The best Bible verses for faith (ESV) include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for faith (ESV), each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy;"Psalms 111:7
"and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you — unless you believed in vain."1 Corinthians 15:2
"You are witnesses, and God also, how holy and righteous and blameless was our conduct toward you believers."1 Thessalonians 2:10
"which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me."2 Timothy 1:12
"In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,"Ephesians 1:13
"Who has believed what he has heard from us? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?"Isaiah 53:1
"and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness” — and he was called a friend of God."James 2:23
"But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,"John 1:12
"When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken."John 2:22
"Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing."John 2:23
"Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.”"John 4:39
"The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, and all his household."John 4:53
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 faith (ESV) are Psalms 111:7, 1 Corinthians 15:2, 1 Corinthians 15:11. 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 faith (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 faith (ESV), chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.