100 Bible Verses about Jesus Telling People To Have Faith

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

John 3:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Hebrews 12:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Matthew 21:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”

1 John 5:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

2 Timothy 4:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Romans 1:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

John 1:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Mark 11:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

James 2:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

James 1:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind.

James 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 6:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;

1 Corinthians 16:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

1 Corinthians 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

Romans 12:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

John 6:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

John 3:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.

Luke 17:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

Luke 17:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”

Mark 11:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Mark 11:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.

Mark 11:22-24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Mark 10:52 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your faith has made you well.” And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way.

Mark 9:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”

Matthew 15:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.

Habakkuk 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Revelation 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

1 John 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.

1 Peter 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

1 Peter 1:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

1 Peter 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 1:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

James 2:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

James 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

James 2:14-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...

James 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

James 1:5-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Hebrews 11:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By faith Sarah herself received power to conceive, even when she was past the age, since she considered him faithful who had promised.

Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 10:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

2 Thessalonians 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Ephesians 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

Ephesians 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Romans 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Romans 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Romans 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

Acts 26:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

John 20:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

John 14:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

John 14:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.

John 11:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

John 11:25-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”

John 8:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 7:38 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”

John 6:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 5:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 5:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 17:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him,

Luke 7:50 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Mark 16:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

Mark 11:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples

Matthew 25:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.’

Matthew 21:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

Matthew 21:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.”

Matthew 21:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’” ...

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Isaiah 30:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.” But you were unwilling,