Bible Verses About Faith

It stood still, but I couldn't make out its appearance; yet the form stayed there before my eyes. Then I heard a subdued voice:

'Can a human be seen by God as righteous? Can a mortal be pure before his maker?

[God] doesn't trust his own servants, he finds fault even with his angels;

much more those living in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust. They are crushed more easily than a worm;

shattered between morning and evening; they perish forever, and no one takes notice.

Their cord within them is pulled up; then they die, without ever gaining wisdom.'

"If I were you, I would seek God; I would make my plea to him.

For God does great deeds beyond investigation, wonders beyond all reckoning.

Look, he will kill me - I don't expect more, but I will still defend my ways to his face.

And this is what will save me -that a hypocrite cannot appear before him.

"But I know that my Redeemer lives, that in the end he will rise on the dust;

so that after my skin has been thus destroyed, then even without my flesh, I will see God.

I will see him for myself, my eyes, not someone else's, will behold him. My heart grows weak inside me!

I lie down and sleep, then wake up again, because ADONAI sustains me.

I am not afraid of the tens of thousands set against me on every side.

Get away from me, all you workers of evil! For ADONAI has heard the sound of my weeping,

ADONAI has heard my pleading, ADONAI will accept my prayer.

When my enemies turn back, they stumble and perish before you.

For you upheld my cause as just, sitting on the throne as the righteous judge.

ADONAI is a stronghold for the oppressed, a tower of strength in times of trouble.

Those who know your name put their trust in you, for you have not abandoned those who seek you, ADONAI.

Mikhtam. By David: Protect me, God, for you are my refuge.

I said to ADONAI, "You are my Lord; I have nothing good outside of you."

For the leader. By David the servant of ADONAI, who addressed the words of this song to ADONAI on the day when ADONAI delivered him from the power of all his enemies, including from the power of Sha'ul. He said: "I love you, ADONAI, my strength!

"ADONAI is my Rock, my fortress and deliverer, my God, my Rock, in whom I find shelter, my shield, the power that saves me, my stronghold.