Romans 4 v 20 – 25:
Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was
strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God
had power to do what he had promised. This is why "it was credited to him as
righteousness." The words "it was credited to him" were written not for him
alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness–for us who believe
in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death
for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
John 7 v 16 – 18:
Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. If
anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from
God or whether I speak on my own. He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor
for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of
truth; there is nothing false about him.
1 Corinthians 2 v 13 –15:
Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Were you baptized into the name
of Paul? I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and
Gaius, so no one can say that you were baptized into my name.
John 1 v 45 – 49:
Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in
the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote–Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Joseph." "Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?" Nathanael asked. "Come
and see," said Philip. When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, he said of him,
"Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is nothing false." "How do you know
me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus answered, "I saw you while you were still under the
fig tree before Philip called you." Then Nathanael declared, "Rabbi, you are the
Son of God; you are the King of Israel."
John 20 v 24 – 29:
Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when
Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he
said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where
the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it." A week
later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though
the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with
you!" Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out
your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe." Thomas said to
him, "My Lord and my God!" Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you
have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."
John 7 v 46:
"No one ever spoke the way this man does," the guards declared.
Exodus 4 v 1 – 9:
Moses answered, "What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, 'The
LORD did not appear to you'?" Then the LORD said to him, "What is that in your
hand?" "A staff," he replied. The LORD said, "Throw it on the ground." Moses
threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. Then the LORD
said to him, "Reach out your hand and take it by the tail." So Moses reached out
and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand. "This,"
said the LORD, "is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their
fathers-the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob-has appeared
to you." Then the LORD said, "Put your hand inside your cloak." So Moses put his
hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was leprous, like snow. "Now
put it back into your cloak," he said. So Moses put his hand back into his
cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.
Then the LORD said, "If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first
miraculous sign, they may believe the second. But if they do not believe these
two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry
ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground."
Numbers 11 v 21- 23:
But Moses said, "Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say,
'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!' Would they have enough if
flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the
fish in the sea were caught for them?" The LORD answered Moses, "Is the LORD'S
arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for
you."
Psalm 78 v 19 – 22:
They spoke against God, saying, "Can God spread a table in the desert? When he
struck the rock, water gushed out, and streams flowed abundantly. But can he
also give us food? Can he supply meat for his people?" When the LORD heard them,
he was very angry; his fire broke out against Jacob, and his wrath rose against
Israel, for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance.
Psalm 95 v 6 – 11:
Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; for he
is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care.
Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the desert, where your fathers tested and tried
me, though they had seen what I did. For forty years I was angry with that
generation; I said, "They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not
known my ways." So I declared on oath in my anger, "They shall never enter my
rest."
Isaiah 7 v 7 - 16:
Yet this is what the Sovereign LORD says: " 'It will not take place, it will not
happen, for the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only
Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people. The
head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah's son. If
you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.'" Again the LORD
spoke to Ahaz, "Ask the LORD your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths
or in the highest heights." But Ahaz said, "I will not ask; I will not put the
LORD to the test." Then Isaiah said, "Hear now, you house of David! Is it not
enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God also?
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will be with child
and will give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. He will eat curds and
honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right. But before
the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the
two kings you dread will be laid waste.
Jeremiah 5 v 12 – 14:
They have lied about the LORD; they said, "He will do nothing! No harm will come
to us; we will never see sword or famine. The prophets are but wind and the word
is not in them; so let what they say be done to them." Therefore this is what
the LORD God Almighty says: "Because the people have spoken these words, I will
make my words in your mouth a fire and these people the wood it consumes.
Malachi 1 v 2 –14:
"I have loved you," says the LORD. "But you ask, 'How have you loved us?' "Was
not Esau Jacob's brother?" the LORD says. "Yet I have loved Jacob, but Esau I
have hated, and I have turned his mountains into a wasteland and left his
inheritance to the desert jackals." Edom may say, "Though we have been crushed,
we will rebuild the ruins." But this is what the LORD Almighty says: "They may
build, but I will demolish. They will be called the Wicked Land, a people always
under the wrath of the LORD. You will see it with your own eyes and say, 'Great
is the LORD -even beyond the borders of Israel!' "A son honors his father, and a
servant his master. If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a
master, where is the respect due me?" says the LORD Almighty. "It is you, O
priests, who show contempt for my name. "But you ask, 'How have we shown
contempt for your name?' "You place defiled food on my altar. "But you ask, 'How
have we defiled you?' "By saying that the LORD'S table is contemptible. When you
bring blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? When you sacrifice
crippled or diseased animals, is that not wrong? Try offering them to your
governor! Would he be pleased with you? Would he accept you?" says the LORD
Almighty. "Now implore God to be gracious to us. With such offerings from your
hands, will he accept you?"-says the LORD Almighty. "Oh, that one of you would
shut the temple doors, so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I
am not pleased with you," says the LORD Almighty, "and I will accept no offering
from your hands. My name will be great among the nations, from the rising to the
setting of the sun. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to
my name, because my name will be great among the nations," says the LORD
Almighty. "But you profane it by saying of the Lord's table, 'It is defiled,'
and of its food, 'It is contemptible.' And you say, 'What a burden!' and you
sniff at it contemptuously," says the LORD Almighty. "When you bring injured,
crippled or diseased animals and offer them as sacrifices, should I accept them
from your hands?" says the LORD. "Cursed is the cheat who has an acceptable male
in his flock and vows to give it, but then sacrifices a blemished animal to the
Lord. For I am a great king," says the LORD Almighty, "and my name is to be
feared among the nations.
Matthew 10 v 14 – 15:
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your
feet when you leave that home or town. I tell you the truth, it will be more
bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
Matthew 11 v 15 – 24:
He who has ears, let him hear. "To what can I compare this generation? They are
like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: " 'We
played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge and you did not
mourn.' For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, 'He has a
demon.' The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Here is a
glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and "sinners." ' But wisdom
is proved right by her actions." Then Jesus began to denounce the cities in
which most of his miracles had been performed, because they did not repent. "Woe
to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in
you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in
sackcloth and ashes. But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon
on the day of judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up
to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths. If the miracles that were
performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this
day. But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of
judgment than for you."
Matthew 13 v 11 – 19:
He replied, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been
given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and he will have
an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.
This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though
hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of
Isaiah: " 'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever
seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become calloused; they
hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they
might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts
and turn, and I would heal them.' But blessed are your eyes because they see,
and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and
righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what
you hear but did not hear it. "Listen then to what the parable of the sower
means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand
it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is the
seed sown along the path.
Matthew 17 v 17 – 20:
"O unbelieving and perverse generation," Jesus replied, "how long shall I stay
with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me." Jesus
rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that
moment. Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, "Why couldn't we
drive it out?" He replied, "Because you have so little faith. I tell you the
truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this
mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible
for you."
Matthew 21 v 23 – 32:
Jesus entered the temple courts, and, while he was teaching, the chief priests
and the elders of the people came to him. "By what authority are you doing these
things?" they asked. "And who gave you this authority?" Jesus replied, "I will
also ask you one question. If you answer me, I will tell you by what authority I
am doing these things. John's baptism–where did it come from? Was it from
heaven, or from men?" They discussed it among themselves and said, "If we say,
'From heaven,' he will ask, 'Then why didn't you believe him?' But if we say,
'From men'–we are afraid of the people, for they all hold that John was a
prophet." So they answered Jesus, "We don't know." Then he said, "Neither will I
tell you by what authority I am doing these things. "What do you think? There
was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work
today in the vineyard.' " 'I will not,' he answered, but later he changed his
mind and went. "Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing.
He answered, 'I will, sir,' but he did not go. "Which of the two did what his
father wanted?" "The first," they answered. Jesus said to them, "I tell you the
truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God
ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you
did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even
after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.
Mark 6 v 1 – 6:
Jesus left there and went to his hometown, accompanied by his disciples. When
the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him
were amazed. "Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this
wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! Isn't this the
carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and
Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. Jesus
said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is
a prophet without honor." He could not do any miracles there, except lay his
hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their lack of
faith.
Mark 9 v 23 – 24:
" 'If you can'?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes."
Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my
unbelief!"
Mark 16 v 9 – 16:
When Jesus rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary
Magdalene, out of whom he had driven seven demons. She went and told those who
had been with him and who were mourning and weeping. When they heard that Jesus
was alive and that she had seen him, they did not believe it. Afterward Jesus
appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the
country. These returned and reported it to the rest; but they did not believe
them either. Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked
them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had
seen him after he had risen. He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach
the good news to all creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved,
but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
Luke 8 v 9 – 15:
His disciples asked him what this parable meant. He said, "The knowledge of the
secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in
parables, so that, " 'though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may
not understand.' "This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of
God. Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and
takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be
saved. Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they
hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of
testing they fall away. The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who
hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life's worries, riches and
pleasures, and they do not mature. But the seed on good soil stands for those
with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering
produce a crop.
Luke 10 v 16 – 24:
"He who listens to you listens to me; he who rejects you rejects me; but he who
rejects me rejects him who sent me." The seventy-two returned with joy and said,
"Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name." He replied, "I saw Satan fall
like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and
scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.
However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your
names are written in heaven." At that time Jesus, full of joy through the Holy
Spirit, said, "I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have
hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little
children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. "All things have been
committed to me by my Father. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and
no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses
to reveal him." Then he turned to his disciples and said privately, "Blessed are
the eyes that see what you see. For I tell you that many prophets and kings
wanted to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did
not hear it."
Luke 12 v 42 – 48:
The Lord answered, "Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master
puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper
time? It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he
returns. I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
But suppose the servant says to himself, 'My master is taking a long time in
coming,' and he then begins to beat the menservants and maidservants and to eat
and drink and get drunk. The master of that servant will come on a day when he
does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces
and assign him a place with the unbelievers. "That servant who knows his
master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will
be beaten with many blows. But the one who does not know and does things
deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been
given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with
much, much more will be asked.
Luke 14 v 16 – 24:
Jesus replied: "A certain man was preparing a great banquet and invited many
guests. At the time of the banquet he sent his servant to tell those who had
been invited, 'Come, for everything is now ready.' "But they all alike began to
make excuses. The first said, 'I have just bought a field, and I must go and see
it. Please excuse me.' "Another said, 'I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and
I'm on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.' "Still another said, 'I just
got married, so I can't come.' "The servant came back and reported this to his
master. Then the owner of the house became angry and ordered his servant, 'Go
out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the
crippled, the blind and the lame.' " 'Sir,' the servant said, 'what you ordered
has been done, but there is still room.' "Then the master told his servant, 'Go
out to the roads and country lanes and make them come in, so that my house will
be full. I tell you, not one of those men who were invited will get a taste of
my banquet.' "
Luke 16 v 27 – 31:
"He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my father's house, for I
have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this
place of torment.' "Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them
listen to them.' " 'No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead
goes to them, they will repent.' "He said to him, 'If they do not listen to
Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from
the dead.' "
Luke 18 v 8:
I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the
Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"
Luke 22 v 67:
"If you are the Christ," they said, "tell us."
Luke 24 v 25 – 26:
He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that
the prophets have spoken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and
then enter his glory?"
Luke 24 v 36 – 45:
While they were still talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and
said to them, "Peace be with you." They were startled and frightened, thinking
they saw a ghost. He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise
in your minds? Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a
ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have." When he had said this,
he showed them his hands and feet. And while they still did not believe it
because of joy and amazement, he asked them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"
They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43and he took it and ate it in their
presence. He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you:
Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the
Prophets and the Psalms." Then he opened their minds so they could understand
the Scriptures.
John 1 v 10 – 11:
He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did
not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not
receive him.
John 3 v 11 – 12:
I tell you the truth, we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have
seen, but still you people do not accept our testimony. I have spoken to you of
earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak of
heavenly things?
John 3 v 18:
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands
condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only
Son.
John 3 v 31- 32:
"The one who comes from above is above all; the one who is from the earth
belongs to the earth, and speaks as one from the earth. The one who comes from
heaven is above all. He testifies to what he has seen and heard, but no one
accepts his testimony."
John 3 v 36:
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will
not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."
John 4 v 48:
"Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will
never believe."
John 5 v 38 – 40:
nor does his word dwell in you, for you do not believe the one he sent. You
diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess
eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to
come to me to have life.
John 5 v 42 – 47:
But I know you. I know that you do not have the love of God in your hearts. I
have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else
comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe if you accept
praise from one another, yet make no effort to obtain the praise that comes from
the only God? "But do not think I will accuse you before the Father. Your
accuser is Moses, on whom your hopes are set. If you believed Moses, you would
believe me, for he wrote about me. But since you do not believe what he wrote,
how are you going to believe what I say?"
John 6 v 36:
But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.
John 6 v 60 – 71:
On hearing it, many of his disciples said, "This is a hard teaching. Who can
accept it?" Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to
them, "Does this offend you? What if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he
was before! The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for nothing. The words I
have spoken to you are spirit and they are life. Yet there are some of you who
do not believe." For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not
believe and who would betray him. He went on to say, "This is why I told you
that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled him." From this time
many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. "You do not want
to leave too, do you?" Jesus asked the Twelve. Simon Peter answered him, "Lord,
to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69We believe and know
that you are the Holy One of God." Then Jesus replied, "Have I not chosen you,
the Twelve? Yet one of you is a devil!"
John 8 v 24:
I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the
one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins."
John 8 v 45- 47:
Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! Can any of you prove me
guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don't you believe me? He who
belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do
not belong to God."
John 8 v 52 – 53:
At this the Jews exclaimed, "Now we know that you are demon possessed! Abraham
died and so did the prophets, yet you say that if anyone keeps your word, he
will never taste death. Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so
did the prophets. Who do you think you are?"
John 10 v 25 – 26:
Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my
Father's name speak for me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep.
John 10 v 37 - 38:
What about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the
world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'?
Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does.
John 12 v 37 – 40:
Even after Jesus had done all these miraculous signs in their presence, they
still would not believe in him. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the
prophet: "Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord
been revealed?" For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says
elsewhere: "He has blinded their eyes and deadened their hearts, so they can
neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn–and I
would heal them."
John 12 v 47 – 48:
"As for the person who hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge
him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a judge for
the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; that very word which I
spoke will condemn him at the last day.
John 14 v 15 – 17:
"If you love me, you will obey what I command. And I will ask the Father, and he
will give you another Counselor to be with you forever– the Spirit of truth. The
world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know
him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
John 16 v 8 – 9:
When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and
righteousness and judgment: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me.
Acts 13 v 39 – 41:
Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be
justified from by the law of Moses. Take care that what the prophets have said
does not happen to you: " 'Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish, for I am going
to do something in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told
you.'
Acts 19 v 9:
But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly maligned
the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions
daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.
Acts 22 v 18:
And saw the Lord speaking. 'Quick!' he said to me. 'Leave Jerusalem immediately,
because they will not accept your testimony about me.'
Romans 1 v 18:
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and
wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
Romans 3 v 3:
What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's
faithfulness?
Romans 9 v 31 – 32:
But Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. Why not?
Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled
over the "stumbling stone."
Romans 10 v 6 –21:
But the righteousness that is by faith says: "Do not say in your heart, 'Who
will ascend into heaven?'" that is, to bring Christ down) "or 'Who will descend
into the deep?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). But what does it
say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the
word of faith we are proclaiming: That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is
Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be
saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is
with your mouth that you confess and are saved. As the Scripture says, "Anyone
who trusts in him will never be put to shame." For there is no difference
between Jew and Gentile–the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who
call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they
believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without
someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it
is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" But not
all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has
believed our message?" Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and
the message is heard through the word of Christ. But I ask: Did they not hear?
Of course they did: "Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to
the ends of the world." Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses
says, "I will make you envious by those who are not a nation; I will make you
angry by a nation that has no understanding." And Isaiah boldly says, "I was
found by those who did not seek me; I revealed myself to those who did not ask
for me." But concerning Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands
to a disobedient and obstinate people."
Romans 11 v 7 – 10:
What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did.
The others were hardened, as it is written: "God gave them a spirit of stupor,
eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this
very day." And David says: May their table become a snare and a trap, a
stumbling block and a retribution for them. May their eyes be darkened so they
cannot see, and their backs be bent forever."
Romans 11 v 20:
Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith.
Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
Romans 14 v 23:
But the man who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not
from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
1 Corinthians 1 v 18:
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to
us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1 v 22- 23:
Demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ
crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles.
2 Corinthians 6 v 14 – 16:
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and
wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What
harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common
with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?
For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will live with them
and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people."
2 Thessalonians 2 v 10 – 12:
And in every sort of evil that deceives those who are perishing. They perish
because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God
sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all
will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in
wickedness.
2 Thessalonians 3 v 2:
And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not everyone has
faith.
1 Timothy 1 v 13:
Even though I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent man, I was
shown mercy because I acted in ignorance and unbelief.
2 Timothy 2 v 13:
if we are faithless, he will remain faithful, for he cannot disown himself.
Titus 1 v 15 – 16:
To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not
believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are
corrupted. They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are
detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.
Hebrews 3 v 12:
See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns
away from the living God.
Hebrews 3 v 16 – 19:
Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of
Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who
sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And to whom did God swear that they
would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they
were not able to enter, because of their unbelief.
Hebrews 4 v 1 – 6:
Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be
careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. For we also have
had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was
of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith. Now
we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on
oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.' " And yet his work has been
finished since the creation of the world. For somewhere he has spoken about the
seventh day in these words: "And on the seventh day God rested from all his
work." And again in the passage above he says, "They shall never enter my rest."
It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the
gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience.
Hebrews 11 v 6:
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to
him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek
him.
Hebrews 11 v 31:
By faith the prostitute Rahab, because she welcomed the spies, was not killed
with those who were disobedient.
Hebrews 12 v 25:
See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when
they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn
away from him who warns us from heaven?
James 1 v 6 –8:
But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a
wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will
receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he
does.
1 Peter 2 v 4 – 8:
As you come to him, the living Stone–rejected by men but chosen by God and
precious to him– you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual
house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God
through Jesus Christ. For in Scripture it says: "See, I lay a stone in Zion, a
chosen and precious cornerstone, and the one who trusts in him will never be put
to shame." Now to you who believe, this stone is precious. But to those who do
not believe, "The stone the builders rejected has become the capstone," and, "A
stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall." They stumble
because they disobey the message–which is also what they were destined for.
2 Peter 3 v 3 – 7:
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come,
scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, "Where is this
'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has
since the beginning of creation." But they deliberately forget that long ago by
God's word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by
water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. By
the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept
for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
1 John 2 v 22 – 23:
Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man
is the antichrist–he denies the Father and the Son. No one who denies the Son
has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.
1 John 4 v 1 – 6:
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether
they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges
that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, but every spirit that does
not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,
which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world. You, dear
children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is
greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore
speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are
from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does
not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of truth and the spirit of
falsehood.
1 John 5 v 10 – 12:
Anyone who believes in the Son of God has this testimony in his heart. Anyone
who does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because he has not
believed the testimony God has given about his Son. And this is the testimony:
God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son
has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
Jude v 5:
Though you already know all this, I want to remind you that the Lord delivered
his people out of Egypt, but later destroyed those who did not believe.
Revelation 21 v 8:
"But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually
immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars–their place
will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
