What is Faith anyway...really?!

Faith Is

 

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 14 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.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 13 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. ...

Romans 10:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

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

Acts 2:38 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 3:16 ESV / 7 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.

Mark 16:16 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

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

James 2:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

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

Ephesians 2:8-9 ESV / 6 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.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

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

Galatians 2:16 ESV / 6 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.

John 5:24 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

James 2:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

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

Romans 3:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

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

John 6:47 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 3:18 ESV / 5 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.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

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

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 4 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.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

John 8:24 ESV / 4 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.”

Luke 13:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.

Jude 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

1 John 5:4 ESV / 3 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.

James 2:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

James 2:18 ESV / 3 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.

James 2:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in, and if you pay attention to the one who wears the fine clothing and say, “You sit here in a good place,” while you say to the poor man, “You stand over there,” or, “Sit down at my feet,” have you not then made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts? 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? ...

James 1:6-8 ESV / 3 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. 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 11:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going.

Hebrews 11:7 ESV / 3 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.

Hebrews 10:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

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

Hebrews 10:35 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Hebrews 6:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Timothy 6:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.