45 Bible Verses about Unbelief, As Response To God

"Stiff-necked, uncircumcised in heart and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Ghost! As your fathers did, so do you.

See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God. On the contrary, encourage each other daily, so long as there is a "Today," so that no one of you is hindered by the deceitfulness of sin. For we are become comrades of the Christ, if we hold our first title deed firm until the very end.read more.
In the words of Scripture, Today, if you hear his voice, Do not continue to harden your hearts as at the Provocation. For who were they that heard and yet provoked him? Was it not all who came out of Egypt under the leadership of Moses? And with whom was he grieved for forty years? Was it not with those who had sinned, and whose dead bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they should never enter into his rest, if not to those who had proved faithless? So you see that it was through unbelief that they were not able to enter in.

Nor did he with regard to the promise of God waver in unbelief, but he waxed strong in faith, while he gave God glory,

And yet they did not all hearken to the good news; for Isaiah said, Lord, who hath believed our message?

For the Good News is come to us just as it did to them. But the message they heard was of no benefit to them, because they did not share the faith of those who gave heed to it.

He came to his own creation, and his own folk welcomed him not.

and came into his own country, where he continued teaching the people in their synagogues, until they were amazed. "Where did he get such wisdom?" they said, "and such wondrous powers? "Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? and his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? "Are not his sisters all living among us? Where, then, did he get all these powers?"read more.
This kept them from believing in him. Wherefore Jesus said, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and among his own family." And he did no mighty works there, because of their lack of faith.

Jesus left that place, and accompanied by his disciples, came into his own part of the country. When it came Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue; many, as they listened, were deeply impressed. "Where did he get all this?" they asked; "What is the wisdom that is given to this man, and miracles such as these that happen at his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?"read more.
So they disapproved of him. Then Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his native land and among his relatives and in his home." And he was unable to do any miracle there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick folk and healed them. And he wondered at their lack of faith. So he went among the neighboring villages, teaching.

Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and his fame spread throughout all the surrounding country, and he began to teach in their synagogues, and was glorified by all. Then he came to Nazareth where he had been brought up. and, as was his custom, he entered into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read.read more.
And there was handed him the roll of the prophet Isaiah; and unrolling it he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised, To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord. Then rolling up the papyrus, he gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him, and he began to say to them, "Today is this scripture fulfilled in your hearing." And they all spoke well of him, and marveled at the words of charm that fell from his lips. "Is not this the son of Joseph?" they asked. Jesus answered. "Doubtless you will quote the proverb to me, 'Physician, heal thyself!' Do also here in your own country all that we hear that you have done in Capernaum." "I tell you in solemn truth," he added, "that no prophet is acceptable in his own country. In very truth I tell you there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land; "yet Elijah was not sent to any one of them, but only to a widow in Zarephath in Sidon. "And there were many lepers in Israel in the days of the prophet Elisha, yet none of them was cleansed but only Naaman the Syrian." When they had heard these words, those in the synagogue were filled with fury; they rose, hurried him outside the town, and brought him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, intending to cast him down headlong. But he, passing through the midst of them, took his departure.

For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

Then they brought to him a blind and deaf demoniac; and he healed him, so that the dumb both spoke and saw. And all the crowds were amazed, and he began to say, "Can this be the Son of David?" When the Pharisees heard it they said, "It is only by the aid of Beelzebub, the Prince of the demons, that this fellow is driving out demons."

The Scribes also who had come down from Jerusalem, said, "He is Beelzebub," and, "He casts out demons by the power of the Prince of the demons."

Once he was casting out a dumb demon, and when the demon was gone out, the dumb man spoke, and the people wondered. But some of them said, "It is by Beelzebub, the prince of demons, that he cast out demons." Others, tempting him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven.

"Are you the Christ? Tell us!" "If I tell you," he answered, "you will not believe;

"And the Father who sent me has himself borne testimony concerning me. None of you has heard his at any time or seen him, nor had his word dwelling within you, because you do not believe him whom he sent.

"But as I told you, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe.

Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly." Jesus answered them. "I have told you, and you do not believe. The works which I am doing in my Father's name, these bear witness concerning me. "But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

For you, then, that believe, is the preciousness; but for those who do not believe, A stone which the builders rejected, The same has become the head stone of the corner,

"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony. If I have told you earthly things and yet none of you believe me, how will you believe if I tell you concerning heavenly things?

"For if you believed Moses you would believe me, for he wrote about me. And if you do not believe his writings, how will you ever believe my words?"

"But as for me, it is because I speak the truth to you that you do not believe me.

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."

Then some of the Scribes and Pharisees accosted him. "Teacher," they said, "we want to see some sign from you." In reply Jesus told them. "An evil and faithless generation seeks a sign, and no sign will be given them except the sign of the prophet Jonah.

When the crowd were beginning to throng about him he proceeded to say. "This is an evil generation! It seeks a sign, and there shall be no sign be given to it except the sign of Jonah;

A wicked and faithless generation is seeking a sign, but no sign shall be given it but the sign of Jonah." So he left them and went away.

At this Jesus sighed deeply in his spirit, and said: "Why does the present generation seek a sign? In solemn truth I tell you that no sign shall be given this generation."

Others, tempting him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven.

"For John came to you in the road of righteousness, and you did not give credence to him; but the tax-gatherers and the harlots gave credence to him. But you, although you saw this, did not even then change your minds and give credence to him.

But the Jews urged on the devout women of high rank, and the leading citizens, and stirred up a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of the district,

But the disobedient Jews stirred up the souls of the Gentiles, and embittered them against them against the brothers.

As soon as the Jews in Thessalonica learned that the word of God was preached by Paul in Berea also, they came there, and stirred up and troubled the crowds.

But when some grew hardened and disobedient, and spoke evil of the Way before the crowd, he left them, withdrew the disciples, and continued to hold discussions daily in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.

Some began to believe what he said, but some were unbelieving.

All things are pure to the pure; but to the contaminated and the faithless nothing is pure, nay, their very minds and consciences are tainted.

For God's wrath is ever being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by their unrighteousness.

so that they all should be condemned, who are faithless to the truth, but take pleasure in evil.

and that I may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for all do not hold the faith.

although I had formerly been a blasphemer and a persecutor and a doer of outrage. But I obtained mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief.

The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

The Jews again took stones with which to stone him. Jesus said to them. "I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?" "We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

With these words Jesus went away and hid himself from them. But although he had wrought such signs in their presence, still they did not believe in him.

"If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me. "But if I am doing them, then though you believe not me, believe the deeds, in order that you may come to know and keep on clearly understanding that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

How then shall thy call upon Him in whom they do not believe? And how are they to believe in One of whom they have never heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how can men preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring a glad gospel.

So then the gift of tongues is for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe. Accordingly, when the whole church assemblies, and everybody is speaking "with tongues," if there enter men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that you are mad? But if all are prophesying when an unlearned or unbelieving man enters, he is convicted in conscience by your speaker, he feels himself judged by all,

In the same way you wives must be submissive to your own husbands; so that if some of them will not believe the message, they may apart from the message be won over by the behavior of their wives,