100 Bible Verses about Being Reliable

Psalm 33:4 ESV / 427 helpful votes

For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.

Proverbs 11:13 ESV / 422 helpful votes

Whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets, but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing covered.

Joshua 23:14 ESV / 387 helpful votes

“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.

2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV / 370 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 369 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Proverbs 11:3 ESV / 361 helpful votes

The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them.

Hebrews 10:23 ESV / 356 helpful votes

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 354 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Revelation 1:8 ESV / 353 helpful votes

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 353 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 352 helpful votes

But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 352 helpful votes

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 352 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 352 helpful votes

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Proverbs 19:22 ESV / 352 helpful votes

What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar.

Psalm 138:8 ESV / 352 helpful votes

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Psalm 103:17-18 ESV / 352 helpful votes

But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 352 helpful votes

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

1 Chronicles 16:34 ESV / 352 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever!

Lamentations 5:19 ESV / 351 helpful votes

But you, O Lord, reign forever; your throne endures to all generations.

Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV / 351 helpful votes

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Isaiah 25:1 ESV / 351 helpful votes

O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

Psalm 145:18 ESV / 351 helpful votes

The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Psalm 121:3 ESV / 351 helpful votes

He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.

Psalm 86:5 ESV / 351 helpful votes

For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.

Psalm 59:16 ESV / 351 helpful votes

But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Psalm 37:28 ESV / 351 helpful votes

For the Lord loves justice; he will not forsake his saints. They are preserved forever, but the children of the wicked shall be cut off.

Psalm 33:18 ESV / 351 helpful votes

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love,

Luke 16:10 ESV / 335 helpful votes

“One who is faithful in a very little is also faithful in much, and one who is dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much.

Psalm 107:9 ESV / 331 helpful votes

For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things.

Lamentations 3:2 ESV / 314 helpful votes

He has driven and brought me into darkness without any light;

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 303 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 295 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Habakkuk 2:4 ESV / 294 helpful votes

“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 294 helpful votes

For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you.

Psalm 33:22 ESV / 294 helpful votes

Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.

James 1:17 ESV / 293 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

1 Thessalonians 5:24 ESV / 293 helpful votes

He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.

Deuteronomy 31:8 ESV / 293 helpful votes

It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

John 16:24 ESV / 292 helpful votes

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Matthew 24:35 ESV / 292 helpful votes

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Matthew 19:18-19 ESV / 292 helpful votes

He said to him, “Which ones?” And Jesus said, “You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Joel 2:13 ESV / 292 helpful votes

And rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.

Isaiah 46:4 ESV / 292 helpful votes

Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save.

Proverbs 30:8 ESV / 292 helpful votes

Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me,

Psalm 145:17 ESV / 292 helpful votes

The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.

Psalm 94:18 ESV / 292 helpful votes

When I thought, “My foot slips,” your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.

Psalm 62:2 ESV / 292 helpful votes

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.

1 Kings 8:57 ESV / 292 helpful votes

The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers. May he not leave us or forsake us,

Matthew 24:3 ESV / 291 helpful votes

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

Matthew 19:2 ESV / 291 helpful votes

And large crowds followed him, and he healed them there.

Zechariah 1:3 ESV / 291 helpful votes

Therefore say to them, Thus declares the Lord of hosts: Return to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts.

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 291 helpful votes

God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?

Psalm 97:10 ESV / 289 helpful votes

O you who love the Lord, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

1 Timothy 2:11 ESV / 288 helpful votes

Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness.

1 Corinthians 10:17-18 ESV / 288 helpful votes

Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?

Ecclesiastes 5:4 ESV / 288 helpful votes

When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.

Psalm 103:3 ESV / 266 helpful votes

Who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases,

Psalm 86:3 ESV / 266 helpful votes

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all the day.

Proverbs 14:23 ESV / 260 helpful votes

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.

Proverbs 4:25 ESV / 259 helpful votes

Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.

Psalm 91:4 ESV / 259 helpful votes

He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.

Psalm 33:5 ESV / 259 helpful votes

He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the Lord.

1 Samuel 22:2 ESV / 257 helpful votes

And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 255 helpful votes

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

1 Thessalonians 5:3 ESV / 255 helpful votes

While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

1 Corinthians 10:2 ESV / 255 helpful votes

And all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea,

John 16:2 ESV / 255 helpful votes

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Matthew 25:21-22 ESV / 255 helpful votes

His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’

Matthew 21:22-23 ESV / 255 helpful votes

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” And when he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came up to him as he was teaching, and said, “By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave you this authority?”

Habakkuk 2:2 ESV / 255 helpful votes

And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.

Proverbs 30:2 ESV / 255 helpful votes

Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

Proverbs 19:2 ESV / 255 helpful votes

Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Matthew 5:37 ESV / 246 helpful votes

Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.

Proverbs 11:1-13:25 ESV / 244 helpful votes

A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight. When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. The integrity of the upright guides them, but the crookedness of the treacherous destroys them. Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness. ...

Revelation 1:1-8:13 ESV / 243 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

1 Thessalonians 3:1-13 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Therefore when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left behind at Athens alone, and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith, that no one be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves know that we are destined for this. For when we were with you, we kept telling you beforehand that we were to suffer affliction, just as it has come to pass, and just as you know. For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to learn about your faith, for fear that somehow the tempter had tempted you and our labor would be in vain. ...

1 Corinthians 1:1-9:27 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...

Romans 10:1-11:36 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them. ...

John 14:1-18:40 ESV / 243 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

Amos 3:1-7:17 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. “Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet? Does a lion roar in the forest, when he has no prey? Does a young lion cry out from his den, if he has taken nothing? Does a bird fall in a snare on the earth, when there is no trap for it? Does a snare spring up from the ground, when it has taken nothing? ...

Ezekiel 12:1-28:26 ESV / 243 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house. As for you, son of man, prepare for yourself an exile's baggage, and go into exile by day in their sight. You shall go like an exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand, though they are a rebellious house. You shall bring out your baggage by day in their sight, as baggage for exile, and you shall go out yourself at evening in their sight, as those do who must go into exile. In their sight dig through the wall, and bring your baggage out through it. ...

Psalm 86:11 ESV / 240 helpful votes

Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; unite my heart to fear your name.

Psalm 107:1-109:31 ESV / 239 helpful votes

Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever! Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in; hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 238 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 237 helpful votes

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Proverbs 4:2 ESV / 230 helpful votes

For I give you good precepts; do not forsake my teaching.

Proverbs 14:1-15:33 ESV / 226 helpful votes

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down. Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them. Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. ...

Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 220 helpful votes

Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Psalm 121:1-123:4 ESV / 220 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. ...

Psalm 145:2 ESV / 210 helpful votes

Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever.

Psalm 138:2 ESV / 207 helpful votes

I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word.

Psalm 59:2 ESV / 205 helpful votes

Deliver me from those who work evil, and save me from bloodthirsty men.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 197 helpful votes

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Psalm 40:11 ESV / 196 helpful votes

As for you, O Lord, you will not restrain your mercy from me; your steadfast love and your faithfulness will ever preserve me!

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 193 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

1 Corinthians 4:2-4 ESV / 190 helpful votes

Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. For I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.

2 Samuel 7:13-14 ESV / 185 helpful votes

He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,

Proverbs 14:2 ESV / 184 helpful votes

Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord, but he who is devious in his ways despises him.

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 165 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

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