The best Bible verses for doubt (ESV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for doubt (ESV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him."Mark 11:23
"Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him."Mark 11:23
"Jesus immediately reached out his hand and took hold of him, saying to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?”"Matthew 14:31
"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."Romans 14:23
"And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,"Romans 4:5
"who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God."1 Peter 1:21
"Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity."1 Timothy 4:12
"Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,"2 Corinthians 4:13
"But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe."Galatians 3:22
"Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue;"John 12:42
"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."Mark 16:14
"the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:"Romans 3:22
"And Jesus answered them, “Truly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what has been done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen."Matthew 21:21
Translations differ in what they optimise for. Some follow the original wording closely at the cost of a natural English sentence; others read smoothly and make interpretive choices to get there. Neither is wrong, but they produce noticeably different verses.
Each of the 15 verses below is shown in the translation you asked for, and every verse links to a page comparing all six side by side — which is usually the fastest way to see where the translators disagreed.
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The most-cited Bible verses for doubt (ESV) are Mark 11:23, Matthew 14:31, Romans 14:23. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to doubt (ESV) across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for doubt (ESV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.