Quotes About Belief

We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”

know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.

I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law, or by hearing with faith?

Are you so foolish? After starting in the Spirit, are you now finishing in the flesh?

Does God lavish His Spirit on you and work miracles among you because you practice the law, or because you hear and believe?

So also, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”

Now it is clear that no one is justified before God by the law, because, “The righteous will live by faith.”

Those who want to make a good impression outwardly are trying to compel you to be circumcised. They only do this to avoid persecution for the cross of Christ.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism;

as to zeal, persecuting the church; as to righteousness in the law, faultless.

and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God on the basis of faith.

You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.

Do not treat prophecies with contempt,

For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie,

in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

But for this very reason I was shown mercy, so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display His perfect patience as an example to those who would believe in Him for eternal life.

holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and thereby shipwrecked their faith.

They must hold to the mystery of the faith with a clear conscience.

By common confession, the mystery of godliness is great: He appeared in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit, was seen by angels, was proclaimed among the nations, was believed in throughout the world, was taken up in glory.

influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from certain foods that God has created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

This is a trustworthy saying, worthy of full acceptance.

If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

and thus will incur judgment because they are setting aside their first faith.