'Believed' in the Bible

Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty.

and the people believed. When they heard that the Lord had attended to the Israelites and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed down close to the ground.

When Israel saw the great power that the Lord had exercised over the Egyptians, they feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

They believed his promises; they sang praises to him.

Who would have believed what we just heard? When was the Lord's power revealed through him?

The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

Then Jesus said to the centurion, "Go; just as you believed, it will be done for you." And the servant was healed at that hour.

And blessed is she who believed that what was spoken to her by the Lord would be fulfilled."

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."

and because of his word many more believed.

Jesus told him, "Go home; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed along with his entire household.

If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, "Whenever the Christ comes, he won't perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?"

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?

While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

And many believed in Jesus there.

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, "Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?"

Nevertheless, even among the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they would not confess Jesus to be the Christ, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.

Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, came in, and he saw and believed.

Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed."

All who believed were together and held everything in common,

But many of those who had listened to the message believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.

The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.

But when they believed Philip as he was proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they began to be baptized, both men and women.

Even Simon himself believed, and after he was baptized, he stayed close to Philip constantly, and when he saw the signs and great miracles that were occurring, he was amazed.

This became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

Then when the proconsul saw what had happened, he believed, because he was greatly astounded at the teaching about the Lord.

When the Gentiles heard this, they began to rejoice and praise the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed for eternal life believed.

The same thing happened in Iconium when Paul and Barnabas went into the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a large group of both Jews and Greeks believed.

When they had appointed elders for them in the various churches, with prayer and fasting they entrusted them to the protection of the Lord in whom they had believed.

But some from the religious party of the Pharisees who had believed stood up and said, "It is necessary to circumcise the Gentiles and to order them to observe the law of Moses."

Therefore many of them believed, along with quite a few prominent Greek women and men.

But some people joined him and believed. Among them were Dionysius, who was a member of the Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

Crispus, the president of the synagogue, believed in the Lord together with his entire household, and many of the Corinthians who heard about it believed and were baptized.

When Apollos wanted to cross over to Achaia, the brothers encouraged him and wrote to the disciples to welcome him. When he arrived, he assisted greatly those who had believed by grace,

and said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They replied, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

Many of those who had believed came forward, confessing and making their deeds known.

When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all ardent observers of the law.

But regarding the Gentiles who have believed, we have written a letter, having decided that they should avoid meat that has been sacrificed to idols and blood and what has been strangled and sexual immorality."

I replied, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

For what does the scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness."

(as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"). He is our father in the presence of God whom he believed -- the God who makes the dead alive and summons the things that do not yet exist as though they already do.

Against hope Abraham believed in hope with the result that he became the father of many nations according to the pronouncement, "so will your descendants be."

How are they to call on one they have not believed in? And how are they to believe in one they have not heard of? And how are they to hear without someone preaching to them?

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you -- unless you believed in vain.

Whether then it was I or they, this is the way we preach and this is the way you believed.

But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written, "I believed; therefore I spoke," we also believe, therefore we also speak.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

And when you heard the word of truth (the gospel of your salvation) -- when you believed in Christ -- you were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit,

when he comes to be glorified among his saints and admired on that day among all who have believed -- and you did in fact believe our testimony.

And so all of them who have not believed the truth but have delighted in evil will be condemned.

And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said, "As I swore in my anger, 'They will never enter my rest!'" And yet God's works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness," and he was called God's friend.

(The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.)