100 Bible Verses about Trustworthiness

Colossians 3:9-10 ESV / 176 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.

Proverbs 11:13 ESV / 147 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 6:16-19 ESV / 104 helpful votes

There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.

Luke 16:9-15 ESV / 98 helpful votes

And I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth, so that when it fails they may receive you into the eternal dwellings. “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. If then you have not been faithful in the unrighteous wealth, who will entrust to you the true riches? And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own? No servant 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.” ...

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 95 helpful votes

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

John 17:17 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 72 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.

John 14:1 ESV / 70 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Isaiah 26:3 ESV / 66 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.

Psalm 56:3 ESV / 66 helpful votes

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

Psalm 118:8 ESV / 63 helpful votes

It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.

Matthew 15:18-20 ESV / 61 helpful votes

But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person. But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile anyone.”

Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV / 60 helpful votes

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

John 14:6 ESV / 56 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Numbers 23:19 ESV / 55 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?

Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 54 helpful votes

The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

Psalm 28:7 ESV / 54 helpful votes

The Lord is my strength and my shield; in him my heart trusts, and I am helped; my heart exults, and with my song I give thanks to him.

Psalm 37:3 ESV / 53 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness.

Exodus 20:16 ESV / 53 helpful votes

“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Psalm 56:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes

In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Romans 12:17-21 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Repay no one evil for evil, but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.” To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Psalm 9:10 ESV / 49 helpful votes

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

1 Kings 8:56 ESV / 48 helpful votes

“Blessed be the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel, according to all that he promised. Not one word has failed of all his good promise, which he spoke by Moses his servant.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 47 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.”

Luke 8:15 ESV / 45 helpful votes

As for that in the good soil, they are those who, hearing the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patience.

Nahum 1:7 ESV / 43 helpful votes

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

Proverbs 16:20 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.

Psalm 27:14 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!

Romans 15:13 ESV / 41 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 1:6 ESV / 40 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.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 40 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Psalm 143:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.

Psalm 20:7 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

2 Peter 1:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes

For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 38 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 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. 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. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

1 John 5:14 ESV / 37 helpful votes

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

John 8:43-47 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

Luke 16:10 ESV / 37 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.

Isaiah 43:2 ESV / 37 helpful votes

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

Proverbs 16:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

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

Psalm 37:5-6 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.

Hebrews 13:6 ESV / 35 helpful votes

So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Matthew 6:26 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?

Psalm 37:5 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act.

Psalm 40:4 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!

Psalm 37:23 ESV / 34 helpful votes

The steps of a man are established by the Lord, when he delights in his way;

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Revelation 21:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 32 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 4:15-16 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Psalm 91:1-2 ESV / 32 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”

Psalm 62:7 ESV / 32 helpful votes

On God rests my salvation and my glory; my mighty rock, my refuge is God.

Psalm 27:13 ESV / 32 helpful votes

I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living!

Mark 11:23 ESV / 31 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 13:5-6 ESV / 31 helpful votes

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord, because he has dealt bountifully with me.

2 Samuel 7:28 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And now, O Lord God, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.

Psalm 13:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.

Psalm 121:3 ESV / 29 helpful votes

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

Psalm 56:3-4 ESV / 29 helpful votes

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I shall not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

Psalm 31:19 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind!

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 28 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. ...

Hebrews 3:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes

For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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

Psalm 145:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 27 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.

Psalm 31:14 ESV / 27 helpful votes

But I trust in you, O Lord; I say, “You are my God.”

1 John 4:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Romans 8:25 ESV / 26 helpful votes

But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

Isaiah 26:3-4 ESV / 26 helpful votes

You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.

Psalm 33:22 ESV / 26 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 25 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.

Proverbs 3:31-32 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways, for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.

Psalm 112:7 ESV / 25 helpful votes

He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.

Psalm 73:25 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.

Psalm 62:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us. Selah

Psalm 27:3 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

Ruth 1:16 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.

Titus 2:7 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity,

Mark 11:24 ESV / 23 helpful votes

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

Daniel 6:23 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that Daniel be taken up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

Philippians 4:11 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Psalm 20:1-27:14 ESV / 22 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you! May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion! May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions! ...

2 Kings 12:15 ESV / 22 helpful votes

And they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly.

1 Corinthians 5:1-7:40 ESV / 21 helpful votes

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father's wife. And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord. ...

John 3:21-22 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God.” After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.

Matthew 21:1-46 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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 6:1-26:75 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

Isaiah 54:10 ESV / 21 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.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 121:1-123:4 ESV / 21 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 119:105 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Psalm 111:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes

The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy;

Psalm 62:1-66:20 ESV / 21 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. For God alone my soul waits in silence; from him comes my salvation. He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken. How long will all of you attack a man to batter him, like a leaning wall, a tottering fence? They only plan to thrust him down from his high position. They take pleasure in falsehood. They bless with their mouths, but inwardly they curse. Selah For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. ...

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 20 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Job 13:15 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face.

Hebrews 6:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes

So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.

John 10:35 ESV / 19 helpful votes

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—

Proverbs 30:5 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

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