DOUBTING

Passages on this topic · 143

• Genesis 12:12

  It will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ They will kill me, but they will save you alive.

• Genesis 12:13

  Please say that you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that my soul may live because of you.”

• Genesis 15:8

  He said, “Lord Yahweh, how will I know that I will inherit it?”

• Genesis 18:12

  Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

• Genesis 18:13

  Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’

• Genesis 18:14

  Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

• Genesis 19:30

  Lot went up out of Zoar, and lived in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he was afraid to live in Zoar. He lived in a cave with his two daughters.

• Genesis 20:2

  Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

• Genesis 20:11

  Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

• Genesis 26:7

  The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

• Exodus 3:11

  Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

• Exodus 4:1

  Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’”

• Exodus 4:10

  Moses said to Yahweh, “O Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before now, nor since you have spoken to your servant; for I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue.”

• Exodus 4:13

  He said, “Oh, Lord, please send someone else.”

• Exodus 5:22

  Moses returned to Yahweh, and said, “Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it that you have sent me?

• Exodus 5:23

  For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; and you have not rescued your people at all.”

• Exodus 6:12

  Moses spoke before Yahweh, saying, “Behold, the children of Israel haven’t listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, who am of uncircumcised lips?”

• Exodus 14:10

  When Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

• Exodus 14:11

  They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

• Exodus 14:12

  Isn’t this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, ‘Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

• Exodus 14:15

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

• Numbers 11:21

  Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, ‘I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month.’

• Numbers 11:22

  Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

• Judges 6:13

  Gideon said to him, “Oh, my lord, if Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wondrous works which our fathers told us of, saying, ‘Didn’t Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?’ But now Yahweh has cast us off, and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

• Judges 6:15

  He said to him, “O Lord, how shall I save Israel? Behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

• 1 Samuel 16:1

  Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”

• 1 Samuel 16:2

  Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” Yahweh said, “Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.

• 1 Samuel 17:11

  When Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

• 1 Samuel 17:24

  All the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled from him, and were terrified.

• 1 Samuel 22:3

  David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me.”

• 1 Samuel 22:4

  He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

• 1 Kings 18:7

  As Obadiah was on the way, behold, Elijah met him. He recognized him, and fell on his face, and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?”

• 1 Kings 18:8

  He answered him, “It is I. Go, tell your lord, ‘Behold, Elijah is here!’”

• 1 Kings 18:9

  He said, “How have I sinned, that you would deliver your servant into the hand of Ahab, to kill me?

• 1 Kings 18:10

  As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation, that they didn’t find you.

• 1 Kings 18:11

  Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’

• 1 Kings 18:12

  It will happen, as soon as I leave you, that Yahweh’s Spirit will carry you I don’t know where; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he can’t find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared Yahweh from my youth.

• 1 Kings 18:13

  Wasn’t it told my lord what I did when Jezebel killed Yahweh’s prophets, how I hid one hundred men of Yahweh’s prophets with fifty to a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

• 1 Kings 18:14

  Now you say, ‘Go, tell your lord, “Behold, Elijah is here”.’ He will kill me.”

• 1 Kings 19:13

  When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle, went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. Behold, a voice came to him, and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

• 1 Kings 19:14

  He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

• 1 Kings 19:15

  Yahweh said to him, “Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. When you arrive, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.

• 1 Kings 19:16

  Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.

• 1 Kings 19:17

  He who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.

• 1 Kings 19:18

  Yet I reserved seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which has not kissed him.”

• 2 Kings 13:18

  He said, “Take the arrows”; and he took them. He said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground”; and he struck three times, and stopped.

• 2 Kings 13:19

  The man of God was angry with him, and said, “You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck Syria until you had consumed it; whereas now you will strike Syria just three times.”

• Job 4:3

  Behold, you have instructed many, you have strengthened the weak hands.

• Job 4:4

  Your words have supported him who was falling, You have made firm the feeble knees.

• Job 4:5

  But now it has come to you, and you faint. It touches you, and you are troubled.

• Job 4:6

  Isn’t your piety your confidence? Isn’t the integrity of your ways your hope?

• Job 9:16

  If I had called, and he had answered me, yet I wouldn’t believe that he listened to my voice.

• Job 9:17

  For he breaks me with a storm, and multiplies my wounds without cause.

• Job 9:18

  He will not allow me to catch my breath, but fills me with bitterness.

• Job 9:19

  If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’

• Job 9:20

  Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

• Job 9:21

  I am blameless. I don’t respect myself. I despise my life.

• Job 9:22

  “It is all the same. Therefore I say he destroys the blameless and the wicked.

• Job 9:23

  If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

• Job 23:15

  Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.

• Job 23:16

  For God has made my heart faint. The Almighty has terrified me.

• Job 23:17

  Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

• Job 30:20

  I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

• Job 30:21

  You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

• Psalms 22:2

  My God, I cry in the daytime, but you don’t answer; in the night season, and am not silent.

• Psalms 31:22

  As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.

• Psalms 42:5

  Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

• Psalms 42:6

  My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.

• Psalms 49:5

  Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels surrounds me?

• Psalms 73:13

  Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,

• Psalms 73:14

  For all day long I have been plagued, and punished every morning.

• Psalms 73:15

  If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

• Psalms 73:16

  When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

• Psalms 73:17

  Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

• Psalms 77:3

  I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

• Psalms 77:7

  “Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

• Psalms 77:8

  Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

• Psalms 77:9

  Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.

• Proverbs 24:10

  If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.

• Isaiah 40:27

  Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

• Isaiah 40:28

  Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.

• Isaiah 49:14

  But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

• Isaiah 49:15

  “Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!

• Isaiah 50:2

  Why, when I came, was there no one? when I called, why was there no one to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can’t redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea. I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

• Jeremiah 1:6

  Then I said, “Ah, Lord Yahweh! Behold, I don’t know how to speak; for I am a child.”

• Jeremiah 8:18

  Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! My heart is faint within me.

• Jeremiah 15:18

  Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

• Jeremiah 32:24

  “Behold, the mounds, they have come to the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence; and what you have spoken has happened; and behold, you see it.

• Jeremiah 32:25

  You have said to me, Lord Yahweh, ‘Buy the field for money, and call witnesses;’ whereas the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.”

• Jeremiah 45:3

  ‘You said, “Woe is me now! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain! I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.”’

• Lamentations 3:8

  Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

• Lamentations 3:17

  You have removed my soul far off from peace; I forgot prosperity.

• Lamentations 3:18

  I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”

• Lamentations 5:20

  Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?

• Hosea 10:3

  Surely now they will say, “We have no king; for we don’t fear Yahweh; and the king, what can he do for us?”

• Matthew 8:23

  When he got into a boat, his disciples followed him.

• Matthew 8:24

  Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep.

• Matthew 8:25

  They came to him, and woke him up, saying, “Save us, Lord! We are dying!”

• Matthew 8:26

  He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

• Matthew 8:27

  The men marveled, saying, “What kind of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?”

• Matthew 11:2

  Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

• Matthew 11:3

  and said to him, “Are you he who comes, or should we look for another?”

• Matthew 14:29

  He said, “Come!” Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus.

• Matthew 14:30

  But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”

• Matthew 14:31

  Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

• Matthew 17:14

  When they came to the multitude, a man came to him, kneeling down to him, and saying,

• Matthew 17:15

  “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic, and suffers grievously; for he often falls into the fire, and often into the water.

• Matthew 17:16

  So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”

• Matthew 17:17

  Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation! How long will I be with you? How long will I bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

• Matthew 17:18

  Jesus rebuked him, the demon went out of him, and the boy was cured from that hour.

• Matthew 17:19

  Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”

• Matthew 17:20

  He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

• Matthew 17:21

  But this kind doesn’t go out except by prayer and fasting.”

• Matthew 28:17

  When they saw him, they bowed down to him, but some doubted.

• Mark 4:38

  He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we are dying?”

• Mark 4:40

  He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? How is it that you have no faith?”

• Mark 9:14

  Coming to the disciples, he saw a great multitude around them, and scribes questioning them.

• Mark 9:15

  Immediately all the multitude, when they saw him, were greatly amazed, and running to him greeted him.

• Mark 9:16

  He asked the scribes, “What are you asking them?”

• Mark 9:17

  One of the multitude answered, “Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;

• Mark 9:18

  and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”

• Mark 9:19

  He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”

• Mark 9:20

  They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.

• Mark 9:21

  He asked his father, “How long has it been since this has come to him?” He said, “From childhood.

• Mark 9:22

  Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”

• Mark 9:23

  Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

• Mark 9:24

  Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

• Mark 9:25

  When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!”

• Mark 9:26

  Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, “He is dead.”

• Mark 9:27

  But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

• Mark 9:28

  When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

• Mark 9:29

  He said to them, “This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting.”

• Mark 16:10

  She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept.

• Mark 16:11

  When they heard that he was alive, and had been seen by her, they disbelieved.

• Luke 8:25

  He said to them, “Where is your faith?” Being afraid they marveled, saying to one another, “Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?”

• Luke 9:40

  I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.”

• John 14:8

  Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

• John 14:9

  Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you such a long time, and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father. How do you say, ‘Show us the Father?’

• John 14:10

  Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the Father who lives in me does his works.

• John 14:11

  Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

• Acts 9:13

  But Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much evil he did to your saints at Jerusalem.

• Acts 9:14

  Here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on your name.”

• 1 Peter 1:6

  Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials,