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πιστεύωpisteúō
GreekG4100264 occurrences (KJV)

to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ)

KJV renders it: believe(-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with

Where it appears(showing the first 220 of 264)

  • Matt 8:13Jesus said to the centurion, “Go your way. Let it be done for you as you have believed.” His servant was healed in that hour.
  • Matt 9:28When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
  • Matt 18:6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him that a huge millstone should be hung around his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depths of the sea.
  • Matt 21:22All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
  • Matt 21:25The baptism of John, where was it from? From heaven or from men?” They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will ask us, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
  • Matt 21:32For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you didn’t believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. When you saw it, you didn’t even repent afterward, that you might believe him.
  • Matt 24:23“Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.
  • Matt 24:26If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.
  • Matt 27:42“He saved others, but he can’t save himself. If he is the King of Israel, let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.
  • Mark 1:15and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and God’s Kingdom is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”
  • Mark 5:36But Jesus, when he heard the message spoken, immediately said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Don’t be afraid, only believe.”
  • Mark 9:23Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
  • Mark 9:24Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
  • Mark 9:42Whoever will cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if he were thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around his neck.
  • Mark 11:23For most certainly I tell you, whoever may tell this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and doesn’t doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is happening; he shall have whatever he says.
  • Mark 11:24Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
  • Mark 11:31They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we should say, ‘From heaven;’ he will say, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’
  • Mark 13:21Then if anyone tells you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘Look, there!’ don’t believe it.
  • Mark 15:32Let the Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, that we may see and believe him.” Those who were crucified with him also insulted him.
  • Mark 16:13They went away and told it to the rest. They didn’t believe them, either.
  • Mark 16:14Afterward he was revealed to the eleven themselves as they sat at the table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they didn’t believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
  • Mark 16:16He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.
  • Mark 16:17These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
  • Luke 1:20Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak, until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”
  • Luke 1:45Blessed is she who believed, for there will be a fulfillment of the things which have been spoken to her from the Lord!”
  • Luke 8:12Those along the road are those who hear, then the devil comes, and takes away the word from their heart, that they may not believe and be saved.
  • Luke 8:13Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.
  • Luke 8:50But Jesus hearing it, answered him, “Don’t be afraid. Only believe, and she will be healed.”
  • Luke 16:11If therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?
  • Luke 20:5They reasoned with themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’
  • Luke 22:67“If you are the Christ, tell us.” But he said to them, “If I tell you, you won’t believe,
  • Luke 24:25He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
  • John 1:7The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.
  • John 1:12But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God’s children, to those who believe in his name:
  • John 1:50Jesus answered him, “Because I told you, ‘I saw you underneath the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these!”
  • John 2:11This beginning of his signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.
  • John 2:22When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he said this, and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
  • John 2:23Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
  • John 2:24But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
  • John 3:12If I told you earthly things and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
  • John 3:15that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
  • John 3:18He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.
  • John 3:36One who believes in the Son has eternal life, but one who disobeys the Son won’t see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”
  • John 4:21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.
  • John 4:39From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”
  • John 4:41Many more believed because of his word.
  • John 4:42They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
  • John 4:48Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”
  • John 4:50Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
  • John 4:53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.
  • John 5:24“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
  • John 5:38You don’t have his word living in you; because you don’t believe him whom he sent.
  • John 5:44How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God?
  • John 5:46For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
  • John 5:47But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
  • John 6:29Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”
  • John 6:30They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
  • John 6:35Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will not be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.
  • John 6:36But I told you that you have seen me, and yet you don’t believe.
  • John 6:40This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”
  • John 6:47Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
  • John 6:64But there are some of you who don’t believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who didn’t believe, and who it was who would betray him.
  • John 6:69We have come to believe and know that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
  • John 7:5For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.
  • John 7:31But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, “When the Christ comes, he won’t do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?”
  • John 7:38He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”
  • John 7:39But he said this about the Spirit, which those believing in him were to receive. For the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus wasn’t yet glorified.
  • John 7:48Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?
  • John 8:24I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
  • John 8:30As he spoke these things, many believed in him.
  • John 8:31Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
  • John 8:45But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.
  • John 8:46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
  • John 9:18The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
  • John 9:35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
  • John 9:36He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
  • John 9:38He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
  • John 10:25Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me.
  • John 10:26But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you.
  • John 10:37If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me.
  • John 10:38But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works; that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
  • John 10:42Many believed in him there.
  • John 11:15I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”
  • John 11:25Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will still live, even if he dies.
  • John 11:26Whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”
  • John 11:27She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, God’s Son, he who comes into the world.”
  • John 11:40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”
  • John 11:42I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me.”
  • John 11:45Therefore many of the Jews, who came to Mary and saw what Jesus did, believed in him.
  • John 11:48If we leave him alone like this, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and our nation.”
  • John 12:11because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
  • John 12:36While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become children of light.” Jesus said these things, and he departed and hid himself from them.
  • John 12:37But though he had done so many signs before them, yet they didn’t believe in him,
  • John 12:38that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke, “Lord, who has believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
  • John 12:39For this cause they couldn’t believe, for Isaiah said again,
  • John 12:42Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
  • John 12:44Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me, but in him who sent me.
  • John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
  • John 12:47If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
  • John 13:19From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it happens, you may believe that I am he.
  • John 14:1“Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.
  • John 14:10Don’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 14:11Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
  • John 14:12Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father.
  • John 14:29Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it happens, you may believe.
  • John 16:9about sin, because they don’t believe in me;
  • John 16:27for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
  • John 16:30Now we know that you know all things, and don’t need for anyone to question you. By this we believe that you came from God.”
  • John 16:31Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?
  • John 17:8for the words which you have given me I have given to them, and they received them, and knew for sure that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me.
  • John 17:20Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word,
  • John 17:21that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.
  • John 19:35He who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true. He knows that he tells the truth, that you may believe.
  • John 20:8So then the other disciple who came first to the tomb also entered in, and he saw and believed.
  • John 20:25The other disciples therefore said to him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, put my finger into the print of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
  • John 20:29Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”
  • John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
  • Acts 2:44All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
  • Acts 4:4But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
  • Acts 4:32The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.
  • Acts 5:14More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
  • Acts 8:12But when they believed Philip preaching good news concerning God’s Kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
  • Acts 8:13Simon himself also believed. Being baptized, he continued with Philip. Seeing signs and great miracles occurring, he was amazed.
  • Acts 8:37
  • Acts 9:26When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.
  • Acts 9:42And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.
  • Acts 10:43All the prophets testify about him, that through his name everyone who believes in him will receive remission of sins.”
  • Acts 11:17If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”
  • Acts 11:21The hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number believed and turned to the Lord.
  • Acts 13:12Then the proconsul, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.
  • Acts 13:39and by him everyone who believes is justified from all things, from which you could not be justified by the law of Moses.
  • Acts 13:41‘Behold, you scoffers, and wonder, and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’”
  • Acts 13:48As the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of God. As many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
  • Acts 14:1In Iconium, they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke that a great multitude both of Jews and of Greeks believed.
  • Acts 14:23When they had appointed elders for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.
  • Acts 15:5But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
  • Acts 15:7When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News, and believe.
  • Acts 15:11But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
  • Acts 16:31They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”
  • Acts 16:34He brought them up into his house, and set food before them, and rejoiced greatly, with all his household, having believed in God.
  • Acts 17:12Many of them therefore believed; also of the prominent Greek women, and not a few men.
  • Acts 17:34But certain men joined with him, and believed, among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
  • Acts 18:8Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue, believed in the Lord with all his house. Many of the Corinthians, when they heard, believed and were baptized.
  • Acts 18:27When he had determined to pass over into Achaia, the brothers encouraged him, and wrote to the disciples to receive him. When he had come, he greatly helped those who had believed through grace;
  • Acts 19:2He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” They said to him, “No, we haven’t even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”
  • Acts 19:4Paul said, “John indeed baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe in the one who would come after him, that is, in Jesus.”
  • Acts 19:18Many also of those who had believed came, confessing, and declaring their deeds.
  • Acts 21:20They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.
  • Acts 21:25But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.”
  • Acts 22:19I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
  • Acts 24:14But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;
  • Acts 26:27King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you believe.”
  • Acts 27:25Therefore, sirs, cheer up! For I believe God, that it will be just as it has been spoken to me.
  • Rom 1:16For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek.
  • Rom 3:2Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
  • Rom 3:22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ to all and on all those who believe. For there is no distinction,
  • Rom 4:3For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”
  • Rom 4:5But to him who doesn’t work, but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
  • Rom 4:11He received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while he was in uncircumcision, that he might be the father of all those who believe, though they might be in uncircumcision, that righteousness might also be accounted to them.
  • Rom 4:17As it is written, “I have made you a father of many nations.” This is in the presence of him whom he believed: God, who gives life to the dead, and calls the things that are not, as though they were.
  • Rom 4:18Besides hope, Abraham in hope believed, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, “So will your offspring be.”
  • Rom 4:24but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,
  • Rom 6:8But if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him;
  • Rom 9:33even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
  • Rom 10:4For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
  • Rom 10:9that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
  • Rom 10:10For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
  • Rom 10:11For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
  • Rom 10:14How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
  • Rom 10:16But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
  • Rom 13:11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
  • Rom 14:2One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.
  • Rom 15:13Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 1:21For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.
  • 1 Cor 3:5Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?
  • 1 Cor 9:17For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.
  • 1 Cor 11:18For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.
  • 1 Cor 13:7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  • 1 Cor 14:22Therefore other languages are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to the unbelieving; but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to those who believe.
  • 1 Cor 15:2by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you — unless you believed in vain.
  • 1 Cor 15:11Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.
  • 2 Cor 4:13But having the same spirit of faith, according to that which is written, “I believed, and therefore I spoke.” We also believe, and therefore also we speak;
  • Gal 2:7but to the contrary, when they saw that I had been entrusted with the Good News for the uncircumcision, even as Peter with the Good News for the circumcision
  • Gal 2:16yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, even we believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law, because no flesh will be justified by the works of the law.
  • Gal 3:6Even as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted to him for righteousness.”
  • Gal 3:22But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
  • Eph 1:13in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation — in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
  • Eph 1:19and what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
  • Phil 1:29Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,
  • 1 Th 1:7so that you became an example to all who believe in Macedonia and in Achaia.
  • 1 Th 2:4But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.
  • 1 Th 2:10You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
  • 1 Th 2:13For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.
  • 1 Th 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
  • 2 Th 1:10when he comes to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired among all those who have believed (because our testimony to you was believed) in that day.
  • 2 Th 2:11Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
  • 2 Th 2:12that they all might be judged who didn’t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  • 1 Tim 1:11according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.
  • 1 Tim 1:16However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.
  • 1 Tim 3:16Without controversy, the mystery of godliness is great: God was revealed in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, and received up in glory.
  • 2 Tim 1:12For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.
  • Titus 1:3but in his own time revealed his word in the message with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior;
  • Titus 3:8This saying is faithful, and concerning these things I desire that you affirm confidently, so that those who have believed God may be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men;
  • Heb 4:3For we who have believed do enter into that rest, even as he has said, “As I swore in my wrath, they will not enter into my rest”; although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
  • Heb 11:6Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
  • Jas 2:19You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.
  • Jas 2:23and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him as righteousness”; and he was called the friend of God.
  • 1 Pet 1:8whom not having known you love; in whom, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory —
  • 1 Pet 1:21who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.
  • 1 Pet 2:6Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”
  • 1 Pet 2:7For you who believe therefore is the honor, but for those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected, has become the chief cornerstone,”
  • 1 Jn 3:23This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.
  • 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  • 1 Jn 4:16We know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and he who remains in love remains in God, and God remains in him.
  • 1 Jn 5:1Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God. Whoever loves the Father also loves the child who is born of him.
  • 1 Jn 5:5Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
  • 1 Jn 5:10He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.
  • 1 Jn 5:13These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.
  • Jude 1:5Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.