100 Bible Verses about Losing Faith

Luke 8:13 ESV / 333 helpful votes

And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.

Hebrews 10:35-39 ESV / 284 helpful votes

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. For, “Yet a little while, and the coming one will come and will not delay; but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 195 helpful votes

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. ...

John 3:16 ESV / 190 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.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 170 helpful votes

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

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 151 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?

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 143 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 140 helpful votes

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.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 134 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 111 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Mark 16:16 ESV / 109 helpful votes

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

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 106 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 101 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.

1 John 5:4 ESV / 96 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 89 helpful votes

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.

Romans 15:13 ESV / 86 helpful votes

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.

James 2:5 ESV / 85 helpful votes

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 85 helpful votes

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.

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 77 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.”

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 76 helpful votes

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.”

Romans 10:17 ESV / 71 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 6:16 ESV / 70 helpful votes

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 / 67 helpful votes

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

Romans 1:17 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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

Mark 10:52 ESV / 63 helpful votes

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.

1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 61 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.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 60 helpful votes

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.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 59 helpful votes

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.

2 Timothy 3:2 ESV / 58 helpful votes

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 58 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

James 1:6 ESV / 57 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 21:21 ESV / 56 helpful votes

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.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 56 helpful votes

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.

James 1:3 ESV / 55 helpful votes

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

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 53 helpful votes

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

Romans 8:28 ESV / 53 helpful votes

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 3:28 ESV / 52 helpful votes

For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Hebrews 11:13 ESV / 51 helpful votes

These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

1 Timothy 6:11 ESV / 50 helpful votes

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

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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.

Luke 18:1-8 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’ For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.’” ...

Luke 17:5 ESV / 49 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 24:16 ESV / 49 helpful votes

“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Matthew 15:28 ESV / 46 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 46 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 45 helpful votes

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

James 2:24 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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

Romans 10:9 ESV / 42 helpful votes

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.

Isaiah 45:7 ESV / 42 helpful votes

I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 38 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 11:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For by it the people of old received their commendation.

1 Corinthians 2:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

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

Matthew 23:17 ESV / 37 helpful votes

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?

Matthew 8:26 ESV / 37 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.

1 Peter 1:3 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Titus 1:2 ESV / 35 helpful votes

In hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began

1 Timothy 1:19 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Holding faith and a good conscience. By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith,

2 Corinthians 4:13-14 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak, knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.

1 Corinthians 3:19 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”

Matthew 9:22 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Jesus turned, and seeing her he said, “Take heart, daughter; your faith has made you well.” And instantly the woman was made well.

Mark 9:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”

Matthew 14:28 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And Peter answered him, “Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the water.”

Job 1:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was blameless and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

1 Peter 5:9 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Resist him, firm in your faith, knowing that the same kinds of suffering are being experienced by your brotherhood throughout the world.

1 Peter 1:7 ESV / 33 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 11:17 ESV / 33 helpful votes

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son,

1 John 3:20 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.

2 Corinthians 1:24 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we work with you for your joy, for you stand firm in your faith.

Mark 9:23 ESV / 32 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 32:27 ESV / 32 helpful votes

“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?

Genesis 6:5-6 ESV / 32 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. And the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him to his heart.

Revelation 2:19 ESV / 31 helpful votes

“‘I know your works, your love and faith and service and patient endurance, and that your latter works exceed the first.

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

Acts 22:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’

Matthew 16:16 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

2 Peter 1:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

1 Peter 1:21 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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 1:20-21 ESV / 30 helpful votes

He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you 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 Thessalonians 1:3 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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

James 2:18 ESV / 29 helpful votes

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.

Acts 3:16 ESV / 29 helpful votes

And his name—by faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.

Matthew 21:22 ESV / 29 helpful votes

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

James 2:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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

Colossians 1:23 ESV / 28 helpful votes

If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, became a minister.

Romans 1:16-17 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”

2 Peter 2:1-22 ESV / 27 helpful votes

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; ...

1 Peter 1:5 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.

James 2:22 ESV / 27 helpful votes

You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works;

Hebrews 4:2 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

Romans 3:3 ESV / 27 helpful votes

What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God?

Colossians 3:22 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.

John 11:40 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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 / 26 helpful votes

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 5:46 ESV / 26 helpful votes

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote of me.

Matthew 21:21-22 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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

Psalm 23:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

Hebrews 10:38 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

Romans 15:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Hebrews 11:11 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

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