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Doubt James 1:6

But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

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Doubt Matthew 21:21

“Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.

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Doubt 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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Doubt Jude 1:22

And indeed, have mercy on those who doubt;

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Doubt Mark 9:24

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

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Doubt Isaiah 41:10

Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.

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Doubt Luke 24:38

“Why are you troubled,” Jesus asked, “and why do doubts arise in your hearts?

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Doubt John 20:27

Then Jesus said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and look at My hands. Reach out your hand and put it into My side. Stop doubting and believe.”

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Doubt Proverbs 3:5

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

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Doubt Romans 14:23

But the one who has doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and everything that is not from faith is sin.

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Doubting: Exemplified Genesis 12:12, 13

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. / Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”

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Doubting: Exemplified Genesis 15:8

But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”

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Doubting: Exemplified Genesis 18:12–14

So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?” / And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’ / Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”

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Doubting: Exemplified Genesis 19:30

Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.

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Doubting: Exemplified Genesis 20:2, 11

Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him. / Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’

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Doubting: Exemplified Genesis 26:7

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

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Doubting: Exemplified Exodus 3:11

But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

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Doubting: Exemplified Exodus 4:1, 10, 13

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.’” / “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.” / But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

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Doubting: Exemplified Exodus 5:22, 23

So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me? / Ever since I went to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has brought trouble on this people, and You have not delivered Your people in any way.”

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Doubting: Exemplified Exodus 6:12

But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”

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Doubting: Exemplified Exodus 14:10–12, 15

As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD. / They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? / Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

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Doubting: Exemplified Numbers 11:21, 22

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?”

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Doubting: Exemplified Judges 6:13, 15

“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.” / “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

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Doubting: Exemplified 1 Samuel 16:1, 2

Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.” / “How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’

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Doubting: Exemplified 1 Samuel 17:11, 24

On hearing the words of the Philistine, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and greatly afraid. / When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear.

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Doubting: Exemplified 1 Samuel 22:3, 4

From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.” / So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.

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Doubting: Exemplified 1 Kings 18:7–14

Now as Obadiah went on his way, Elijah suddenly met him. When Obadiah recognized him, he fell facedown and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?” / “It is I,” he answered. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here!’” / But Obadiah replied, “How have I sinned, that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to put me to death?

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Doubting: Exemplified 1 Kings 19:13–18

When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” / “I have been very zealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts,” he replied, “but the Israelites have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars, and killed Your prophets with the sword. I am the only one left, and they are seeking my life as well.” / Then the LORD said to him, “Go back by the way you came, and go to the Desert of Damascus. When you arrive, you are to anoint Hazael as king over Aram.

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Doubting: Exemplified 2 Kings 13:18, 19

Then Elisha said, “Take the arrows!” So he took them, and Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” So he struck the ground three times and stopped. / But the man of God was angry with him and said, “You should have struck the ground five or six times. Then you would have struck down Aram until you had put an end to it. But now you will strike down Aram only three times.”

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Doubting: Exemplified Jeremiah 1:6

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”

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Doubting: Exemplified Jeremiah 32:24, 25

See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see! / Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”

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Doubting: Exemplified Matthew 8:23–27

When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. / Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was engulfed by the waves; but Jesus was sleeping. / The disciples went and woke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!”

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Doubting: Exemplified Matthew 11:2, 3

Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples / to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”

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Doubting: Exemplified Matthew 14:29–31

“Come,” said Jesus. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water, and came toward Jesus. / But when he saw the strength of the wind, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” / 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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Doubting: Exemplified Matthew 17:14–21

When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and knelt before Him. / “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering terribly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. / I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

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Doubting: Exemplified Matthew 28:17

When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted.

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Doubting: Exemplified Mark 9:14–29

When they returned to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. / As soon as all the people saw Jesus, they were filled with awe and ran to greet Him. / “What are you disputing with them?” He asked.

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Doubting: Exemplified Mark 16:10, 11

She went and told those who had been with Him, who were mourning and weeping. / And when they heard that Jesus was alive and she had seen Him, they did not believe it.

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Doubting: Exemplified John 14:8–11

Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” / Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? / Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I say to you, I do not speak on My own. Instead, it is the Father dwelling in Me, performing His works.

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Doubting: Exemplified Acts 9:13, 14

But Ananias answered, “Lord, many people have told me about this man and all the harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. / And now he is here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on Your name.”

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Job 4:3–6

Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. / Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling. / But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Job 9:16–23

If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice. / For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause. / He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Job 23:15–17

Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him. / God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me. / Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Job 30:20, 21

I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me. / You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 22:2

I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 31:22

In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 42:5, 6

Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence. / O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 49:5

Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 73:13–17

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands. / For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning. / If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 77:3

I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 24:10

If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 40:27, 28

Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”? / Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 49:14, 15

But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!” / “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 8:18

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 15:18

Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 45:3

You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 3:8, 17, 18

Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. / My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. / So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 5:20

Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 10:3

Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning 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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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning 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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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning 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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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning 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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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Mark 9:19

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

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning 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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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 9:40

I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”

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Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Peter 1:6

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials

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Jews: A Corrupted Form, Doubtless, of Judah 2 Kings 16:6

At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, drove out the men of Judah, and sent the Edomites into Elath, where they live to this day.

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Jews: A Corrupted Form, Doubtless, of Judah 2 Kings 25:25

In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, who was a member of the royal family, came with ten men and struck down and killed Gedaliah, along with the Judeans and Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

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Jews: A Corrupted Form, Doubtless, of Judah 2 Chronicles 32:18

Then the Assyrians called out loudly in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them in order to capture the city.

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Self Doubt Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.

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Self Doubt 2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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Self Doubt Ephesians 6:10

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.

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Self Doubt Psalm 118:24

This is the day that the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.

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Self Doubt Ruth 3:11

And now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.

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Self Doubt 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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Self Doubt Philippians 2:13

For it is God who works in you to will and to act on behalf of His good purpose.

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Self Doubt Isaiah 26:3

You will keep in perfect peace the steadfast of mind, because he trusts in You.

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Self Doubt Genesis 1:27

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

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Self Doubt Galatians 3:26

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

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The Favour of God: Saints: Sometimes Tempted to Doubt Psalm 77:7

“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

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The Promises of God: Saints: Sometimes, Through Infirmity, Tempted to Doubt Psalm 77:8, 10

Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time? / So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

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