Bible Verses About Faith

For Adonai ELOHIM will help. This is why no insult can wound me. This is why I have set my face like flint, knowing I will not be put to shame.

My vindicator is close by; let whoever dares to accuse me appear with me in court! Let whoever has a case against me step forward!

Look, if Adonai ELOHIM helps me, who will dare to condemn me? Here, they are all falling apart like old, moth-eaten clothes.

Blessed is the man who trusts in ADONAI; ADONAI will be his security.

He will be like a tree planted near water; it spreads out its roots by the river; it does not notice when heat comes; and its foliage is luxuriant; it is not anxious in a year of drought but keeps on yielding fruit.

"ADONAI is all I have," I say; "therefore I will put my hope in him.

ADONAI is good to those waiting for him, to those who are seeking him out.

It is good to wait patiently for the saving help of ADONAI.

It is good for a man to bear the yoke from his youth.

Let him sit alone in silence when he has laid it on him.

Let him submit absolutely; there may yet be hope.

Let him offer his cheek to the one who strikes it, and receive his fill of insults.

For rejection by Adonai does not last forever.

He may cause grief, but he will take pity, in keeping with the greatness of his grace.

But then some Kasdim approached and began denouncing the Jews.

They said to N'vukhadnetzar the king, "May the king live forever!

Your majesty, you have ordered that everyone who hears sound of the horn, pipe, harp, zither, lute, bagpipe and the rest of the musical instruments is to fall down and worship the gold statue;

and that whoever does not fall down and worship is to be thrown into a blazing hot furnace.

There are some Jews whom you have put in charge of the affairs of the province of Bavel, Shadrakh, Meishakh and 'Aved-N'go; and these men, your majesty, have paid no attention to you. They do not serve your gods, and they do not worship the gold statue you set up."

In a raging fury N'vukhadnetzar ordered that Shadrakh, Meishakh and 'Aved-N'go be brought. When the men had been brought before the king,

N'vukhadnetzar said to them, "Shadrakh! Meishakh! 'Aved-N'go! Is it true that you neither serve my gods nor worship the gold statue I set up?

All right, then. If you are prepared, when you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, harp, zither, lute, bagpipe and the rest of the musical instruments, to fall down and worship the gold statue, very well. But if you won't worship, you will immediately be thrown into a blazing hot furnace - and what god will save you from my power then?"

Shadrakh, Meishakh and 'Aved-N'go answered the king, "Your question doesn't require an answer from us.

Your majesty, if our God, whom we serve, is able to save us, he will save us from the blazing hot furnace and from your power.

But even if he doesn't, we want you to know, your majesty, that we will neither serve your gods nor worship the gold statue which you have set up."