Bible Verses About Faith

For I have known that this shall fall out to me for salvation, through your supplication, and the supply of the Spirit of Christ Jesus,

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

for to me to live is Christ, and to die gain.

and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;

be striving the good strife of the faith, be laying hold on the life age-during, to which also thou wast called, and didst profess the right profession before many witnesses.

Stedfast is the word: For if we died together--we also shall live together;

if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny him , he also shall deny us;

if we are not stedfast, he remaineth stedfast; to deny himself he is not able.

the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of the righteousness that the Lord--the Righteous Judge--shall give to me in that day, and not only to me, but also to all those loving his manifestation.

We may fear, then, lest a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you may seem to have come short,

for we also are having good news proclaimed, even as they, but the word heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard,

for we do enter into the rest--we who did believe, as He said, `So I sware in My anger, If they shall enter into My rest--;' and yet the works were done from the foundation of the world,

for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh day thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

and in this place again, `If they shall enter into My rest--;'

since then, it remaineth for certain to enter into it, and those who did first hear good news entered not in because of unbelief--

again He doth limit a certain day, `To-day,' (in David saying, after so long a time,) as it hath been said, `To-day, if His voice ye may hear, ye may not harden your hearts,'

for if Joshua had given them rest, He would not concerning another day have spoken after these things;

there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own.

May we be diligent, then, to enter into that rest, that no one in the same example of the unbelief may fall,

and `the righteous by faith shall live,' and `if he may draw back, My soul hath no pleasure in him,'

and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

for in this were the elders testified of;