Bible Verses About Faith
Hebrews 11 defines faith and then spends an entire chapter showing it in people who mostly did not see the promise fulfilled in their lifetime.
Faith in scripture is described as substance and evidence for what is not yet seen, and demonstrated more often through action — Noah building, Abraham leaving, Moses refusing — than through a stated feeling of certainty.
Featured verses
“Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.”
Hebrews 11:1 · WEB
“So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.”
Romans 10:17 · WEB
“for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast.”
Ephesians 2:8-9 · WEB
“Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.”
James 2:17 · WEB
“for we walk by faith, not by sight.”
2 Corinthians 5:7 · WEB
More verses
“Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"”
Mark 9:24 · WEB
Questions about faith
What does the Bible say faith actually is?
Hebrews 11:1 is the Bible's closest thing to a definition: faith as confident assurance about things hoped for and evidence of things not yet seen, rather than certainty produced by proof.