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Belief John 20:29

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

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Belief John 14:12–14

Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. / And I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. / If you ask Me for anything in My name, I will do it.

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Belief John 3:16

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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Belief John 14:1

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe in Me as well.

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Belief Romans 10:9, 10

that if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. / For with your heart you believe and are justified, and with your mouth you confess and are saved.

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Belief Mark 16:15, 16

And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. / Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

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Belief Mark 9:24

Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”

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Belief Exodus 6:6

Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

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Belief Romans 10:14

How then can they call on the One in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in the One of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach?

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Belief James 2:22

You see that his faith was working with his actions, and his faith was perfected by what he did.

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Chiding: Jesus Chides his Disciples: On Account of Their Unbelief Matthew 8:26

“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.

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Chiding: Jesus Chides his Disciples: On Account of Their Unbelief Matthew 14:31

Immediately Jesus reached out His hand and took hold of Peter. “You of little faith,” He said, “why did you doubt?”

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Chiding: Jesus Chides his Disciples: On Account of Their Unbelief Matthew 16:8–11

Aware of their conversation, Jesus said, “You of little faith, why are you debating among yourselves about having no bread? / Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? / Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

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Chiding: Jesus Chides his Disciples: On Account of Their Unbelief Matthew 17:17

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”

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Chiding: Jesus Chides his Disciples: On Account of Their Unbelief Mark 4:40

“Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”

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Chiding: Jesus Chides his Disciples: On Account of Their Unbelief Luke 8:25

“Where is your faith?” He asked. Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!”

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Condemnation: Increased by Unbelief John 3:18, 19

Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son. / And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light because their deeds were evil.

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Disbelief Mark 9:24

Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”

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Disbelief 2 Timothy 3:7

who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

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Disbelief Romans 8:7

because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.

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Disbelief 2 Timothy 4:3, 4

For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. / So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

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Disbelief Romans 10:17

Consequently, faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.

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Disbelief 2 Corinthians 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

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Disbelief 2 Thessalonians 2:9, 10

The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and false wonder, / and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.

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Election: Ensures to Saints: Belief in Christ Acts 13:48

When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

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Faith: Sum Total of Religious Belief and Life Romans 1:8

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.

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Faith: Sum Total of Religious Belief and Life Jude 1:3

Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.

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Falsehood: Joseph's Brothers, in Deceiving Their Father Into a Belief That Joseph Was Killed by Wild Beasts Genesis 37:29–35

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes, / returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?” / Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.

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Falsehood: To the Angels, Denying Her Derisive Laugh of Unbelief Genesis 18:15

But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”

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Heedfulness: Necessary: Against Unbelief Hebrews 3:12

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

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Israel: The Judgment of God Upon Them in Consequence of Their Unbelief and Complaining Numbers 14:13–39

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them. / And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. / If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,

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Moses: Unbelief of the People Exodus 6:9

Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

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Prayer: Unbelief In Job 21:15

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

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Rebellion Against God: Exhibited in Unbelief Deuteronomy 9:23

And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

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Rebellion Against God: Exhibited in Unbelief Psalm 106:24, 25

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise. / They grumbled in their tents and did not listen to the voice of the LORD.

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Reproof: On Account of Unbelief Matthew 17:17, 20

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.” / “Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

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Reproof: On Account of Unbelief Mark 16:14

Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

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Self-Will and Stubbornness: Proceed From: Unbelief 2 Kings 17:14

But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

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Self-Will: Proceeds From: Unbelief 2 Kings 17:14

But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

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Spiritual Blindness: Unbelief, the Effect of Romans 11:8

as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that could not see, and ears that could not hear, to this very day.”

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Spiritual Blindness: Unbelief, the Effect of 2 Corinthians 4:3, 4

And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. / The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

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Spiritual Death: Unbelief Is John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

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Spiritual Death: Unbelief Is 1 John 5:12

Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

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Superstition: The Belief of the Syrians Concerning the Help of the Gods 1 Kings 20:23

Meanwhile, the servants of the king of Aram said to him, “Their gods are gods of the hills. That is why they prevailed over us. Instead, we should fight them on the plains; surely then we will prevail.

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The Anger of God: Against: Unbelief Psalm 78:21, 22

Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel, / because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

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The Anger of God: Against: Unbelief Hebrews 3:18, 19

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? / So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

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The Anger of God: Against: Unbelief John 3:36

Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”

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The Jews: Cast off for Unbelief Romans 11:17, 20

Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root, / That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

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The Jews: Punished For: Unbelief Romans 11:20

That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

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The Poor: Neglect Towards Is: A Proof of Unbelief James 2:15–17

Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. / If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that? / So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.

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The Punishment of the Wicked: On Account of Their: Unbelief Mark 16:16

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

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The Punishment of the Wicked: On Account of Their: Unbelief Romans 11:20

That is correct: They were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.

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The Punishment of the Wicked: On Account of Their: Unbelief Hebrews 3:18, 19

And to whom did He swear that they would never enter His rest? Was it not to those who disobeyed? / So we see that it was because of their unbelief that they were unable to enter.

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The Punishment of the Wicked: On Account of Their: Unbelief Hebrews 4:2

For we also received the good news just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, since they did not share the faith of those who comprehended it.

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The Resurrection of Christ: The Apostles: Reproved for Their Unbelief of Mark 16:14

Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.

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Unbelief is Sin John 16:9

in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;

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Unbelief was an Impediment to the Performance of Miracles Matthew 17:20

“Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

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Unbelief was an Impediment to the Performance of Miracles Mark 6:5

So He could not perform any miracles there, except to lay His hands on a few of the sick and heal them.

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Unbelief: A Samaritan Lord 2 Kings 7:2

But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”

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Unbelief: All, by Nature, Concluded In Romans 11:32

For God has consigned everyone to disobedience so that He may have mercy on everyone.

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Unbelief: Believers should Hold No Communion with Those In 2 Corinthians 6:14

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?

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Unbelief: Brethren of Christ John 7:5

For even His own brothers did not believe in Him.

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Unbelief: Chief Priests Luke 22:67

“If You are the Christ, tell us.” Jesus answered, “If I tell you, you will not believe.

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Unbelief: Defilement Inseparable From Titus 1:15

To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.

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Unbelief: Disciples Matthew 17:20

“Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

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Unbelief: Disciples Mark 4:38, 40

But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?” / “Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”

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Unbelief: Disciples Luke 24:41–45

While they were still in disbelief because of their joy and amazement, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” / So they gave Him a piece of broiled fish, / and He took it and ate it in front of them.

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Unbelief: Ephesians Acts 19:9

But when some of them stubbornly refused to believe and publicly maligned the Way, Paul took his disciples and left the synagogue to conduct daily discussions in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

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Unbelief: Eve Genesis 3:4–6

“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her. / “For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” / When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Departing from God Hebrews 3:12

See to it, brothers, that none of you has a wicked heart of unbelief that turns away from the living God.

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Unbelief: Exhibited in not Believing the Works of God Psalm 78:32

In spite of all this, they kept on sinning; despite His wonderful works, they did not believe.

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Questioning the Power of God 2 Kings 7:2

But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Questioning the Power of God Psalm 78:19, 20

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness? / When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Rejecting Christ John 16:9

in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Rejecting Evidence of Miracles John 12:37

Although Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still did not believe in Him.

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Rejecting the Gospel Isaiah 53:1

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Rejecting the Gospel John 12:38

This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Rejecting the Word of God Psalm 106:24

They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

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Unbelief: Exhibited in Staggering at the Promise of God Romans 4:20

Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Exodus 4:1

Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Numbers 11:21–23

But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’ / If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?” / The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Numbers 20:12, 13

But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.” / These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD, and He showed His holiness among them.

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 78:19, 21, 22, 32

They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness? / Therefore the LORD heard and was filled with wrath; so a fire was kindled against Jacob, and His anger flared against Israel, / because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 95:8–11

do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness, / where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work. / For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 106:7, 24

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea. / They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 6:9, 10

And He replied: “Go and tell this people, ‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / Make the hearts of this people calloused; deafen their ears and close their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 7:9

The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.’”

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 53:1–3

Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed? / He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him. / He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 58:3

“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 5:12–14

They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine. / The prophets are but wind, for the word is not in them. So let their own predictions befall them.” / Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Malachi 1:2, 7

“I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved, / By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 10:14, 15

And if anyone will not welcome you or heed your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. / Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 11:16–19

To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others: / ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ / For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon!’

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 13:13–15, 58

This is why I speak to them in parables: ‘Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand.’ / In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled: ‘You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. / For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 17:17, 19, 20

“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.” / Afterward the disciples came to Jesus privately and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?” / “Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 21:32

For John came to you in a righteous way and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him.

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 4:24, 25

He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you. / For whoever has will be given more. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 6:2–6

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard Him were astonished. “Where did this man get these ideas?” they asked. “What is this wisdom He has been given? And how can He perform such miracles? / Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? Aren’t His sisters here with us as well?” And they took offense at Him. / Then Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 9:24

Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”

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Unbelief: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 16:14, 16

Later, as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. / Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.

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