? And to whom sware he that they could not come into his rest, if not to them having been disobedient? And we see they could not come in through unbelief.

And they will despise in the land of desire; they trusted not to his word:

And for the promise of God he was not separated by unbelief; but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God;

But not all listened to the good news. For Esaias says, Lord, who believed our report?

For we also were announced of the good news, as well as they: but the word of the report profited them not, not being mixed with faith to them having heard.

He came to his own things, and his own received him not.

And having come into his native land, he taught them in their assembly, so that they were struck with amazement, and said, Whence to him this wisdom, and powers? Is not this the son of the carpenter? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then to him all these?read more.
And they were scandalized in him. And Jesus said to them, A prophet is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in his house. And he did not many powers there, because of their unbelief.

And he came out thence, and came to his native land; and his disciples follow him. And sabbath having come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing were struck with amazement, saying, Whence to this one these things? and what this wisdom given to him, that such powers are done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Jude, and Simon and are not his sisters here with us? And they were scandalized in him.read more.
And Jesus said to them, That a prophet Is not unhonoured, except in his native land, and in kinsmen, and in his house. And he could do no power there, except having laid his hands upon a few sick, he cured. And he wondered for their unbelief. And he went about the towns teaching.

And Jesus turned back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a rumor went out concerning him through the whole country round about. And he taught in their assemblies, being honoured of all. And he came to Nazareth where he was brought up, and he went in, as was the custom to him in the day of the sabbaths, into the assembly, and stood up to read.read more.
And the book of Esaias the prophet was given to him. And having unfolded the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for which he anointed me to announce good news to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken in heart, to proclaim a remission to the captives, and a recovery of sight to the blind, to send away with remission the bruised, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. And having folded the book and given back to the servant, he sat down. And the eyes of all in the assembly were looking attentively upon him. And he began to say to them, That this day has this writing been filled up in your ears. And all bore him testimony and wondered at the words of grace going out of his mouth: and said, Is not this the son of Joseph And he said to them, Directly will ye say to me this proverb, Physician, cure thyself: what things we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country. And he said; Truly I say to you, That not any prophet is acccepted in his country. And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land; And to none of them was Elias sent, except to Sarepta, of Sidon, to a widow-woman. And many leprous were during Eliseus the prophet in Israel; and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian. And all in the assembly were filled with wrath, hearing these things, And having risen up, they cast him without the city, and they brought him to the brow of the mount upon which their city was built, to hurt him down. And he having passed through the midst of them, went away.

For neither believed his brethren in him.

Then he possessed with a demon, blind, and dumb, was brought to him; and he cured him, so that the blind and dumb spake and saw also. And all the crowds were affected, and said, Is not this the son of David? But the Pharisees, having heard, said, He casts not out demons, but by Beelzebub, ruler of demons.

And the scribes, they having come down from Jerusalem, said, That he has Beelzeboul, and that by the ruler of demons he casts out demons.

And he was casting out a demon, and it was dumb. And it was the demon having come out, the dumb spake; and the crowds wondered. And certain of them said, By Beelzebul ruler of demons he casts out demons. And others, tempting, sought a sign of him from heaven.

Saying, Art thou Christ? tell us. And he said to them, If I tell you, ye would not believe:

And the Father having sent me, he has testified of me. Nor have ye at any time heard his voice, or seen his form. And his word ye have not remaining in you: for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

But I said to you, That ye have seen me, and believe not.

Then the Jews surrounded him, and said to him, How long takest thou away our soul? If thou art Christ, say to us with freedom of speech. Jesus answered them, I said to you, and ye believe not: the works which I do in my Father's name, these testify of me. But ye believe not, for ye are not of my sheep, as I said to you.

Therefore honour to you believing: and to the unbelieving, the stone which the builders disapproved of has become the head of the corner,

Truly, truly, I say to thee, that what we know, we speak, and what we have seen we testify; and ye receive not our testimony. If I spake to you earthly things, and ye believe not, how, if I speak to you heavenly things, will ye believe

For if ye had believed Moses, ye had believed me: for he himself wrote of me. And if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?

And because I say the truth, ye believe me not.

Then said Jesus to him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye would not believe.

Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, Teacher, we wish to see a sign from thee. And he having answered, said to them, An evil generation and an adulteress seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

And crowds being collected, he began to say, This is an evil generation: it seeks a sign; and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign; and no sign shall be given her, except the sign of Jonas the prophet. And having left them, he departed.

And having sighed deeply in spirit, he says, Why seeks this generation for a sign Verily I say to you, shall a sign be given to this generation.

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

And he shall linger, and the men will hold fast upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; in Jehovah's having compassion upon him; and they shall bring him forth, and lead him without the city.

And Moses will answer and say, And behold, they will not believe in me, and they will not bear to my voice: for they will say, Jehovah was not seen to thee.

And the third, which was to the king leaning upon his hand, will answer the man of God, and say, Behold, Jehovah making lattices in the heavens, will this word be? and he will say, Behold thee seeing with thine eyes, and from thence thou shalt not eat

And now Hezekiah shall not deceive you, and he shall not stimulate you according to this, and ye shall not believe upon him: for not any God of any nation and kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my father: much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand.

Who believed in our report? and to whom was the arm of Jehovah uncovered?

For John came to you in the way of justice, and ye believed him not: and the publicans and harlots believed him; and ye, seeing, repented not afterwards, to believe him.

And the Jews urged on the worshipping and distinguished women, and the first men of the city, and they raised up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and they cast them out of their bounds,

And the unbelieving Jews excited and trained up the souls of the nations against the brethren.

And when the Jews from Thessalonica heard that also in Berea the word of God was announced by Paul, they came there also, agitating the crowd.

And when certain were hardened, and believed not, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he separated the disciples, discoursing in the day in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

And some truly were persuaded by things spoken, and some disbelieved.

All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all profanation and injustice of men, of those detaining the truth in injustice;

That all might be judged not believing the truth but contented in iniquity.

And that we may be delivered from unfit and evil men: for not faith of all.

Being before slandering, expelling, and an abuser: but I was commiserated, because I did, not knowing, in unbelief.

And they and our fathers acted proudly, and they will harden their neck, and will not hear to thy commands, And they will refuse to hear, and they will not remember thy wonders which thou didst with them; and they will harden their necks, and they will give a head to turn back to their servitude in their perverseness: and thou a God of forgivenesses, merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and great of mercy, and thou didst not forsake them.

And it shall be if they will not believe in thee, and will not hear to the voice of the first sign, and they believed the voice of the latter sign. And it shall be, if they will not believe in the two signs, and will not hear to thy voice, and take thou from the water of the river and pour out upon the dry; and the water which thou shalt take from the river shall be and shall be for blood upon the dry.

In all this they yet sinned, and they believed not in his wonders.

Then the Jews believed not of him that he was blind, and saw again, until they called the parents of him having looked up.

Then again lifted up the Jews stones that they might stone him. Jesus Answered them, Many good works I shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do ye stone me The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being man, makest thyself God.

And he having done so many signs before them, they did not believe in him:

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

How then shall they call upon whom they believed not? and how shall they believe whom they heard not? and how shall they hear without him proclaiming? And how shall they proclaim, except they be sent? as has been written, How beautiful the feet of them announcing good news, peace, of them announcing good things!

So that tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving: and the gift of prophecy, not to the unbelieving, but to the believing. If therefore the whole church come together upon the same, and all speak with tongues, and the private individual, or unbelieving, come in, will they not say that ye are enraged? And If all prophesy, and any unbelieving, or ignorant private individual come in, he is refuted by all, he is examined by all:

Likewise, wives being subject to their own husbands; that also, if any believe not the word, by the turning back of wives might be gained without the word;