What Does the Bible Say About Disbelief?

Mark 9:24 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

2 Timothy 3:1-4 ESV / 28 helpful votes

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

Romans 8:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.

2 Timothy 3:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

Luke 11:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

2 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

Luke 1:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Inasmuch as many have undertaken to compile a narrative of the things that have been accomplished among us,

Psalm 33:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Shout for joy in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright.

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.

Romans 1:24-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Romans 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

John 17:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 7 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?

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,

2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

Luke 18:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

Deuteronomy 17:2-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant, and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden, and it is told you and you hear of it, then you shall inquire diligently, and if it is true and certain that such an abomination has been done in Israel, then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones.

Deuteronomy 8:11-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock, ...

Genesis 19:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

Matthew 24:37-39 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Psalm 22:1-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. ...

Exodus 24:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

1 Thessalonians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

1 Corinthians 6:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Luke 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”

38 Bible Verses about Disbelief

Mark 9:24 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:1-4 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 4:3-4 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 10:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 6:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:9-10 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 11:28 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 6:5 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 33:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:24-27 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 17:17 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 18:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 17:2-5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 8:11-18 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 19:1-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 1:21 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:37-39 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 22:1-10 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 24:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 17:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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

Luke 4:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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