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100 Bible Verses about Unbelief

Matthew 17:20 ESV / 661 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.”

Mark 9:24 ESV / 595 helpful votes

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

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 565 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 11:6 ESV / 562 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.

Mark 9:23-25 ESV / 527 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

Hebrews 3:12 ESV / 500 helpful votes

Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV / 496 helpful votes

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Romans 4:20 ESV / 493 helpful votes

No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,

James 1:6 ESV / 470 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.

Hebrews 3:19 ESV / 470 helpful votes

So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 466 helpful votes

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

Jude 1:22 ESV / 445 helpful votes

And have mercy on those who doubt;

John 12:48 ESV / 445 helpful votes

The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

John 3:18-19 ESV / 434 helpful votes

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.

Hebrews 4:1-2 ESV / 421 helpful votes

Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. 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 8:7 ESV / 416 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 416 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.

2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 412 helpful votes

Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12 ESV / 405 helpful votes

Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Matthew 7:21 ESV / 405 helpful votes

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 22:14 ESV / 396 helpful votes

For many are called, but few are chosen.”

Romans 10:4 ESV / 384 helpful votes

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 378 helpful votes

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Luke 7:23 ESV / 377 helpful votes

And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”

Luke 18:8 ESV / 369 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?”

Matthew 17:17 ESV / 360 helpful votes

And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”

John 20:27-29 ESV / 358 helpful votes

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Matthew 13:58 ESV / 347 helpful votes

And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.

Romans 11:20 ESV / 344 helpful votes

That is true. They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith. So do not become proud, but fear.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 ESV / 340 helpful votes

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

Mark 4:40 ESV / 339 helpful votes

He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”

Romans 14:23 ESV / 338 helpful votes

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 332 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 5:19-21 ESV / 331 helpful votes

We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one. And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life. Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Hebrews 4:11 ESV / 331 helpful votes

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

1 Timothy 6:3-5 ESV / 329 helpful votes

If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.

2 Peter 2:1 ESV / 317 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.

Mark 6:6 ESV / 309 helpful votes

And he marveled because of their unbelief. And he went about among the villages teaching.

Mark 16:14 ESV / 308 helpful votes

Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.

1 Timothy 1:13 ESV / 307 helpful votes

Though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief,

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 307 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Romans 11:32 ESV / 285 helpful votes

For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

Hebrews 4:2 ESV / 281 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.

Ephesians 6:16 ESV / 279 helpful votes

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;

John 8:32 ESV / 279 helpful votes

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Mark 9:23 ESV / 276 helpful votes

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

Matthew 17:19-21 ESV / 275 helpful votes

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 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.”

1 John 4:18 ESV / 257 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.

John 6:36 ESV / 257 helpful votes

But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 256 helpful votes

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

John 1:11 ESV / 256 helpful votes

He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.

James 4:4 ESV / 247 helpful votes

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 247 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

John 14:15 ESV / 241 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 227 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 224 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.

Ephesians 2:3 ESV / 222 helpful votes

Among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Colossians 2:8 ESV / 215 helpful votes

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

Mark 9:25 ESV / 213 helpful votes

And when Jesus saw that a crowd came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him and never enter him again.”

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 211 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Hebrews 3:8 ESV / 211 helpful votes

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

Romans 10:17 ESV / 209 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 4:6 ESV / 201 helpful votes

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news failed to enter because of disobedience,

2 Timothy 1:6-7 ESV / 200 helpful votes

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Matthew 13:13-15 ESV / 198 helpful votes

This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. Indeed, in their case the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says: “‘“You will indeed hear but never understand, and you will indeed see but never perceive.” For this people's heart has grown dull, and with their ears they can barely hear, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.’

John 3:36 ESV / 197 helpful votes

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

Luke 24:26 ESV / 197 helpful votes

Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”

John 8:24 ESV / 185 helpful votes

I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”

1 John 4:1 ESV / 183 helpful votes

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Romans 3:3 ESV / 183 helpful votes

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

Romans 11:23 ESV / 181 helpful votes

And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

Romans 6:1 ESV / 173 helpful votes

What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound?

Mark 9:23-24 ESV / 170 helpful votes

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.” Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”

John 16:9 ESV / 169 helpful votes

Concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

James 1:5-8 ESV / 164 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 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. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

Hebrews 3:7 ESV / 159 helpful votes

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,

John 20:27 ESV / 158 helpful votes

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”

Acts 17:11 ESV / 154 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.

Romans 11:30 ESV / 150 helpful votes

For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

Hebrews 10:26 ESV / 147 helpful votes

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,

Hebrews 3:7-8 ESV / 146 helpful votes

Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, on the day of testing in the wilderness,

Romans 15:4 ESV / 141 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.

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 139 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 138 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Psalm 78:22 ESV / 134 helpful votes

Because they did not believe in God and did not trust his saving power.

1 Timothy 2:4 ESV / 133 helpful votes

Who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Mark 10:1-52 ESV / 131 helpful votes

And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. ...

2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV / 130 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,

Mark 8:1-38 ESV / 130 helpful votes

In those days, when again a great crowd had gathered, and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them, “I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been with me now three days and have nothing to eat. And if I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way. And some of them have come from far away.” And his disciples answered him, “How can one feed these people with bread here in this desolate place?” And he asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.” ...

Revelation 3:11 ESV / 129 helpful votes

I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.

Galatians 3:11 ESV / 129 helpful votes

Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.”

Romans 16:17 ESV / 127 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and create obstacles contrary to the doctrine that you have been taught; avoid them.

Hebrews 3:16-19 ESV / 126 helpful votes

For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.

Revelation 22:18 ESV / 118 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,

Romans 1:18 ESV / 115 helpful votes

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.

John 3:18 ESV / 114 helpful votes

Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

Matthew 14:31 ESV / 110 helpful votes

Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Hebrews 3:17-18 ESV / 108 helpful votes

And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

1 Corinthians 10:11 ESV / 107 helpful votes

Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

Luke 12:46 ESV / 77 helpful votes

The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

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