Bible verses about "faith" | Moffatt

⁷ (for I have to lead my life in faith, without seeing him):

⁵ so that your faith might not rest on any human 'wisdom' but on the power of God.

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

¹ Now faith means we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see. ² It was for this that the men of old won their record. ³ It is by faith we understand that the world was fashioned by the word of God, and thus the visible was made out of the invisible. ⁴ It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still. ⁵ It was by faith that Enoch was taken to heaven, so that he never died (he was not overtaken by death, for God had taken him away). For before he was taken to heaven, his record was that he had satisfied God; ⁶ and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him. ⁷ It was by faith that Noah, after being told by God what was still unseen, reverently constructed an ark to save his household; thus he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that follows faith. ⁸ It was by faith that Abraham obeyed his call to go forth to a place which he would receive as an inheritance; he went forth, although he did not know where he was to go. ⁹ It was by faith that he sojourned in the promised land, as in a foreign country, residing in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob who were co-heirs with him of the same promise; ¹⁰ he was waiting for the City with its fixed foundations, whose builder and maker is God. ¹¹ It was by faith that even Sara got strength to conceive, bearing a son when she was past the age for it — because she considered she could rely on Him who gave the promise. ¹² Thus a single man, though he was physically impotent, had issue in number like the stars in heaven, countless as the sand on the seashore. ¹³ (These all died in faith without obtaining the promises; they only saw them far away and hailed them, owning they were 'strangers and exiles upon earth.' ¹⁴ Now people who speak in this way plainly show they are in search of a fatherland. ¹⁵ If they thought of the land they have left behind, they would have time to go back, ¹⁶ but they really aspire to the better land in heaven. That is why God is not ashamed to be called their God; he has prepared a City for them.) ¹⁷ It was by faith, when Abraham was put to the test, that he sacrificed Isaac, he was ready to sacrifice his only son, although he had received the promises ¹⁸ and had been told that it is through Isaac that your offspring shall be reckoned — ¹⁹ for he considered that God was able even to raise men from the dead. Hence he did get him back, by what was a parable of the resurrection. ²⁰ It was by faith that Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau in connexion with the future. ²¹ It was by faith that, when Jacob was dying, he blessed each of the sons of Joseph, bending in prayer over the head of his staff. ²² It was by faith that Joseph at his end thought about the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders about his own bones. ²³ It was by faith that Moses was hidden for three months after birth by his parents, because they saw the child was beautiful, and had no fear of the royal decree. ²⁴ It was by faith that Moses refused, when he had grown up, to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; ²⁵ ill-treatment with God's people he preferred to the passing pleasures of sin, ²⁶ considering obloquy with the messiah to be richer wealth than all Egypt's treasures — for he had an eye to the Reward. ²⁷ It was by faith that he left Egypt, not from any fear of the king's wrath; like one who saw the King Invisible, he never flinched. ²⁸ It was by faith that he celebrated the passover and performed the sprinkling by blood, so that the destroying angel might not touch Israel's first-born. ²⁹ It was by faith that they crossed the Red Sea like dry land — and when the Egyptians attempted it they were drowned. ³⁰ It was by faith that the walls of Jericho collapsed, after being surrounded for only seven days. ³¹ It was by faith that Rahab the harlot did not perish along with those who were disobedient, as she had welcomed the scouts peaceably. ³² And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak and Samson and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets — ³³ men who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouth of lions, ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness won to strength, proved valiant in warfare, and routed hosts of foreigners. ³⁵ Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection; ³⁶ others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment — ³⁷ they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated ³⁸ (men of whom the world was not worthy), wanderers in the desert and among the hills, in caves and gullies. ³⁹ They all won their record for faith, but the Promise they did not obtain. ⁴⁰ God had something better in store for us; he would not have them perfected apart from us.

¹ Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily, ² our eyes fixed upon Jesus as the pioneer and the perfection of faith — upon Jesus who, in order to reach his own appointed joy, steadily endured the cross, thinking nothing of its shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Compare him who steadily endured all that hostility from sinful men, so as to keep your own hearts from fainting and failing. ⁴ You have not had to shed blood yet in the struggle against sin. ⁵ And have you forgotten the word of appeal that reasons with you as sons? — My son, never make light of the Lord's discipline, never faint under his reproofs; ⁶ for the Lord disciplines the man he loves, and scourges every son he receives. ⁷ It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons; for where is the son who is not disciplined by his father? ⁸ Discipline is the portion of all; if you get no discipline, then you are not sons but bastards. ⁹ Why, we had fathers of our flesh to discipline us, and we yielded to them! Shall we not far more submit to the Father of our spirits, and so live? ¹⁰ For while their discipline was only for a time, and inflicted at their pleasure, he disciplines us for our good, that we may share in his own holiness. ¹¹ Discipline always seems for the time to be a thing of pain, not of joy; but those who are trained by it reap the fruit of it afterwards in the peace of an upright life. ¹² So up with your listless hands! Strengthen your weak knees! ¹³ And make straight paths for your feet to walk in. You must not let the lame get dislocated, but rather make them whole. ¹⁴ Aim at peace with all — and at that consecration without which no one will ever see the Lord; ¹⁵ see to it that no one misses the grace of God, that no root of bitterness grows up to be a trouble by contaminating all the rest of you; ¹⁶ that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did — Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright. ¹⁷ You know how later on, when he wanted to obtain his inheritance of blessing, he was set aside; he got no chance to repent, though he tried for it with tears. ¹⁸ You have not come to what you can touch, to flames of fire, to mist and gloom and stormy blasts, ¹⁹ to the blare of a trumpet and to a Voice whose words made those who heard it refuse to hear another syllable ²⁰ (for they could not bear the command, If even a beast touches the mountain, it must be stoned) — ²¹ indeed, so awful was the sight that Moses said, I am terrified and aghast. ²² You have come to mount Sion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to myriads of angels in festal gathering, ²³ to the assembly of the first-born registered in heaven, to the God of all as judge, to the spirits of just men made perfect, ²⁴ to Jesus who mediates the new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood whose message is nobler than Abel's. ²⁵ See that you do not refuse to listen to His voice. For if they failed to escape, who refused to listen to their instructor upon earth, much less shall we escape, if we discard Him who speaks from heaven. ²⁶ Then his voice shook the earth, but now the assurance is, once again I will make heaven as well as earth to quake. ²⁷ That phrase, once again, denotes the removal of what is shaken (as no more than created), to leave only what stands unshaken. ²⁸ Therefore let us render thanks that we get an unshaken realm; and in this way let us worship God acceptably — ²⁹ but with godly fear and awe, for our God is indeed a consuming fire.

¹ Let your brotherly love continue. ² Never forget to be hospitable, for by hospitality some have entertained angels unawares. ³ Remember prisoners, as if you were in prison yourselves; remember those who are being ill-treated, since you too are in the body. ⁴ Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous. ⁵ Keep your life free from the love of money; be content with what you have, for He has said, Never will I fail you, never will I forsake you. ⁶ So that we can say confidently, The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can men do to me? ⁷ Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you; look back upon the close of their career, and copy their faith. ⁸ Jesus Christ is always the same, yesterday, to-day, and for ever. ⁹ Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food — that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it. ¹⁰ Our altar is one of which the worshippers have no right to eat. ¹¹ For the bodies of the animals whose blood is taken into the holy Place by the high priest as a sin-offering, are burned outside the camp; ¹² and so Jesus also suffered outside the gate, in order to sanctify the people by his own blood. ¹³ Let us go to him outside the camp, then, bearing his obloquy ¹⁴ (for we have no lasting city here below, we seek the City to come). ¹⁵ And by him let us constantly offer praise to God as our sacrifice, that is, the fruit of lips that celebrate his Name. ¹⁶ Do not forget beneficence and charity, either; these are the kind of sacrifices that are acceptable to God. ¹⁷ Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief — which would be a loss to yourselves. ¹⁸ Pray for me, for I am sure I have a clean conscience; my desire is in every way to lead an honest life. ¹⁹ I urge you to this all the more, that I may get back to you the sooner. ²⁰ May the God of peace who brought up from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep, with the blood of the eternal covenant, ²¹ furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen. ²² I appeal to you, brothers, to bear with this appeal of mine. It is but a short letter. ²³ You must understand that [our] brother Timotheus is now free. If he comes soon, he and I will see you together. ²⁴ Salute all your leaders and all the saints. The Italians salute you. ²⁵ Grace be with you all. Amen.

³⁷ for with God nothing is ever impossible."

¹⁹ You believe in one God? Well and good. So do the devils, and they shudder.

⁸ For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift, ⁹ not the outcome of what you have done — lest anyone should pride himself on that;

²² Jesus answered them, "Have faith in God! ²³ I tell you truly, whoever says to this hill, 'Take and throw yourself into the sea,' and has not a doubt in his mind but believes that what he says will happen, he will have it done. ²⁴ So I tell you, whatever you pray for and ask, believe you have got it and you shall have it.

¹ Now faith means we are confident of what we hope for, convinced of what we do not see.

⁶ and apart from faith it is impossible to satisfy him, for the man who draws near to God must believe that he exists and that he does reward those who seek him.

²² All that ever you ask in prayer you shall have, if you believe."

¹⁷ (You see, faith must come from what is heard, and what is heard comes from word of Christ.)