Bible verses about "faith" | Riverside

⁷ for we walk by faith, not by sight —

⁵ that your faith might not depend on the wisdom of man but on the power of God.

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

¹ FAITH is an assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen. ² By this the men of old won their fame. ³ By faith we understand that the worlds came into order at the word of God, so that what is now seen did not come out of things that are visible. ⁴ By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain, for which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God testifying to his gifts, and by it, though dead, he still speaks. ⁵ By faith Enoch was taken from the earth so that he did not see death, and he was not found because God had taken him. For before being taken he had this testimony that he had pleased God. ⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must have faith that he exists and that he becomes the rewarder of those who seek him. ⁷ By faith Noah, after receiving a divine warning regarding things as yet unseen, reverently built an ark for the saving of his household. Thus he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness of faith. ⁸ By faith Abraham when called obeyed and came out into the place which he was to obtain for an inheritance. He came out not knowing where he was coming. ⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land as in a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking for the city that has the foundations, whose architect and builder is God. ¹¹ By faith Sarah received power to conceive a child even when past the natural time of life, since she thought him trustworthy who had given the promise. ¹² And so from just one man, already dead in that respect, there sprang descendants "as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand on the seashore innumerable." ¹³ These all died in faith, not having obtained the promised blessings, but they saw them and greeted them afar and confessed that they were strangers and foreigners in the land. ¹⁴ For those who say such things make it plain that they are seeking a fatherland. ¹⁵ And if they had been thinking of that land from which they came they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ But now they desire a better land, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed of them — of being called their God; for he has prepared for them a city. ¹⁷ By faith Abraham when he was tested offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises began offering his only son ¹⁸ regarding whom it had been said, "Those only whose descent is through Isaac shall be called your descendants." ¹⁹ He reasoned that God was able to raise him even from the dead, and figuratively he did win him back from the dead. ²⁰ By faith also Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau and spoke of things to come. ²¹ By faith Jacob when dying blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshiped leaning on the top of his staff. ²² By faith Joseph, when at his end, mentioned the departure of the children of Israel and gave orders regarding his own bones. ²³ By faith Moses at his birth was hidden three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they did not fear the king's command. ²⁴ By faith Moses when he had grown up refused to be called a son of Pharaoh's daughter. ²⁵ He chose rather to suffer hard-ship with the people of God than to enjoy the brief pleasure of sin, ²⁶ and he thought the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. For he was looking to the final reward. ²⁷ By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; for he endured as if seeing him who is unseen. ²⁸ By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer might not touch their first-born. ²⁹ By faith they crossed the Red Sea as on dry land; but the Egyptians when they tried to do so were drowned. ³⁰ By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled seven days. ³¹ By faith Rahab, the prostitute, did not perish with those who had refused to believe; because she had welcomed the spies with peace. ³² And what shall I say further? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and of David and Samuel and the prophets; ³³ who through faith struggled against kingdoms and subdued them, did deeds of righteousness, obtained promised blessings, shut the mouths of lions, ³⁴ quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness grew strong, became mighty in war, turned back armies of foreigners. ³⁵ Women received back their dead by a resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to pay for liberation, in order to gain a better resurrection. ³⁶ Still others had experience of mockings and floggings, yes, of chains and prisons. ³⁷ They were stoned, afflicted, sawn in two, murdered with the sword. They went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, distressed, maltreated. ³⁸ The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, in caves and in holes in the earth. ³⁹ All these won God's approval by their faith. Yet they did not obtain the fulfillment of the promise. ⁴⁰ In reference to us God had something better in view, that they without us should not reach perfection.

¹ THEREFORE, surrounded as we are by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us, ² looking to Jesus the beginner and finisher of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured a cross, thinking little of the shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God. ³ Think of him who endured such hostile speaking of sinners against him, that you may not grow weary and despondent in heart. ⁴ You have not yet resisted to blood in the contest against sin, ⁵ and you have forgotten the encouragement which reasons with you as with sons, "My son, do not think slightingly of the discipline of the Lord and be not faint-hearted when reproved by him: ⁶ for whom the Lord loves he disciplines and scourges every son whom he receives as his own." ⁷ It is for discipline that you are enduring. God is laying it upon you as upon sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? ⁸ But if you are without discipline, in which all share, then you are bastards and not sons. ⁹ Besides, we had fathers of our flesh who disciplined us and we used to reverence them. Shall we not much more be submissive to the Father of our spirits and live? ¹⁰ For they for a few days disciplined us as seemed good to them, but he for our profit, that we may share his holiness. ¹¹ All discipline for the time being seems not joyous but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have passed through its training. ¹² So raise the relaxed hands and straighten the unstrung knees ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that the lame limb may not be put out of joint but rather cured. ¹⁴ Follow after peace with all men and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. ¹⁵ Be on your guard that no one shall fail of the grace of God, that no bitter root shall sprout up and trouble you and through it many be stained, ¹⁶ that there shall be none unchaste, or profane like Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright. ¹⁷ For you know that afterward when he wished to inherit the blessing he was rejected, for he found no place for a change in his father's mind though he sought it earnestly with tears. ¹⁸ For you have not come to something that may be touched, ablaze with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest ¹⁹ and the blast of a trumpet and the sound of words which those who heard begged not to have spoken of them. ²⁰ For they could not bear the command, "If even an animal touches the mountain it must be stoned." ²¹ And so dreadful was the sight that Moses said, "I am terrified and trembling." ²² But you have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, to tens of thousands of angels, ²³ to the festal assembly and congregation of first-born who are enrolled in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of righteous men made perfect, ²⁴ and to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant and to the sprinkled blood which tells something better than the blood of Abel. ²⁵ Beware of rejecting him who is speaking. For if those did not escape who rejected him who taught the divine will on earth, much less shall we if we reject him who speaks from heaven. ²⁶ His voice then shook the earth, but now he has announced, "Yet once for all I shall shake not only the earth but also heaven." ²⁷ And this expression "yet once for all" shows the removal of the things shaken, as of things that have been made, that the unshaken things may remain. ²⁸ So then, since we are receiving an unshaken kingdom, let us have grace by which we may worship God acceptably with reverence and awe. ²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.

¹ LET brotherly love continue. ² Do not forget hospitality: for by this some have, without knowing it, had angels as their guests. ³ Keep in mind the prisoners, as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are suffering hardships, since you yourselves are also in the body. ⁴ Let marriage be held in honor by all and let the bed be undefiled; for unchaste persons and adulterers God will judge. ⁵ Let your lives be free from the love of money. Be content with what you have. For he has said, "I will not fail you nor will I forsake you." ⁶ So we may say with courage, "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?" ⁷ Remember your leaders, those who have spoken to you God's message, think how they ended their lives and imitate their faith. ⁸ Jesus Christ is yesterday and to-day the same — yes, and through the ages. ⁹ Do not be carried away with all sorts of foreign teachings. It is well to have the heart strengthened by grace, not by special kinds of food. Those who live in that way are not profited. ¹⁰ We have an altar of which those who worship in the Tent have no right to eat. ¹¹ For the bodies of the animals whose blood is brought into the holy place by the High Priest are burned outside the camp. ¹² For this reason Jesus also, to make the people holy by his own blood, suffered outside the gate. ¹³ Let us go out to him outside the camp and bear the reproaches cast on him. ¹⁴ For we have here no continuing city, but we are seeking the coming one. ¹⁵ Through him then let us offer to God always the sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of lips that make confession in his name. ¹⁶ Do not forget kindness and generosity, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased. ¹⁷ Obey your leaders and yield to their authority; for they watch over your souls as those who must give account, that they may do it with joy and not with sighing. That would be unprofitable for you. ¹⁸ Pray for us: for we are confident that we have a good conscience, wishing to live nobly in every way. ¹⁹ I earnestly beg you to do this that I may be restored 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 through the blood of an eternal covenant, ²¹ equip you with every good thing for doing his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen. ²² I beg you, brethren, to bear with my words of exhortation; for I have written to you briefly. ²³ I wish you to know that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty. With him, if he comes soon, I will see you. ²⁴ Give my greetings to all your leaders and all the holy. Those who are from Italy send their greetings to you. ²⁵ Grace be with you all.

³⁷ For "no word that comes from God will fail."

¹⁹ You have faith that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons have that faith, and they shudder.

⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, ⁹ not of works, that no one may boast.

²² Jesus answered, "Have faith in God. ²³ I tell you truly whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his mind, but believes that what he says will be, will have it. ²⁴ For this reason I say to you, all things whatever that you pray and ask for, believe that you have obtained them and you will have them.

¹ FAITH is an assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen.

⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he who comes to God must have faith that he exists and that he becomes the rewarder of those who seek him.

²² and whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will obtain."

¹⁷ So then faith comes from the report and report comes through the word of Christ.