Bible Verses About Faith

By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with peace.

And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:

Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,

Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners.

Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection.

And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands and prisons.

They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:

Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth.

And all these, being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise:

Let your manners be without covetousness, contented with such things as you have. For he hath said: I will not leave thee: neither will I forsake thee.

So that we may confidently say: The Lord is my helper: I will not fear what man shall do to me.

My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, with respect of persons.

For if there shall come into your assembly a man having a golden ring, in fine apparel; and there shall come in also a poor man in mean attire:

And you have respect to him that is clothed with the fine apparel and shall say to him: Sit thou here well: but say to the poor man: Stand thou there, or: Sit under my footstool:

Do you not judge within yourselves, and are become judges of unjust thoughts?

Hearken, my dearest brethren: Hath not God chosen the poor in this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which God hath promised to them that love him?

But you have dishonoured the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you by might? And do not they draw you before the judgment seats?

Do not they blaspheme the good name that is invoked upon you?

If then you fulfil the royal law, according to the scriptures: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself; you do well.

But if you have respect to persons, you commit sin, being reproved by the law as transgressors.

And whosoever shall keep the whole law, but offend in one point, is become guilty of all.

For he that said: Thou shalt not commit adultery, said also: Thou shalt not kill. Now if thou do not commit adultery, but shalt kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

So speak ye and so do, as being to be judged by the law of liberty.

For judgment without mercy to him that hath not done mercy. And mercy exalteth itself above judgment.

What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?