Faith

Links to sections of this Study are: Faith; Faithful; Faithfulness

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I will start with what the New Testament says about the word faithful  and cover all that the word of God says about this word after that.

Forms of the word faith  occur 348 times in 324 verses.

The main application of the word faithful  is: 'full of faith all of the time'.  Many people believe doctrinal error about the word faithful  and the word faith  because they have also been taught: 'Believe what the preacher says without verifying what is preached'.  Acts 17:11 says: These (the people of Berea) were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.  God gave each of us a brain and expects us to use it to verify what we are told because the world is full of liars and deceived people.  Saved people who can verify Bible word definitions, but failed to do so and believe a lie, will be judged by God at the judgment seat of Christ.

One major source of error is that God's people are not rightly dividing the word of truth  (2Timothy 2:15), in spite of the warning that God will make them ashamed.  People claim to know and understand that 'there is one definition but many applications of Bible words', yet they believe that their favorite application is the single definition.  They accept a definition from a dictionary when Bible dictionaries have a 75%-95% accuracy with Webster's 1828 having the greatest accuracy even while it includes some doctrinal error.  In addition, many dictionaries do not provide a single definition, or down-play the single definition while emphasizing many applications which they call 'definitions'.  The only true way to find the difference between the single definition and the many applications is to study, in context, every place that the Bible uses a word and separate what never changes from what changed.  What never changes is the SINGLE definition while what changes is the MANY applications.  Unfortunately too many people are not willing to put that much effort into finding Bible truth.  There are at least 2471 word studies on ljc1611kjv.com which have been studied exactly this way.  This Word Study is the result of such a study.

Now, in addition to what is below, please see ljc1611kjv.com for the following notes:

• Please see the notes for Romans 4 and James 2:21-LJC about Abraham's faith.
• Please also see the note for 2Timothy C1S2 about the phrase faith: unfeigned
• Please also see the note for Romans C10S12 about the phrase faith makes us not ashamed
• Please also see the note for Ephesians C1S2 about the phrase just shall live by faith
• Please also see the note for Romans C11S6 about the phrase just shall live by his faith
• Please also see the note for Romans C3S29 about the phrase justification by faith
• Please also see the note for Romans C3S25 about Law and faith
• Please also see the note for Romans C9S28 about live / walk by faith
• Please see the note for James 2:14 for links to every verse in the New Testament where the words faith and works  contained within the same verse.

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Faith

The word faith  occurs 247 times in 231 verses, but only twice in the Old Testament.

The New Testament for this word is: 'an action word that is based upon a belief in a promise found within the Bible with the action dictated by the Bible and the understanding that our action does not force God to act nor determines when or how God acts but proves that of our own free will we are giving God permission to act in and through our life to do what He promised within His word.  Before acting, someone only has a belief'.

Webster's 1828 defines this word as: 'n. L. fides, fido, to trust; Gr. to persuade, to draw towards any thing, to conciliate; to believe, to obey. In the Greek Lexicon of Hederic it is said, the primitive signification of the verb is to bind and draw or lead, as signifies a rope or cable. But this remark is a little incorrect. The sense of the verb, from which that of rope and binding is derived, is to strain, to draw, and thus to bind or make fast. A rope or cable is that which makes fast. Heb.  1. Belief; the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, resting on his authority and veracity, without other evidence; the judgment that what another states or testifies is the truth. I have strong faith or no faith in the testimony of a witness, or in what a historian narrates.  2. The assent of the mind to the truth of a proposition advanced by another; belief, or probable evidence of any kind.  3. In theology, the assent of the mind or understanding to the truth of what God has revealed. Simple belief of the scriptures, of the being and perfections of God, and of the existence, character and doctrines of Christ, founded on the testimony of the sacred writers, is called historical or speculative faith; a faith little distinguished from the belief of the existence and achievements of Alexander or of Cesar.  4. Evangelical, justifying, or saving faith, is the assent of the mind to the truth of divine revelation, on the authority of God's testimony, accompanied with a cordial assent of the will or approbation of the heart; an entire confidence or trust in God's character and declarations, and in the character and doctrines of Christ, with an unreserved surrender of the will to his guidance, and dependence on his merits for salvation. In other words, that firm belief of God's testimony, and of the truth of the gospel, which influences the will, and leads to an entire reliance on Christ for salvation.  Being justified by faith. Rom. 5.  Without faith it is impossible to please God. Heb. 11.  For we walk by faith, and not by sight. 2Cor. 5.  With the heart man believeth to righteousness. Rom. 10.  The faith of the gospel is that emotion of the mind, which is called trust or confidence, exercised towards the moral character of God, and particularly of the Savior.  Faith is an affectionate practical confidence in the testimony of God.  Faith is an affectionate practical confidence in the testimony of God.  Faith is a firm, cordial belief in the veracity of God, in all the declarations of his word; or a full and affectionate confidence in the certainty of those things which God has declared, and because he has declared them.  5. The object of belief; a doctrine or system of doctrines believed; a system of revealed truths received by Christians.  They heard only, that he who persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. Gal. 1.  6. The promises of God, or his truth and faithfulness.  shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? Rom. 3.  7. An open profession of gospel truth.  Your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. Rom. 1.  8. A persuasion or belief of the lawfulness of things indifferent.  Hast thou faith? Have it to thyself before God. Rom 14.  9. Faithfulness; fidelity; a strict adherence to duty and fulfillment of promises.  Her failing, while her faith to me remains, I would conceal.  Children in whom is no faith. Deut. 32.  10. Word or honor pledged; promise given; fidelity. He violated his plighted faith.  For you alone I broke my faith with injured Palamon.  11. Sincerity; honesty; veracity; faithfulness. We ought in good faith, to fulfill all our engagements.  12. Credibility or truth. Unusual.  The faith of the foregoing narrative'.

Nave's Topical Bible provides links for the word faith  as: 'General scriptures concerning:  2Sa 22:31; Ps 2:12; 5:11; 7:1; 9:9-10; 18:30; 32:10; 33:18-19; 34:1-8,22; 36:7; 40:4; 64:10; 78:5-7; 84:5,12; 112:5,7-8; 118:8-9; 125:1; 147:11; Pr 3:5; 14:26; 22:19; 28:25; 29:25; 30:5; Isa 10:20; 14:32; 26:3; 30:15; 57:13; Jer 17:7-8; 39:18; Na 1:7; Mt 9:22; 21:21-22; Mr 9:23-24; 11:23-24; Lu 7:50; 8:48-50; 17:5; 18:8; Joh 11:25-27; Ac 3:16; 13:48; 26:18; Ro 1:16-17; 4; 5:1; 9:31-33; 10:6-10; 11:20,23; 15:13; 1Co 1:21; 2:5; 12:8-9; 2Co 1:24; Ga 3; 5:22; Eph 2:8; 6:16; Col 1:23; 2:12; 1Th 2:13; 5:8; 2Th 2:13; 1Ti 1:5,19; 2:15; 4:10; 6:11-12,17; 2Ti 4:7-8; Heb 4:1-11; 6:1,7,12,18; 10:35,38-39; 11:1-39; 13:5-6; Jas 1:6; 2; 1Pe 1:5,7,9,21; 3:5; 1Jo 3:21; 5:4; Re 22:7.  See FAITH IN CHRIST:  ENJOINED:  Ex 14:13; Nu 21:34; De 1:21-31; 3:2,22; 7:17-21; 20:1; 31:6-8,23; Jos 1:5-9; 10:25; Jg 6:14-16; 2Ki 19:6-7; 2Ch 15:7; 16:9; 20:15,17,20; 32:7-8; Ne 4:14; Job 35:14; Ps 4:5; 27:14; 31:19,24; 37:3,5,7,39-40; 55:22; 62:8; 115:9,11; 130:7; Pr 3:5-6,24-26; 16:3; Isa 26:4,20; 35:3-4; 37:6; 41:10,13-14; 43:1-2,5,10; 44:2,8; 50:10; Jer 42:11; 49:11; Joe 2:21; 3:16; Hab 2:3-4; Zep 3:16-17; Zec 8:9; 9:12; Mt 6:25-34; 17:18-20; Mr 1:15; 11:22-24; Lu 12:22-32; 17:6.  INSTANCES OF: see after the following subtopic,  EXEMPLIFIED:  Ge 6:22; 16:13; 24:7,40; 48:21; 50:20,24; Ex 15:1-19; 18:11; Nu 10:29; 14:8-9; Jos 14:12; 1Sa 14:6; 17:36-37,45-47; 2Sa 7:28; 22:2-5; 23:5; 2Ki 18:5; 1Ch 28:20; 2Ch 13:10-11; 14:11; 20:12; 32:7-8; Ezr 8:22; Ne 1:8-10; 2:20; Job 4:7-21; 5:8-9; 10:12; 13:15; 14:15; 16:19; 19:25-27; 23:6; 42:2; Ps 3:3,5-6; 4:3,8; 6:8-9; 7:1,10; 9:3-4; 11:1; 13:5; 16:1-2,5,8,11; 17:6; 18:1-3,18,28-29; 20:5-7; 21:7; 22:4-5; 23; 25:1-2,5,15,20; 26:1,12-27:1; 27:5-6,10; 28:7; 31:1,3-6,14-15; 32:7; 33:20-22; 35:10; 38:9; 39:7; 40:3-4,17; 41:12; 42:5-6,8; 43:5; 44:5,8; 46:1-3,5,7; 47:3-4; 48:8,14; 52:8; 54:4; 55:16-17,23; 56:3-4,8-9,11; 57:1-3; 59:9-10,17; 60:9-10,12; 61:2,4,6-7; 62:1,5-7; 63:6-7; 66:9; 67:6; 69:19,35-36; 70:5-71:1; 71:3,5-7,14,16,20-21; 73:23-24,26,28; 74:12; 77:10-12; 86:2,7; 89:18,26; 90:1; 91:1-2,9-10; 92:10,15; 94:14-15,17-18,22; 102:13; 108:10-13; 115:12-14; 116:7; 118:6-7,10,14,17; 119:42-43,57,74,81,114,151,166; 121:2; 124:8; 130:5-6; 138:7-8; 140:6-7,12; 141:8; 142:3,5; 143:8-9; 144:2,10; Ec 11:1; Isa 8:10,17; 12:2; 25:9; 26:1,8; 33:2,22; 38:16; 50:7-9; 63:16; 64:8; Jer 10:23; 14:9,22; 16:19; 17:12,17; 20:11; La 3:24-32; Da 3:16-17; 6:16; Jon 2:2-9; Mic 7:7-9,20; Hab 1:12; 3:17-19; Zep 3:12; Lu 1:38; 7:50; Joh 3:33; Ac 16:34; 24:14-15; 27:25; Ro 8:18,28,38-39; 15:29; 1Co 9:26; 2Co 1:10; 4:8-9,13,16-18; 5:7; Ga 5:5; Php 1:19-21; 1Ti 4:10; 2Ti 1:12; 2:11-13; Heb 10:34; 11:4-5,7-11,13-14,16-39; 13:14; 2Pe 3:13; 1Jo 4:16,  INSTANCES OF:  Noah, in building the ark:  Ge 6:14-22; Heb 11:7,  Abraham, in forsaking the land of his nativity at the command of God:  Ge 12:1-4,  Believing the promise of many descendants:  Ge 12:7; 15:4-8,  In the offering up of Isaac:  Ge 22:1-10; Ro 4:18-21; Heb 11:8-19,  Jacob, in blessing Joseph's sons:  Heb 11:21,  Joseph, concerning God's providence in his being sold into Egypt, and the final deliverance of Israel:  Ge 50:20; Heb 11:22,  Jochebed, in caring for Moses:  Ex 2:2; Heb 11:23,  Pharaoh's servants, who obeyed the Lord:  Ex 9:20,  Moses:  In espousing the cause of his people:  Heb 11:24-28,  At the death of Korah:  Nu 16:28-29,  The Israelites:  When Aaron declared the mission of himself and Moses:  Ex 4:31,  In the battle with the Canaanites:  1Ch 5:20,  And other conquests:  2Ch 13:8-18,  Caleb, in advising to take the land of promise:  Nu 13:30; 14:6-9,  Rahab, in hospitality to the spies:  Jos 2:9,11; Heb 11:31,  The spies, sent to reconnoiter Jericho:  Jos 2:24,  Conquest of Jericho:  Jos 6,  Manoah's wife:  Jg 13:23,  Hannah:  1Sa 1,  Jonathan, in stricking down the Philistines:  1Sa 14:6,  David, in striking down Goliath:  1Sa 17:37,46-47,  In choosing to fall into the hands of the Almighty for his punishment for counting the people of Israel:  2Sa 24:14,  In believing God's promise, that his kingdom would be a perpetual kingdom:  Ac 2:30,  Elijah, in his controversy with the priest of Baal:  1Ki 18:32-38,  Widow of Zarephath in feeding Elijah:  1Ki 17:13-15,  Amaziah, in dismissing the Ephraimites in obedience to the command of God, and going alone to battle against the Edomites:  2Ch 25:7-10,  Hezekiah:  2Ki 18:5; 19; 20:1-11,  Daniel, in the lions' den:  Da 6,  The three Hebrews, who refused to worship Nebuchadnezzars idol:  Da 3:13-27,  Ninevites, in obeying Jonah:  Jon 3:5,  Ezra, in making the journey from Babylon to Jerusalem without a military escort:  Ezr 8:22,  Joseph, in obeying the vision about Mary and to flee into Egypt:  Mt 1:18-24; 2:13-14,  Abel:  Heb 11:4,  Eliphaz, in the overruling providence of God, that afflictions are for the good of the righteous:  Job 5:6-27,  Mordecai, in the deliverance of the Jews:  Es 4:14,  Simeon, when he saw Jesus in the temple courtyard:  Lu 2:25-35,  Conquests by:  Heb 11:32-34,  See FAITH, TRIAL OF, below:  IN CHRIST:  Isa 28:16; Mt 7:24-25; 8:2,13; 9:22,29; 11:6,28-30; 14:27; 15:28; 17:7; Mr 5:36; 9:23; 16:16; Lu 6:46-49; 7:9,50; 8:50; 17:6; 18:42; Joh 1:12; 3:14-16,18,36; 5:24; 6:20,29,35,45,47; 7:38; 9:35; 11:25-26,40; 12:36,44,46; 13:7,20; 14:1,11-12; 16:27,33; 18:37; 20:27,29,31; Ac 3:16; 10:43; 15:9,11; 16:31; 20:21; 26:18; Ro 3:22-28; 9:33; 10:4,9; Ga 2:16; 3; 5:6; Eph 1:12-14; 3:12,17; 4:13; Php 3:9; Col 2:7; 1Ti 1:16; 2Ti 1:13; 2:1; 3:15; Heb 4:16; 6:19; 10:22; 12:2; 13:7; 1Pe 1:8; 2:6-7; 2Pe 1:1; 1Jo 3:23; 5:4-5,10,13-14; Jude 1:21; Re 1:17; 3:18,20.  IN CHRIST, EXEMPLIFIED:  Mt 8:2,5-10; 9:18,21,28; 14:33; 15:26-28; 16:16; Mr 5:28; 7:27-30; 9:24; Lu 5:5; 7:3-9; 23:42; Joh 4:29,42; 6:14,68-69; 7:31; 9:38; 10:41-42; 11:21-22,27,32; 16:30; 20:28; Ac 8:37; 11:17; Ro 7:24-25; 8:35,37; 2Co 12:9-10; Ga 2:20; Php 4:13; 1Ti 1:14; 2Ti 1:12; 4:18.  INSTANCES OF FAITH IN CHRIST:  The wise men from the east:  Mt 2:1-2,11,  Peter:  Mt 4:18-22; Mr 1:16-20; Lu 5:4-5; Joh 6:68-69,  Andrew:  Mt 4:18-22; Mr 1:16-20; Joh 1:41,  James and John:  Mt 4:21-22; Mr 1:19-20,  The woman with the issue of blood:  Mt 9:21-22,  Jairus, for the healing of his daughter:  Mt 9:18,23-25,  Two blind men:  Mt 9:29-30,  Blind Bartimaeus and a fellow blind man:  Mt 20:30-34; Mr 10:46-52; Lu 18:35-42,  The Samaritan leper:  Lu 17:11-19,  The sick people of Gennesaret:  Mt 14:36; Mr 3:10; 6:54-56,  Those who brought the paralyzed man to Jesus:  Lu 5:18-20,  The Syrophoenician woman:  Mt 15:22-28; Mr 7:25-30,  The woman who anointed Jesus' feet:  Lu 7:36-50,  Those who brought those who were sick with palsy:  Mt 9:2,  Philip:  Joh 1:45-46,  Nathanael:  Joh 1:49,  The Samaritans, who believed,  Through the preaching of Jesus:  Joh 4:39-42,  Through the preaching of Philip:  Ac 8:9-12,  The nobleman whose child was sick:  Joh 4:46-53,  Abraham:  Joh 8:56,  The blind man whom Jesus healed on the Sabbath:  Joh 9:13-38,  Mary, the sister of Martha:  Lu 10:38-42; Joh 11:32,  John the disciple:  Joh 20:8,  The disciples, through the miracle at Cana of Galilee:  Joh 2:11,  Jews at Jerusalem:  Joh 2:23; 8:30; 11:45; 12:11,  About three-thousand people on the day of Pentecost:  Ac 2:41,  About five-thousand people:  Ac 4:4,  Multitudes:  Ac 5:14,  The crippled man at Lystra:  Ac 14:9,  Stephen:  Ac 6:8,  The Ethiopian eunuch:  Ac 8:37,  The people of Lydda and Sharon:  Ac 9:35,  The people of Joppa:  Ac 9:42,  The people of Antioch:  Ac 11:21-24,  Barnabas:  Ac 11:24,  Eunice, Lois, and Timothy:  2Ti 1:5; Ac 16:1,  Lydia:  Ac 16:14,  The Philippian jailor:  Ac 16:31-34,  Crispus:  Ac 18:8,  The Corinthians:  Ac 18:8; 1Co 15:11,  Jews at Rome:  Ac 28:24,  Ephesians:  Eph 1:13,15,  Colossians:  Col 1:2,4,  Thessalonians:  1Th 1:6; 3:6-8; 2Th 1:3-4,  Philemon:  Phm 1:5,  The congregation at Thyatira::  Re 2:19.  TRIAL OF:  1Ch 29:17; Ps 26:2; 81:7; Mt 13:19-22; 24:21-25; Lu 8:13-14; 2Th 1:3-5; Heb 6:13-15; Jas 1:3,12; 1Pe 1:7.  INSTANCES OF TRIAL OF:  Noah:  Ge 6:14-22; Heb 11:7,  Abraham, when commanded to leave his native land and to go where he did not know:  Ge 12:1-4; Heb 11:8,  Abraham, when commanded to offer Isaac:  Ge 22:1-19; Heb 11:17-19,  Moses, when sent to Pharaoh:  Ex 3:11-12; 4:10-17; Heb 11:25-29,  Moses, at the Red Sea, by the complaints of the people:  Ex 14; 15,  Joshua and the people of Israel, in the method of taking Jericho:  Jos 6; Heb 11:30,  Gideon, when commanded to deliver Israel:  Jg 6:36-40; 7; Heb 11:32,  Job, by affliction and adversity:  Job 1; 2,  Ezra, in leaving Babylon without a military escort:  Ezr 8:22,  Daniel, when forbidden to pray to Jehovah:  Da 6:4-23; Heb 11:32-33,  The three Hebrews, when commanded to worship the image:  Da 3:8-30; Heb 11:32-34,  The Syrophoenician woman:  Mt 15:21-28; Mr 7:24-30,  The two blind men who appealed to Jesus for sight:  Mt 9:28,  The disciples, when Jesus came walking upon the Sea of Galilee:  Mt 14:25-33,  The disciples:  By the question of Jesus, as to who he was:  Mt 16:15-20; Lu 9:20-21,  By their inability to cast out the evil spirit from the epileptic boy:  Mt 17:14-21; Mr 9:14-29; Lu 9:37-42,  In the tempest at sea:  Mt 8:23-27; Mr 4:36-41; Lu 8:22-26,  Of Philip, when questioned by Jesus as to how the multitude would be fed:  Joh 6:5-6,  Of Peter, when asked whether he loved Jesus:  Joh 21:16-17,  SUM TOTAL OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND LIFE:  Ro 1:8; Jude 1:3'.

Thompson Chain Topics provides links for the word faith  as: 'Select Reading He.11:  Heb 11.  General References to:  Lu 17:5; 18:8; Ro 10:17; 14:23; 2Co 5:7; Ga 5:6; 1Ti 1:5; Heb 11:1,39; Jas 2:17; 1Jo 5:4.  Faith Enjoined, Reasons for:  Assures Success:  2Ch 20:20; Mr 11:2; Lu 8:50.  A Fundamental Duty:  Joh 6:28-29; 20:27.  A Defensive Weapon:  Eph 6:16; 1Th 5:8; 1Ti 1:19; 6:12; Heb 10:22.  An Indispensable Element in Religion:  Heb 11:6.  Essential in Prayer:  Jas 1:5-6.  Should Be United with Love:  1Jo 3:23.  Justification by:  Ge 15:6; Hab 2:4; Ac 13:39; Ro 3:28; 4:3; 5:1,18; 9:30; 1Co 6:11; Ga 3:6,24; Php 3:9; Heb 10:38; 11:4 .  Blessings according to:  Mt 8:13; 9:29-30; 17:20; 21:21; Mr 9:23.  Example of Victorious:  Abraham:  Ge 22:8.  Caleb:  Jos 14:12.  Jonathan:  1Sa 14:6.  David:  1Sa 17:37.  Jehoshaphat:  2Ch 20:12; 32:7.  Job:  Job 19:25.  The Three Hebrew Captives:  Da 3:17.  Paul:  Ac 27:25; Ro 4:20.  The Ancient Worthies:  Heb 11:33.  Faith in Christ Secures Salvation:  Joh 3:16,36; 5:24; 6:40; 11:25; 12:46; 20:31; Ac 8:37; 10:43; 13:39; 16:31; Ro 9:33; 10:9; 2Ti 3:15; 1Jo 5:1.  Great, Example of:  The Leper:  Mt 8:2.  The Centurion:  Mt 8:10.  The Ruler:  Mt 9:18.  The Blind Man:  Mt 9:28.  The Diseased:  Mt 14:36.  The Syrophenician woman:  Mt 15:28.  The Afflicted woman:  Mr 5:28.  Promises to those who Exercise:  Answer to Prayer:  Mt 21:22.  Sonship:  Joh 1:12; 7:38.  Power:  Joh 14:12; Ro 10:11; Col 1:23.  Soul Rest:  Heb 4:3.  Spiritual Inheritance:  Jas 2:5.  Spiritual Foundation:  1Pe 2:6.  Spiritual Assurance:  1Jo 5:14.  Aids to:  Ex 4:5; 19:9; Isa 41:20; 43:10; Joh 1:7; 11:15,42; 13:19; 14:29; 17:21; 19:35; 20:31 .  Little:  Instances of Weak Faith:  Mt 6:30; 8:26; 14:31; 16:8.  Tested:  Of Abraham:  Ge 22:2.  By a strange plan of campaign:  Jos 6:3.  By reducing a general's army:  Jg 7:7.  By requiring dependence upon a poor widow:  1Ki 17:9.  By demanding the last morsel of bread:  1Ki 17:13.  By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work:  2Ki 3:6.  By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight:  2Ki 4:3.  Other examples of:  Mt 9:28; Mr 7:27; Heb 11:8,17,36; Jas 1:3; 1Pe 1:7.  Obstacles that Test the Faith of Believers:  Lack of Sympathy on the part of the Church:  Mt 15:23; Mr 10:13.  Discouraging Circumstances:  Lu 5:18-19.  Unbelieving Friends:  Mr 5:35.  Scoffers:  Joh 9:24.  Divine Delays, not a hindrance but a test:  Joh 11:3-6 .  Honoured by Christ and the Apostles:  Mr 1:41; 2:5; 5:34; 7:29; 10:52; Lu 7:10; 17:14; Joh 4:51; 9:7; Ac 14:9.  Defended:  Ga 2:11; Php 1:17,27; Tit 1:13; Jude 1:3.  Obstacles that Test the Faith of Believers:  Lack of Sympathy on the part of the Church:  Mt 15:23; Mr 10:13.  Discouraging Circumstances:  Lu 5:18-19.  Unbelieving Friends:  Mr 5:35.  Scoffers:  Joh 9:24.  Divine Delays, not a hindrance but a test:  Joh 11:3-6 .  Weak:  Instances of Weak Faith:  Mt 6:30; 8:26; 14:31; 16:8
Aids to Faith:  Ex 4:5; 19:9; Isa 41:20; 43:10; Joh 1:7; 11:15,42; 13:19; 14:29; 17:21.  19:35; 20:31
Blessings According to faith:  Mt 8:13; 9:29-30; 17:20; 21:21; Mr 9:23
Faith's Touch:  Brought Healing to those who Touched Him:  Mt 9:20-22; 14:34-36; Mr 3:10; Lu 6:19
Fight of Faith:  (Exhortations to those Engaged in):  1Ki 2:2; 2Ch 15:7; Isa 35:4; Hag 2:4; Zec 8:9; 1Co 16:13; Eph 6:10; 2Ti 2:1
Little Faith:  Instances of Weak Faith:  Mt 6:30; 8:26; 14:31; 16:8
Saving Faith:  (Faith in Christ Secures Salvation):  Joh 3:16,36; 5:24; 6:40; 11:25; 12:46; 20:31; Ac 8:37; 10:43; 13:39; 16:31; Ro 9:33; 10:9; 2Ti 3:15; 1Jo 5:1.'

Torrey's Topical Textbook provides links for the word faith  as: 'Is the substance of things hoped for:  Heb 11:1.  Is the evidence of things not seen:  Heb 11:1.  Commanded:  Mt 11:22; 1Jo 3:23.  THE OBJECTS OF, ARE  God:  Joh 14:1.  Christ:  Joh 6:29; Ac 20:21.  Writings of Moses:  Joh 5:46; Ac 24:14.  Writings of the prophets:  2Ch 20:20; Ac 26:27.  The gospel:  Mr 1:15.  Promises of God:  Ro 4:21; Heb 11:13.  IN CHRIST IS  The gift of God:  Ro 12:3; Eph 2:8; 6:23; Php 1:29.  The work of God:  Ac 11:21; 1Co 2:5.  Precious:  2Pe 1:1.  Most holy:  Jude 1:20.  Fruitful:  1Th 1:3.  Accompanied by repentance:  Mr 1:15; Lu 24:47.  Followed by conversion:  Ac 11:21.  Christ is the Author and Finisher of:  Heb 12:2.  Is a gift of the Holy Ghost:  1Co 12:9.  The Scriptures designed to produce:  Joh 20:31; 2Ti 3:15.  Preaching designed to produce:  Joh 17:20; Ac 8:12; Ro 10:14-15,17; 1Co 3:5.  THROUGH IT IS  Remission of sins:  Ac 10:43; Ro 3:25.  Justification:  Ac 13:39; Ro 3:21-22,28; 5:1; Ga 2:16.  Salvation:  Mr 16:16; Ac 16:31.  Sanctification:  Ac 15:9; 26:18.  Spiritual light:  Joh 12:36,46.  Spiritual life:  Joh 20:31; Ga 2:20.  Eternal life:  Joh 3:15; 6:40,47.  Rest in heaven:  Heb 4:3.  Edification:  1Ti 1:4; Jude 1:20.  Preservation:  1Pe 1:5.  Adoption:  Joh 1:12; Ga 3:26.  Access to God:  Ro 5:2; Eph 3:12.  Inheritance of the promises:  Ga 3:22; Heb 6:12.  The gift of the Holy Ghost:  Ac 11:15-17; Ga 3:14; Eph 1:13.  Impossible to please God without:  Heb 11:6.  Justification is by, to be of grace:  Ro 4:16.  Essential to the profitable reception of the gospel:  Heb 4:2.  Necessary in the Christian warfare:  1Ti 1:18; 6:12.  The gospel effectual in those who have:  1Th 2:13.  Excludes self-justification:  Ro 10:3-4.  Excludes boasting:  Ro 3:27.  Works by love:  Ga 5:6; 1Ti 1:5; Phm 1:5.  PRODUCES  Hope:  Ro 5:2.  Joy:  Ac 16:34; 1Pe 1:8.  Peace:  Ro 15:13.  Confidence:  Isa 28:16; 1Pe 2:6.  Boldness in preaching:  Ps 116:10; 2Co 4:13.  Christ is precious to those having:  1Pe 2:7.  Christ dwells in the heart by:  Eph 3:17.  Necessary in prayer:  Mt 21:22; Jas 1:6.  Those who are not Christ's have not:  Joh 10:26-27.  An evidence of the new birth:  1Jo 5:1.  BY IT SAINTS:  Live:  Ga 2:20.  Stand:  Ro 11:20; 2Co 1:24.  Walk:  Ro 4:12; 2Co 5:7.  Obtain a good report:  Heb 11:2.  Overcome the world:  1Jo 5:4-5.  Resist the devil:  1Pe 5:9.  Overcome the devil:  Eph 6:16.  Are supported:  Ps 27:13; 1Ti 4:10.  Saints die in:  Heb 11:13.  SAINTS SHOULD  Be sincere in:  1Ti 1:5; 2Ti 1:5.  Abound in:  2Co 8:7.  Continue in:  Ac 14:22; Col 1:23.  Be strong in:  Ro 4:20-24.  Stand fast in:  1Co 16:13.  Be grounded and settled in:  Col 1:23.  Hold, with a good conscience:  1Ti 1:19.  Pray for the increase of:  Lu 17:5.  Have full assurance of:  2Ti 1:12; Heb 10:22.  True, evidenced by its fruits:  Jas 2:21-25.  Without fruits, is dead:  Jas 2:17,20,26.  Examine whether you be in:  2Co 13:5.  All difficulties overcome by:  Mt 17:20; 21:21; Mr 9:23.  All things should be done in:  Ro 14:22.  Whatever is not of, is sin:  Ro 14:23.  Often tried by affliction:  1Pe 1:6-7.  Trial of, works patience:  Jas 1:3.  The wicked often profess:  Ac 8:13,21.  The wicked destitute of:  Joh 10:25; 12:37; Ac 19:9; 2Th 3:2.  Protection of, illustrated:  A shield, Eph 6:16.  A breastplate, 1Th 5:8.  Exemplified:  Caleb, Nu 13:30.  Job, Job 19:25.  Shadrach, etc. Da 3:17.  Daniel, Da 6:10,23.  Peter, Mt 16:16.  Woman who was a sinner, Lu 7:50.  Nathanael, Joh 1:49.  Samaritans, Joh 4:39.  Martha, Joh 11:27.  The Disciples, Joh 16:30.  Thomas, Joh 20:28.  Stephen, Ac 6:5.  Priests, Ac 6:7.  Ethiopian, Ac 8:37.  Barnabas, Ac 11:24.  Sergius Paulus, Ac 13:12.  Philippian jailor, Ac 16:31,34.  Romans, Ro 1:8.  Colossians, Col 1:4.  Thessalonians, 1Th 1:3.  Lois, 2Ti 1:5.  Paul, 2Ti 4:7.  Abel, Heb 11:4.  Enoch, Heb 11:5.  Noah, Heb 11:7.  Abraham, Heb 11:8,17.  Isaac, Heb 11:20.  Jacob, Heb 11:21.  Joseph, Heb 11:22.  Moses, Heb 11:24,27.  Rahab, Heb 11:31.  Gideon etc. Heb 11:32-33,39'.

Below are notes on verses which use the word faith.

Please be sure to read the notes mentioned at the start of this Study as they cover important doctrinal considerations of the true meaning of the word faith.  There is a lot of doctrinal error believed about this word including beliefs that the true definition of this word includes the definitions of other Bible words or includes the application of this word or includes some religious definition.  God does not cause confusion.  God does not change (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8).  God would have to change and be the author of confusion if two different Bible words had the same definitions.

A very important sentence, for our consideration, is: Galatians 3:23, which says: But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed  Combine this with Romans 3:20, which says: Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.  God gave the law to show men that they could not earn Heaven but religious liars claimed that keeping the law, and their religious traditions, forced God to open Heaven to them.  Thus, we see that God acted one way for one purpose but religious liars perverted the message from God in order to support their religious lies.

The word faith  occurs 247 times in 231 verses of the Bible but only twice in the Old Testament.  Obviously, faith  is mainly a doctrinal consideration of the New Testament.  Yes, we read about Old Testament saints having faith,  especially in Hebrews 11.  However, as our prior paragraph pointed out, God did not demand His people deal with Him in faith  until the New Testament.

Now, faith  is a critical and demanded part of the New Testament.  People who teach and preach that our salvation and sanctification are dependent upon keeping laws are rejecting a critical foundation of the New Testament.  There is reason to believe that 20,000 souls were saved through the Jerusalem Church.  Yet God destroyed that church, and had the Temple torn down, because they insisted that salvation of Jews required the work of circumcision.  They refused doctrinal correction from God.  Likewise, many groups of today call themselves a 'Christian Church' even while they reject the foundational part of the New Testament called faith.  They insist upon doctrinal error when they teach that salvation and sanctification require works.

Related to that doctrinal error are two different doctrinal errors which claim that our Heavenly rewards and/or punishments are NOT dependent upon our working for God's kingdom, in this physical life.  The Bible actually teaches that our Heavenly rewards and/or punishments are based strictly upon our true faith,  and obedience, in the commandments of the New Testament.  The first doctrinal error claims that we receive all Heavenly rewards as soon as we are saved and that our works for God's kingdom yield nothing.  The second doctrinal error claims that there are no punishments in Heaven with the main related claim being 'No tears in Heaven'.  In many places, especially on ljc1611kjv.com, I explain why both of these doctrines are lies from devils and go against what the word of God actually teaches in the New Testament.

There is a valid argument that rejecting a major doctrine of the word of God is rejecting God's true salvation.  You cannot accept a contract / covenant at the same time as you reject a major part of that contract / covenant.  No, we cannot lose true salvation by accepting these lies after receiving true salvation.  However, accepting these doctrinal lies can, and often does, prevent someone from accepting true Biblical salvation.

• Deuteronomy 32:20 says: And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith  Even thought God put the Jews under the law, He still honored true faith  and hide His face from  the froward generation  because they sought excuses for living in sin.
• Habakkuk 2:4 says: Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.  This verse is quoted in Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Hebrews 10:38 and referenced many places on ljc1611kjv.com.  Here, even under the Old Testament, God told His people how to be truly saved.  Remember that the Mosaic Law only condemned men and did not literally say how to be explicitly saved.
• Matthew 6:30 says: Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?.  We read the phrase little faith  in: Matthew 6:30; Matthew 14:31; Matthew 16:8 and Luke 12:28.  Notice that most of these references are in Matthew and Matthew tells us how Jesus  fulfilled the Mosaic Law.  The Mosaic Law was not against faith,  it just did not demand it like the New Testament does.  In context, Jesus  continues with: Matthew 6:31-33 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Thus, our first reference in the New Testament tells us that Jesus  taught about faith.
• Matthew 8:10 says: When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.  Here, Jesus  found true understanding of faith  in a Gentile who had not been taught by a religious leader.  People, wrongly, claim that spiritual truths, such as salvation, can only be taught by a religious leader when God's Holy Spirit  does not have to work through a man.
• Matthew 8:26 says: And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.  This was when the disciples failed a test of true faith.  If they failed, and did not receive the reward for passing the test, then we also can fail God's test.  The claim that we receive all rewards simply because we are saved is a lie.  God is wasting His time giving tests if there is no consequence to failing a test from God.
• Matthew 9:1-2 says: And he entered into a ship, and passed over, and came into his own city. And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.  This is the same incident as Mark 2:5 and Luke 5:20.  This is the start of an incident where the Pharisees were upset because what Jesus  said could only be done by God.  Jesus  proved that he was God in human flesh, but the Pharisees rejected His proof and that is how this report is almost always taught.  But, stop and think about what our sentences are telling us about faith.  What was shown was not the faith  of the man forgiven.  Therefore. our true faith  can make a spiritual difference in others.  Next, they brought their friend for healing and Jesus  responds with be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee.  This is like when we pray for one thing and God responds with some unrelated response that makes people ask why God responded like he did.  But God knows what is best and when we receive a weird response from God we need to accept that there is more going on than we realize.  God always responds with the best answer even when we don't understand how His response is best.  When that happens, God is testing our own level of faith  so that He can reward us if we respond to His test the right way.
• Matthew 9:22 says: But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.  This is about the time that Jesus.  was going to a ruler's house because his daughter was dead.  On the way, a woman which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.  We see that God is never too busy to respond to our true demonstration of faith.
• Matthew 9:29 says: Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.  After the prior incidents of this chapter, Jesus  was met by two blind men who asked Him to give them sight.  As Jesus  said in this answer, our level of faith can limit our level of a miracle received from God.  And, I write this as someone who has received 'undeniable miracles' more than one time.
• Matthew 14:31 says: And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?  This was when Jesus  sent His disciples across the sea and they were caught in a storm.  When Jesus  came walking on the water, then Peter called out to Him and then Peter walked on water.  But, he took his eyes off Jesus  and started to sink.  As if often preached about this incident; 'We heed to keep our eyes on Jesus  while we are being given a test of our faith'.
• Matthew 15:28 says: Matthew 15:28 Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.  This is when a Gentile woman asked Jesus  to free her daughter from a devil.  First Jesus  said that He was not sent to Gentiles.  Then He called her a (female) dog.  She accepted all and said Truth, Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table.  The lesson is that we are to accept anything that God lays on us when we truly want blessings from God.  Most saved people lose out on blessings when they reject doctrinal corrections from God.
• Matthew 16:8 says: Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?  Jesus  had spoke a symbolic spiritual truth to His disciples and they misunderstood because they tried to apply what he said to the physical reality.  Much doctrinal error is due to people trying to apply symbolic spiritual truth to this physical reality.  We are to look for spiritual truths when reading the word of God.
• Matthew 17:20 says: And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.  Jesus  gave this answer when His disciples asked Him Why could not we cast him (the devil) out?.  Our own unbelief  limits God's work in our life.
• Matthew 21:21 tells us about Jesus  cursing the fig tree and telling His disciples Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.  Again, our level of true belief and faith controls what God can do in our life.
• Matthew 23:23 tells us that Jesus  condemned the scribes and Pharisees  for being all about physical religious traditions and not regarding true spiritual attitudes.
• Mark 2:5 says: When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.  This is the same incident as Matthew 9:1-2 and Luke 5:20.  Please see the note above for that verse.
• Mark 4:40 says: Mark 4:40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?  Please see the note for this verse on ljc1611kjv.com for references to matching incidents in other Gospels.  The disciples were in a ship, with Jesus in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow  and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?  We need to have true faith  that God is in complete control when facing upsetting tests from God.  Since Jesus was he hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow,  there really was no reason to worry.  We need to recognize when God is giving us a test.
• Mark 5:34 says: And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.  This is the same incident as Matthew 9:22.  Please see the note above for that verse.
• Mark 10:52 says: And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.  This is the end of the account of blind Bartimaeus.  The link, above, takes to the account on ljc1611kjv.com, where the accounts explained along with links to where the account is also told in other Gospels.  Blind Bartimaeus threw away his beggar garment before going to Jesus.  That action proved his faith  that Jesus  would heal him.  As the true definition says, true Biblical faith  is an action word and we need to act to prove out faith  before God gives us a blessing such as a miracle.
• Mark 11:22 says: And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.  This is the same account as Matthew 21:21 about Jesus  cursing the fig tree.  In both accounts, Jesus  tells us that our having God work for us requires our having true Biblical faith.
• Luke 5:20 says: And when he saw their faith, he said unto him, Man, thy sins are forgiven thee.  This is the same incident as Matthew 9:1-2 and Mark 2:5.  Please see the notes for those verses also.  As already mentioned, Jesus  dealt with him because of the faith  of his friends.  Our faith  can affect others.  Also, they brought him for healing but Jesus  dealt with a deeper issue.  We must have enough faith  that God knows what is best, especially when God acts differently than we expect.
• Luke 7:9 says: When Jesus heard these things, he marvelled at him, and turned him about, and said unto the people that followed him, I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.  This incident was also dealt with in Matthew 8:10.  Here, Jesus  found true understanding of faith  in a Gentile who had not been taught by a religious leader.  People, wrongly, claim that spiritual truths, such as salvation, can only be taught by a religious leader when God's Holy Spirit  does not have to work through a man.
• Luke 7:50 says: And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace.  This was when Jesus  was at a meal with a Pharisee, shortly before His crucifixion.  Mary Magdalene came in and washed His feet with het tears and hair and broke an expensive bottle of perfume to anoint His feet.  Jesus  said that she anointed Him for His burial after the disciples refused to believe His telling them that He would be killed.  She demonstrated her true Biblical faith  in the message of God, which went against religious traditions, by her action.
• Luke 8:25 says: And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.  This is the same incident as reported in Matthew 8:26.  One of the doctrines presented on ljc1611kjv.com is called Jesus Used the Power of the Holy Ghost.  He set aside His own power as God in order to be born, live and die as a literal physical man.  This is the same Holy Ghost  which is given to us.  The disciples were amazed at the power of God's Holy Ghost  which worked through Him.  No, I haven't experienced this level of power nor do I know of anyone who has.  However, Jesus  taught that the main limit is our own level of thru Biblical faith.
• Luke 8:48 says: And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.  This deals with the same incident as Matthew 9:22.  Please see the note for that verse about this verse.  She believed and acted on her belief which made it true faith  and Jesus  said that her true faith  is what got her the desired miracle.
• Luke 12:28 says: If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?  Almost all of this chapter is the teaching of Jesus.  In this section, Jesus  said that they had little faith  because they were worried about providing physical things.  I went to the mission field more than ten (10) years ago.  I had to learn to grow my faith  to the point that I completely trusted God for my physical needs.  I, eventually, gave all of my savings to missions.  God had me return to the U.S. where I live on Social Security and have experienced devils trying to destroy my finances multiple times.  It takes spiritual growth, through maintaining a personal relationship with Jesus,  to spiritually mature to the point of total dependence on God for physical needs.  However, such spiritual growth is possible.
• Luke 17:5-6 says: Luke 17:5-6 And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.  This chapter starts with Jesus  warning His disciples about future troubles they will experience from religious people.  That led to the sentences quoted.  The disciples realized that they needed an effective prayer life to deal with those future problems.  Notice that Jesus  started His answer by telling then that they needed an effective level of faith.
• Luke 17:19 says: And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way: thy faith hath made thee whole.  In this incident, Jesus  cleansed ten (10) lepers.  Only one returned and thanked God.  He was the only one who was also saved.  Receiving a miracle from God does not necessarily mean that you are saved.  However, true Biblical faith  requires us to give God the glory when he does something for us.  And, demonstrating true Biblical faith,  by giving God the glory for his miracle, is what led to his true salvation.  We need to truly give God the glory any time that he does something special for us.
• Luke 18:8 says: I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?  This verse is referenced in the note for Titus 1:9.  (Please also see that note.)  Jesus  asked this question most religious doctrine fights against true Biblical faith  by telling people to trust keeping their religious rules instead of developing their personal relationship with Jesus.
• Luke 18:42 says: And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.  This incident was also reported in Mark 10:52 about Blind Bartimaeus.  He kept loudly asking for a miracle even when people tried to quiet him.  True Biblical faith  requires is to keep seeking help from God even when religious people, and others, try to quiet us.
• Luke 22:32 says: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.  This was part of what Jesus  told Peter before Peter denied Him.  This is the main job that God gives His people when their true Biblical faith  is increased.  We are commanded to strengthen thy brethren  after we are converted  ('we are changed by Spiritual maturing about our faith').
• Acts 3:16 says: And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.  After Pentecost, Peter and John went to the Temple to worship God.  At the door of the Temple, they met a certain man lame from his mother's womb  who was begging and was well known by everyone.  Peter used his own faith in the name of Jesus  healed the man.  (This proves 'faith healers' to be liars when they claim that the lack of the other's faith  prevented healing.)  After healing the man, Peter and John entered the Temple with the man leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.  (The man gave glory to God as is expected when we receive a blessing from God.)  He4 drew a big crowd and Peter preached, which included this sentence which says that faith in his name (Jesus Christ) hath made this man strong.  Of course, the religious leaders had a fit, arrested Peter and John, kept them all night, beat them and demanded that they stop speaking the name of Jesus.  Religious people often get mad and even persecute true demonstrations of true Biblical faith.
• Acts 6:5-6 says: And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.  This is the appointment of the first deacons.  All church staff are supposed to demonstrate true Biblical faith before they are appointed to their position.
• Acts 6:7 says: And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.  This is the result of the prior referenced verse and the demonstration of true Biblical faith  by Peter and John.  This is why God wants His people to demonstrate true Biblical faith  and then give God the glory.  The salvation of others results.
• Acts 6:8 says: And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.  This tells us that the next incident, which is reported, was due to an additional demonstration of true Biblical faith.
• Acts 11:24 says: For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.  This describes Barnabas, the first pastor of the church of Antioch.  Notice that our sentence says: much people was added unto the Lord.  Our sentence says: Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul: And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.  The preaching of Barnabas led to souls being saved.  The teaching of Paul led to the saved being called Christians  for the first time.  Both require true Biblical faith.  However, receiving a changed life, from Christ  and having the lost word call you a Christian,  requires more spiritual maturity.  This is what God wants from all of His people.  God brought persecution of t6he Jerusalem Church, scattered them and eventually destroyed that church and the Temple and killed many of the saved because they refused to mature spiritually and insisted on keeping religious traditions for salvation and sanctification.
• Acts 13:8 says: But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.  Just as the prior sentence told us about saved religious people rejecting true Biblical faith,  this sentence tells us about a lost man trying to do the same.  Devils use carnal saved people and lost people to fight against true Biblical faith.
• Acts 14:8-010 says: And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked.  This incident happened to Paul's mission group as they were being run out of various cities for preaching the Gospel.  This is the same reaction, to true Biblical faith  as we read about in Acts 3.  In both cases the preaching team were being persecuted.  In both cases we see a demonstration of true Biblical faith,  with God demonstrating His power as a result.  When people complain about God letting them experience 'bad circumstances', they are proving their spiritual immaturity.  However, the truly spiritually mature understand that these times are when to exercise true Biblical faith  in expectation of seeing God work.
• Acts 14:21-22 says: And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch, Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.  This was after Jews came from other cities, stoned Paul and left him for dead outside of the city.  We see Paul heading for Antioch and encouraging the true Christians  to keep true Biblical faith  in spite of persecution.  Devils aren't as worried about carnal saved people as they are spiritually mature Christians  who are actually doing the 'Great Commission'.
• Acts 14:27 says: And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.  This is what Paul and Barnabas first reported to the Jerusalem Church when they went to the 'Church Council at Jerusalem'.  They reported true Biblical faith  as evidence of God working.  Other Jews, who were there, insisted that keeping religious traditions was evidence of approval by God.  God destroyed the Jerusalem Church for sticking with religious traditions while He used the Church of Antioch to spread the Gospel which relied on evidence of true Biblical faith.
• Acts 15:7-9 says: And when there had been much disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.  This was Paul's main argument at the 'Church Council at Jerusalem'.  The church could not argue against demonstration of true Biblical faith.  Nor could they deny evidence of true salvation in an uncircumcised Gentile.  But they were not willing to give up on religious traditions.  So, they chose doctrinal error by claiming that God had one way for saving Jews and another way for saving Gentiles.  Any time people, especially preachers and other religious leaders, choose religious traditions which are directly opposed by demonstrations of true Biblical faith,  they are supporting doctrinal error.
• Acts 16:5 says: And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.  This chapter tells us about Paul taking Timothy and training him.  Paul taught Timothy to not only lead people to salvation but to also teach them to be established in the faith.  One problem of today, especially in America, is that pastors are so concerned with numbers that they no longer make sure that their church is established in the faith  but this church is a spiritual nursery.
• Acts 20:21 says: Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.  This is part of Paul's testimony to the church elders of Ephesus.  He was going to Jerusalem and told them And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there: Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.  True Biblical faith  requires us to obey personal commands from God's Holy Spirit,  no matter what is prophesied to be the results of our obedience.
• Acts 24:24 says: And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.  This is part of the account of Paul being arrested in Jerusalem because he upset religious Jews and he was arrested, even though he broke no law.  While I believe that Paul questioned God about his circumstances, this fulfilled the prophecy of our Lord Jesus Christ  that Paul would testify to kings.  We don't know everything and, at times, God is doing things that we are not aware of.  Therefore, true Biblical faith  requires us to trust that God knows what is best for our good and His glory.  We are to accept anything that He decides to put us through.
• Acts 26:18 says: To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.  Paul is testifying about His salvation and call to preach.  Here, he is relaying what our Lord Jesus Christ  told him to personally do.  True Biblical faith  requires us to accept that God saves up personally and that God has a personal plan for the life of every person whom He saves.  It is our personal responsibility to find out God's plan for our personal life and then do our best to fulfill it.  This is part of true Biblical faith.
• Romans 1:5 says: By whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:.  This is part of the introductory sentence of Romans (Romans 1:1-7) and has several pages of doctrine associated with it on ljc1611kjv.com.  The first sentences introduces everything found in the epistle and names our Lord Jesus Christ  four (4) ways using four (4)different titles for Him.  He is the him  in our verse and He is the godly power behind all responses to acts of true Biblical faith  found in the New Testament.  Our verse tells us that our Lord Jesus Christ  gives different saved people their spiritual gifts and jobs within God's kingdom that they are to do in their fleshly existence.  It also tells is that we are to obey the faith among all nations  and we are to bring glory to his name.  That is why we receive the spiritual gifts, jobs and positions in God's kingdom.
• Romans 1:8 says: First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.  This is the second sentence in Romans and is the first thing that Paul writes after his introduction sentence.  He wants us to Know how important it is that our true Biblical faith  is known throughout the whole world.
• Romans 1:11-12 says: Romans 1:11-12 For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith both of you and me.  Acts of true Biblical faith  are a comfort  to saved people who are truly serving God while lost and carnal people are upset by them.  This, people reveal their own spiritual maturity by how they react to acts of true Biblical faith.
• Romans 1:17 says: For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.  As already mentioned, this sentence references Habakkuk 2:4.  This sentences directly follows where Paul wrote For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ  and many people believe doctrinal error about the phrase gospel of Christ.  It is the 'the good news from God which causes spiritual maturity after initial spiritual conception'.  The word of God calls spiritual life being born again  and there are certainly many things in life which are not received at initial conception.  In addition, our quote is speaking about ongoing spiritual life (just shall live by faith)  which our sentence says requires ongoing faith.  And, as has been shown, true Biblical faith  requires ongoing actions which cause spiritual maturing.  There are spiritual things which are not given at initial spiritual conception but which are part of our true salvation ('ongoing spiritual life').  In addition, our sentence says: For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.  That means: 'The righteousness of God revealed in the life of a true believer from one act of faith to another act of faith'.  The righteousness of God  is NOT revealed.  when a person first gets saved but is revealed, in their life, as Christ  changes their life.
• Romans 3:3 says: For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged  The reader should make a separate study of the many places in Romans where we read: God forbid!.  There is absolutely no way that the unbelief  of anyone has the power to stop God from keeping His promises.  The faith of God  is the belief  that He gives believers which allows them to find and act upon promises, from God, found in the word of God.  If a true believed does what God requires then they will receive the promise of God and nothing and no being can prevent God from keeping His promise.  Devils get believers to believe that God lies because God, sometimes, does not act immediately.  There are promises to Abraham that are not yet fulfilled and he will return for the 1,000 year reign of Christ  in order for God to keep those promises.  So, we have to keep our faith  in God no matter when and how God keeps His promise to us.
• Romans 3:22 says: Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:.  This is part of a much larger sentence and parts of this sentence is often preached out of context of the rest of this sentence.  Many Bible School students had problems when I pointed out the full sentence to them.  That written, please see the note for this sentence, at ljc1611kjv.com, for the consideration of the full sentence and this note will only consider the use of the word faith  in this verse.  Jesus Christ  lived and dies with the faith  that He could change the lives of true believers.  It is only after we accept His faith  in our life that our life is changed and we start producing God's righteousness  in our own life.
• Romans 3:25 says: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;.  This is part of the same sentence as the prior verse.  As written, please see the note for this sentence, at ljc1611kjv.com, for the consideration of the full sentence and this note will only consider the use of the word faith  in this verse.  The whom.  of this verse, is Christ Jesus.  That means that we have to accept the spiritual growth, which comes through Christ Jesus,  in order to have his righteousness (applied to us) for the remission of sins that are past.  Notice that our verse says that He is a propitiation  but that that pole is applied to us only is we truly act through faith in his blood.  We are to act in obedience to Him In order for Christ Jesus  to apply His blood  to the legal record of our personal sins that are past  and receive legal remission  of those sins.
• Romans 3:27-28 says: Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.  Here we see the word faith  used trice.  This quote is the start of Paul's conclusion in his chapter on our being justified  in Heaven.  The Biblical definition of justified  is: 'Having our legal record purged so that, officially, my Heavenly record says that I never broke God's law'.  Without justification,  God has to punish us and this includes sins done after we are saved.  (They have a different punishment than what is given to the lost.)  In his conclusion, Paul writes that keeping the law  ('religious rules') cannot provide justification  while true Biblical faith  does produce justification.
• Romans 3:30-31 says: Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith. Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.  This is the final conclusion of this chapter.  The Mosaic Law only condemned.  Faith  justifies,  according to this chapter.  Those are opposite legal effects.  Specifying what one does cannot make void  the other.
• Romans 4:5 says: But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.  Paul is using Abraham's faith  as an example.  Two sentences prior we read; For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.  Then the prior sentence told us that if we worked for what God gave us, then it would not be given by grace  but that God would owe us for our work.  And, our quoted sentence tells us that we do not earn salvation but are given it by grace  because of our faith.  We do not force God to bless us but God honors true Biblical faith.
• Romans 4:9-10 says: Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also? for we say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness. How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, but in uncircumcision.  The Jews argued that salvation could only come after circumcision.  But Paul's argument says that Abraham was saved (received legal righteousness)  while he was in uncircumcision.  Therefore, salvation (receiving legal righteousness  from God) is due to faith  ('action based upon belief in God's promise')  and not to circumcision  nor any other religious work.
• Romans 4:11-12 says: Romans 4:11-12 And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also: And the father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet uncircumcised.  This sentence is added to the prior sentence (note above) by starting with the word and.  Here, Paul explains that circumcision  ('doing religious work') does not matter but that faith  ('action based upon belief in God's promise') is what matters with God.  We have a choice about salvation requiring a religious work.  We can treat God as a liar and obey men or we can treat men as liars and obey God.
• Romans 4:13 says: For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.  Our sentence continues the message of the prior sentences and tells us why they are true because it starts with the word for.  God determined that His promise would be made based upon the righteousness of faith.  It is not our words but the way that we live and act which reveals what is truly in our heart.  Our heart is where the righteousness of faith  must exist.  That is why Jesus  taught so much, in the Gospels, about our heart.
• Romans 4:14-15 says: For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression  and it gives another reason why God judges us based upon our heart.  The law only condemns and done not make us right.  If salvation was based upon the Law, then it makes faith void  and there is no basic for true salvation.  As our sentence then tells us, God's promise  is based upon faith  because it comes from our heart  and reveals what kind of people we truly are.  God wants people He can agree with in His home called Heaven.  He does not want Heaven filled with self-righteous people who feel that they earned Heaven and believe that God should have given them a better place because, in their opinion, they did more than someone else did.
• Romans 4:16-17 says: Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.  Our sentence has the conclusion (Therefore)  which God wanted Paul to write for us.  Everything in this chapter really leads up to this conclusion and all of it needs to be considered together.  Hebrews 11 is called 'the faith chapter' because it gives us Old Testament examples of true Biblical faith.  But, this chapter explains how true Biblical faith  really works and why God chose to use it for the basis of salvation and sanctification.  Both of those are based upon God's grace  and God's promise.  Only true Biblical faith  separates the people that God wants to save from everyone else.  God told Abraham that he would be a father of many nations.  Since laws change between nations, God had to have a basis which was greater than any law and which would remain true and valid regardless of what law was passed.  Again, please see the notes on ljc1611kjv.com for a more detailed explanation of what is in this chapter.
• Romans 4:19-21 says: And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.  This sentence tells us how Abraham acted in true Biblical faith.  He is our example to follow.  That is why true Biblical faith  requires us to believe every promise of God no matter how impossible the promise might seem when we consider the circumstances of life which we find ourselves in.
• Romans 5:1-2 says: Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  This gives us a conclusion (Therefore)  of the prior chapter and introduces the subject of this chapter.  Our sentence says that we have peace with God  but that peace is only through our Lord Jesus Christ.  If we walk away from true Biblical faith,  and our ongoing personal relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ,  We give up this peace.  Our sentence also tells us that we have access by faith into this grace  and that we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.  in addition, our next sentence, and the chapter tell us more blessings that we have but only through maintaining true Biblical faith.  What many people fail to understand is that all of the blessings, mentioned in this chapter, are only available through maintaining true Biblical faith.
• Romans 9:30-31 says: What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.  These sentences are explained in the next note.  Our current sentences tell us that Israel  hath not attained to the law of righteousness  because they tried to do so by keeping religious rules.  However, the Gentiles...have attained to righteousness  because they did it by seeking God's righteousness  which is of faith.
• Romans 9:32-33 says: Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.  The Jews stumbled  because they believed that keeping the Mosaic Law made them saved when it could only condemn them.  Other religions, such as the Roman Catholic Church, continue to make that error even though this epistle explains the error of that doctrine.
• Romans 10:6-7 says: But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise, Say not in thine heart, Who shall ascend into heaven? (that is, to bring Christ down from above:) Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)  Notice that the subject of our sentence (the righteousness which is of faith)  speaks about spiritual things which cannot be done in the flesh.  True Biblical faith  is spiritual in nature and not fleshly like the religious traditions which Paul tells us that they fight against true Biblical faith.
• Romans 10:8-9 says: But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.  Our sentence starts with the word But,  which connects it to the prior sentences (see the note above) and continues the same subject of true Biblical faith.  In this sentence, we see that true Biblical faith  is defined.  It requires the action of thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus  based upon believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead.  We have an action which is based upon what God wrote in His word.
• Romans 10:17 says: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.  This sentence provides a conclusion (So then,)  that true Biblical faith  is based upon the word of God.  This sentence is often preached that some man has to tell you how to get saved.  However, I heard God's Holy Ghost  speaking to me from the word of God.  And, I have met others who also were saved the same way.  As we have seen throughout this Study, religion emphasizes the physical and men when God's word is actually speaking about spiritual matters.  Two different people can hear the same message and one get saved while the other does not.  It does not matter that the man spoke.  What truly matters is if God's Holy Ghost  speaks to the person's heart and if they are willing to listen to Him.
• Romans 11:20-21 says: Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.  This is part of a Biblical example where Paul is writing about grafting being done by a farmer and using it to illustrate out being grafted into Christ.  In his illustration, Pau writes that because of unbelief they were broken off.  True Biblical faith,  and salvation or sanctification, require true Biblical belief  in what God wrote in His word and the basis of the faith.
• Romans 12:3 says: For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.  Our sentence tells us that the true spiritual measure,  of value which we have to God is the measure of faith  which God hath dealt to every man.  In any organization, the more valuable the person is, the more they are rewarded.  Therefore, the word of God encourages us to increase the measure of faith  which God gives to us.  We are to do this in order to increase our value to God and increase our everlasting rewards when we get to Heaven.
• Romans 12:6-8 says: Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching; Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with heedfulness.  This sentence is often preached with emphasis on how different spiritual gifts are to be used.  And that's fine.  But, for our Study, we need to realize that God gives different people different spiritual gifts for His own reason.  We need to use the spiritual gift, which God gave to us, in order to produce the greatest profit for God.  We are to avoid being jealous of the gift given to another because God has a plan for our own life which requires the gift given to us.  If we are busy being jealous of someone else's gift, we will not be developing our own gift fully.  That written, our sentence says: whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith.  Many preachers claim that they have the spiritual gift of prophecy  when their actual gift is ministry.  The gift of ministry  shows people how to apply truths from the word of God in their life when they have problems with the circumstances of life.  The world tells us a wrong definition of prophecy.  They claim that it is all about 'identifying future events'.  And, before the word of God was complete, God gave that gift to His prophets so that people could properly identify them.  However, their main job was to tell people thus sayeth the Lord.  They identified the things, from the Lord,  which never changed.  The priests, and preachers of today, dealt/deal with circumstances of life which vary.  They deal with the many applications instead of the single definition.  For example, they get a so-called definition, which is usually an application, from a dictionary.  The only way to get the true SINGLE definition, of a Bible word, is to study how it is used everywhere in the word of God, and determine what never changes.  That is what I do with the multitude of word studies found at ljc1611kjv.com.  Very few preachers do that level of study and then they get mad when their doctrine is corrected.  This happens when someone believes that they have a spiritual gift, which they don't have.  We each need to thank God for the gift which He gave to us and do all we can to develop it and not be jealous of the gift given to someone else.
• Romans 14:1 says: Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.  Our chapter continues with instructions on how to handle disputes, within the church, over matters of doctrine and faith.  The chapter needs to be read anytime that such disputes arise within the church.
• Romans 14:22-23 says: Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.  These sentences provide the conclusion of this chapter on how to deal with disputes, within the church, which arise over matters of doctrine and faith.  The main thing is the last precept written which is: whatsoever is not of faith is sin.  That makes all doctrines sin which claim that salvation and/or sanctification requires a work in order for God to save or sanctify a person.
• Romans 16:26-27 says: Romans 16:26-27 But now is made manifest, and by the scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known to all nations for the obedience of faith: To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.  This is the last sentences of Romans.  All of the doctrine of this epistle is made known to all nations for the obedience of faith.
• 1Corinthians 2:4-5 says: And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.  This sentence is added to the first verses of this chapter to tell us that we do not evaluate spiritual claims using the wisdom of this world.  There, Paul wrote: For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.  God showed His power by having His Son Jesus Christ our Lord.  crucified and then raised from the dead.  That goes against words of man's wisdom  and our true Biblical faith  is to look for a in demonstration of the Spirit and of power  in the person whom we believe when they tell us that something is said by the word of God.
• 1Corinthians 12:7 says: But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.  That sentence is followed by another sentence, in four (4) verses, which list several spiritual gifts  given by God's Holy Spirit.  And, our chapter tells us that different people are given different spiritual gifts  to profit withal  ('for the spiritual good of everyone in the church').
• 1Corinthians 13:2 says: But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.  Our chapter then uses the body as an illustration.  No part of the body is supposed to do whatever it wants and ignore the needs of the entire body.  Likewise, no saved person is supposed to take their spiritual gift  for their own profit and ignore the needs of the entire church.  Thus, our sentence is telling us that true Biblical faith  is a spiritual gift  which is given to a person for them to help the entire church.  I explain to people how supposedly 'bad things' happen in their life to increase their true Biblical faith  in God.  God deliberately causes such things to teach us that we cannot provide for ourselves, nor protect ourselves, but we must be totally dependent upon God.  I have written many times about personal experiences which are the basis of my own true Biblical faith  and of what I write here.  God expects people who have their true Biblical faith  grown by God to then turn around and help others who are struggling with God's lessons on faith.
• 1Corinthians 13:13 says: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.  This verse is often quoted with people making the doctrinal error of insisting that love  and charity  have the same Biblical meaning.  Please see the note for this sentence on ljc1611kjv.com for the explanation of the difference.  As for our sentence, this Study is on the word faith.  Our sentence is the conclusion of our chapter in which we are told that charity  is more important than faith.  QAs much as the word of God tells us about faith,  we still need God's priorities.
• 1Corinthians 15:14 says: And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.  In this chapter, Paul is writing about the Gospel.  In this sentence, Paul is writing about a popular doctrinal error of that day.  Basically, Paul was writing that people were just accepting erroneous doctrine without really thinking about the doctrine nor verifying it against the word of God.  God gave us a brain and the word of God.  God expects us to use our brain and the word of God to verify doctrine before accepting it.  Acts 17:10-11 tell us that the people of Berea were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.  It is doubtful if there is or was a more authoritave preacher than Paul since the time of Jesus Christ.  Yet he commended them for refusing to accept what he preached until they verified his preaching against the word of God.  Our sentence tells us that people who failed to do so had faith  that was vain.  Even today, there are many people, including many saved people, who have a false, vain  faith.  The only way to avoid such is to verify doctrine against what God actually wrote in His word.
• 1Corinthians 15:17 says: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.  This sentence is dealing with another false doctrine of that day.  The same logic as applied to the prior sentence also applies here.  Please see the note above.
• 1Corinthians 16:13 says: Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.  This is the start of Paul's final instructions in this letter.  Notice the four (4) things mentioned here and mentioned first in these final instructions.  They are what Paul considered to be most important.
• 2Corinthians 1:24 says: Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy: for by faith ye stand.  This is the end of the first chapter where Paul explained all of the troubles that he has been through and how his relationship with God enabled him to suffer those problems.  He also explained that they would be going through similar problems.  Next, he explained that what would carry them through the problems were the promises of God and those promises were very reliable and were available through the Son of God, Jesus Christ.  Thus, Paul was writing that the preacher does not have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy.  We are to stand  on faith  in the promises from God which come through the Son of God, Jesus Christ  and are delivered by God's Holy Spirit.
• 2Corinthians 4:13-14 says: We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak; Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.  Here Paul writes that all true believers have the same spirit of faith  since true Biblical faith  comes from God and God does not change (Malachi 3:6; Hebrews 13:8).  We are commanded to speak what we believe,  which is based upon what God's Holy Spirit  shows us in the word of God.
• 2Corinthians 5:6-8 says: 2 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.  A true walk by faith, not by sight  has no fear of death because the truly saved person is to be confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
• 2Corinthians 8:17 says: Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.  This is a command to abound  in giving  because it is proof of true Biblical faith.
• 2Corinthians 10:15-16 says: 2 Corinthians 10:15-16 Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly, To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand.  Paul wrote and reminded them that he was used by God to start their church and that when your faith is increased,  he hoped that they would support his missionary efforts.
• 2Corinthians 13:5 says: Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?  We are commanded to: Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith.  Saved people can be NOT on the faith  if they are not living / walking by faith  (Romans C9S28).  Saved people who do not live / walk by faith  do not have Jesus Christ is in  them because they are not fulfilling their personal responsibilities in the relationship.  We are to prove your own selves  that we are in the faith  by how we live / walk by faith.
• Galatians 1:23 says: But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.  Our verse is part of a sentence which started two (2) verses prior.  Our verse is presenting a contrast with those prior verses by starting with the word but.  In the prior verses, Paul writes that he was unknown by face unto the churches of Judaea which were in Christ.  this is contrasted with his reputation within those same churches.  True Biblical faith  causes a change in our attitudes and actions, which we see happened with Paul in this sentence.
• Galatians 2:16 says: Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.  This sentence contrasts true Biblical faith  with following religious rules (the works of the law)  for salvation and sanctification.  Our sentence deals with, technically, three types of faith:  (the faith of Jesus Christ,  the faith of Christ  and our faith [we have believed in Jesus Christ]).  Please see the note for this sentence, on ljc1611kjv.com, for an explanation of those differences.  It is not enough for us to have the faith of Jesus Christ  or the faith of Christ.  We must act upon what we believe  which is based upon what the word of God tells us about His faith.
• Galatians 2:20 says: I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.  This verse is another popular one that is preached and rarely has the truth preached about it.  Look at ljc1611kjv.com where every reference to the major roles of the Son of God  has been studied and published for the single definition, of each role, and the multiple applications of each role.  (See Lord Jesus Christ on the main menu.)  Each role has a unique doctrine associated with it.  I have yet to hear this verse preached and the person give the true Biblical definition of Christ.  That is the role which the Son of God  uses to bring spiritual maturity to saved people.  Christ  never deals with the lost nor the carnal.  (Please see the note for this sentence on ljc1611kjv.com for those details.)  In addition, our sentence says that this faith  belongs to the Son of God.  He died believing that He could change the lives of the truly saved.  Therefore, this sentence does NOT apply to a truly saved person who refuses to let Christ  spiritually mature them after they get saved.  I have yet to hear that truth preached by anyone but me and Bible School students have been upset with me teaching this truth because it goes against what their pastor preached.
• Galatians 3:1 says: O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?  This sentence introduces a chapter which presents the doctrine of true Biblical faith,  even though that word is not used in this sentence.  Please read the entire chapter and realize what Paul is really writing about this word.
  Notice that our sentence says that they were bewitched  and that is because that believed lies from devils after Paul, personally, taught them Biblical truth.  Paul writes that they personally (ye)  should not obey the truth.  He continues in this chapter and explains that he wrote that phrase because they chose to rely upon religious traditions instead of true Biblical faith.  Notice that our sentence continues with: before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you.  Jesus Christ  was crucified  to pay for our sins where the devil motivated religious liars paid nothing for their personal salvation and sanctification.  In addition, Paul writes: hath been evidently set forth  because Paul personally taught this truth and provided the evidence for it.  Therefore, they had no excuse for turning from the truth to doctrinal error taught by devil motivated religious liars.
• Galatians 3:2 says: This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?  Notice that Spirit  is capitalized, which means that it is 'God's Holy Spirit'.  We receive Him at true salvation.  So, Paul's question could be reworded as: 'Did you get saved by following rules from religious traditions or by acting in true Biblical faith?'.  The answer should be obvious to all who are truly saved.
• Galatians 3:5 says: He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?.  This question should be clearly understood to tell us that true Biblical salvation and sanctification (ministereth to you the Spirit)  comes only by one of these two ways and that each person needs to decide for themselves what is the true source.  Now, there are religious liars who claim to worketh miracles,  but, based upon personal experience, I can write that they don't really do so.  (That is a separate subject.)  In addition, many claim to ministereth to you the Spirit,  but their spirit  is a devil and not God.  They allow people to continue a life of sin instead of telling them that they are agreeing to let God change their life to be like God (holy and righteous).
• Galatians 3:6-7 says: Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham.  In John 8, The Jews insisted that they were the children of Abraham  because they were the physical descendants.  Jesus  claimed otherwise because they did not have the same relationship with God as Abraham had.  Please see the note for this sentence, on ljc1611kjv.com, for the Biblical doctrine of the children of Abraham.  We are told about the faith  of Abraham, in the word of God, so that we will follow his example.
• Galatians 3:8 says: And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.  This sentence is often preached as truth because Jesus Christ  was his descendent.  However, the contextual truth is that all nations  are blessed  if they follow Abraham's example of true Biblical faith.
• Galatians 3:9 says: So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.  This sentence provides the conclusion (So then)  of the prior sentence.  Thus, we are literally told that people are blessed  if they be of faith.  This is NOT because Jesus Christ  was his descendent.
• Galatians 3:11 says: But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.  This is another sentence which quotes Habakkuk 2:4.  Our sentence uses that reference as the basis for saying that no man is justified  ('Made legally just as if they never sinned.  Are saved and/or sanctified') by the law in the sight of God.  This is one of several places where the word of God rejects keeping religious traditions for being saved and/or sanctified and tells us that true Biblical faith  is required.
• Galatians 3:12 says: And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth them shall live in them.  Our sentence clearly says the law is not of faith  which means that keeping religious traditions does not produce the results of faith.  The second part of our sentence says: The man that doeth them shall live in them.  This means that the man who relies on his own religious works for salvation and/or sanctification needs to keep all parts of the Law always.  However, Romans 3:23 and Romans 5:12 tell us that no man has ever kept all parts of the Law always.  Therefore, as the word of God tells us, the Law only condemns and does not provide salvation nor sanctification.
• Galatians 3:14 says: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.  Our sentence tells us that true Biblical salvation and/or sanctification comes through faith.  True Biblical salvation and/or sanctification is the results of the promise of the Spirit.
• Galatians 3:22 says: But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.  Please see the note for this sentence, on ljc1611kjv.com, for the Bible references of Paul.  Notice that our sentence says that this faith  belongs to Jesus Christ.  As explained more than once in this Study, we mist have faith  in Him, and His promises, in order to receive the blessings which come from the faith of Jesus Christ.  It is His faith  which gives us salvation and sanctification.
• Galatians 3:23-24 says: But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.  The phrase shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed  Means that the Old Testament did not clearly teach about true Biblical faith.  The word faith  only occurs twice in the Old Testament.  However, Hebrews 11 makes it clear that God's Holy Spirit  taught certain Old Testament people about true Biblical faith  if they were willing to listen to Him.  Likewise, today, people need to listen to God's Holy Spirit  if they want to know the truth about true Biblical faith.
• Galatians 3:25 says: But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.  By starting with the word but,  our sentence is providing a contrast to the message of the prior sentences.  Where true Biblical faith  was hid in the Old Testament, it is abundantly revealed in the New Testament.  Just count the number of places where the word faith  is used in each Testament.
• Galatians 3:26 says: For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.  This sentence literally says that we are saved and sanctified (become the children of God)  by faith in Christ Jesus.  The use of the title Christ Jesus  speaks of His spiritual maturing.  People who are saved, but refuse the spiritual maturing of Christ Jesus,  are saved but not sanctified and miss out on many more blessings which only come after we receive certain spiritual maturing.
• Galatians 5:5-6 says: For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.  In our second sentence we read: circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision,  which means: 'Doing religious works or not doing them means nothing in Jesus Christ'.  Now, be careful because there is doctrinal error taught about the phrase in Jesus Christ.  (Please look at In Christ Jesus for every phrase which uses this phrase.)  We have our salvation and sanctification in Jesus Christ,  but our religious works  provide our everlasting rewards or punishments.  Devils deliberately use men to confuse the sources of these two different types of results.  Now, looking at our first sentence, we read: we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.  God's Holy Spirit  tells us that we can have the righteousness  of Jesus Christ  through hope  ('Our action based upon what He desires instead of based upon a written promise in the Word of God').  The righteousness,  which we receive is part of salvation and/or sanctification which only comes from Jesus Christ  and is not based upon our works.  Our works  are the result, not cause, of true salvation and/or sanctification.  And, as our sentences tell us, we wait  because He decides when He gives these things to us.
• Galatians 5:21-52 says: Galatians 5:20-25 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.  This quote tells us the difference in evidence (fruit)  that someone does truly live in the Spirit  and walk in the Spirit.  A person can be saved and not live in the Spirit  nor walk in the Spirit,  but they lose out on blessings here and in Heaven.  And, one of the evidences that someone does truly live in the Spirit  and walk in the Spirit  is if they have true Biblical faith  as described in this Study.
• Galatians 6:10 says: As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.  We are commanded to put people who are not only saved but who also truly live in the Spirit  and walk in the Spirit  at a higher priority in our life than anyone else.  Please read Matthew 12:48 and Mark 3:33.
• Ephesians 1:15 says: Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,.  This verse is the first of several in this sentence.  (Please see the note for this sentence, on ljc1611kjv.com, for the full doctrinal context of this sentence.)  In this verse, we read faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints.  Their faith  resulted in two significant actions.  First, they obeyed all of the laws, of the Lord Jesus,  for how to act in this world.  Secondly, they excelled in His commandment to love all the saints.  The fact is that some people are difficult to love  in our flesh but we are commanded to do so using the power of our Lord Jesus Christ.  The rest of this sentence tells us the reaction of Paul and the promises of our Lord Jesus Christ  if we truly obey this verse.
• Ephesians 2:8-9 says: For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.  This verse is preached often but pretty much everyone ignores the fact that it starts with the word for.  That means that: 'It is telling us why the prior sentences, in the chapter, are true'.  God saved us to be a witness of His love and His character.  God wants to use us that way here in the physical reality and forever in Heaven.  That is what the prior sentences tell us.  However, we also need to be aware of the perversions of this sentence which are taught.  People claim that our actions of faith  save us but the word of God says that we are only saved BY grace  of hope.  That is: BY 'the gift of God' or 'the person of God'.  We are saved THROUGH faith.  When we go through a mountain, we enter the passage on one side and stay in the mountain until we come out on the other side.  Likewise, we enter the actions of true faith  and continue doing those actions until we receive the person of God or His gift.
• Ephesians 3:11-12 says: According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.  Our sentence starts with the word according,  which means that it is telling us how God accomplished what was written in the prior sentences.  But that is a separate subject from what our sentence tells us about the Biblical faith.  Our sentence tells us that we have boldness and access with confidence  by the faith  that belongs to Christ Jesus our Lord.  If we are not doing our part to maintain this relationship, then we lose all boldness and access with confidence.  We must continue to obey Him as our personal Lord.  We must also allow Him to cause us to mature spiritually, which is how He uses His role as Christ Jesus.  God set up this relationship to show unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places  His character and His power.  That means that He does it all.  Otherwise, someone would claim that things were done by the person.  But, God gives us a free will which He will not take away.  Therefore, we must willingly maintain our relationship in order to receive what God wants to give us.  All is possible because of the faith of him  (not us) but we must maintain our relationship with Christ Jesus our Lord  in order to receive the blessings which only come through that personal relationship.
• Ephesians 3:17 says: That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,.  This verse is in the middle of several verses within this sentence.  (Please see the note for this sentence, on ljc1611kjv.com, for the full doctrinal context of this sentence.)  In this verse, we read That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.  The only way the Christ dwells in  us is by faith.  (Please look at Christ In for every phrase which uses the phrase of Christ in.)  What is proven there is that there are saved people who do nor have Christ in  them because they are not doing their part to maintain their personal relationship with Christ  and they are refusing that ministry by the Son of God  which causes spiritual maturing.  They are saved, but refusing to do the actions required by true Biblical faith  which would allow Christ in  their life.  An example is a saved person crying 'God! Why are you letting these terrible things happen to me' instead of praying 'God, thank you for the experiences which increase my faith in you'.
• Ephesians 4:4-6 says: There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.  This sentence tells us several attributes of the Trinity and tells us that they are all united in one.  A book has three dimensions (height, width and depth), yet it is still one book.  People who have trouble with the concept of the Trinity.  All of these attributes are spiritual in nature.  Likewise, faith  is a physical action motivated by a spiritual truth.
• Ephesians 4:13 says: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:.  This verse is in the middle of several verses within this sentence.  (Please see the note for this sentence, on ljc1611kjv.com, for the full doctrinal context of this sentence.)  In this verse, we read Till we all come in the unity of the faith.  There is only one faith  and it is united  because it comes from God, Who is one.  This was explained in the prior note.
• Ephesians 6:16 says: Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.  This is the last verse, of several, which form a single sentence which tells us about the whole armour of God.  Our sentence tells us that true Biblical faith  is only one part of the whole armour of God.  Therefore, it works best when combined with the rest of the whole armour of God.  However, since it is the shield,  it can work by itself.  And, like a shield,  it is primarily a defensive weapon but it can be used aggressively against devils.
• Philemon 1:5-6 says: Philemon 1:5-6 Hearing of thy love and faith, which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus, and toward all saints; That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.  This is the last two verses, of six (6), which form a single sentence and open this epistle.  Please see the note for this sentence, at ljc1611kjv.com, for the consideration of the full sentence and this note will only consider the use of the word faith  in this verse.  Paul is sending a run-away slave, and a thief, back to his master fully realizing that the master has every legal right to kill that slave.  And, Paul knows that the master is probably really upset with this particular slave.  So Paul emphasizes his relationship with and all that he has because of that relationship, and the responsibilities that he has because of that relationship with Christ Jesus.  The master ends up sending out the slave as a missionary preacher, after freeing him from slavery.  That is what Paul, and our lord  desired.  This is our example of how to turn the heart of a saved person from the physical perspective to the spiritual perspective.
• Hebrews 4:1-2 says: Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.  This clearly says that God's people missed out on the promises of God because their response to the promises of God were not being mixed with faith.  every promise made during 'the Church Age' comes with requirements which we must fulfill in order to receive the promises.  (Please see all of the promises, in the New Testament, and their attached requirements, in Promises in the Gospels and Promises in the rest of the New Testament.)  Even today, people believe devil-motivated liars who say that we can 'claim' promises of God without fulfilling God's requirements in order to receive those promises.  Others accept non-specific beliefs without having a Biblical basis for their belief.  True Biblical faith  requires us to actually know what God wrote in His word, and know what He requires us to do in order to receive the promise, and for us to actually do what God requires.
• Hebrews 6:1-2 says: Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.  Here we see that the doctrine of faith toward God  is considered to be foundational.  However, faith toward  our Lord Jesus Christ  requires spiritual maturing.  The author is moving past foundational items to items which require more spiritual maturity to understand.
• Hebrews 6:11-12 says: And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.  Our sentence tells us that it requires going through faith and patience (in order to) inherit the promises.  Saved people must do what God requires, with the faith  that God will keep His promises.  They also must have patience  to wait for God to fulfill the promise in His time.
• Hebrews 10:22 says: Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.  This is the last verse, of several, which form a single sentence which tells us about God's New Testament.  The phrases: having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience  and our bodies washed with pure water  are symbolic and speak of a changed life which true Biblical faith  requires us to have.
• Hebrews 10:23 says: Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;).  This is part of the same sentence as the prior verse.  Not only are we to have the symbolic evidences of true Biblical faith,  but we are to live a changed life (hold fast the profession of our faith)  in a faithful (without wavering).  And, we are to do so, not in a prideful manner boasting about our religious activities and attitudes.  But as a testimony of our depending on our Lord Jesus Christ  (for he is faithful that promised).  Our profession  is to show His being faithful  in keeping the promises which we depend upon.
• Hebrews 10:38-39 says: Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.  This is one of the three New Testament verses which quote Habakkuk 2:4.  Remember that this epistle was actually written to Jews who considered themselves to be children of Abraham  (the Hebrew  Genesis 14:13).  These verses end this chapter and are the set up for Hebrews 11 which tells those Jews that their ancestors believed in true Biblical faith  and went beyond keeping religious traditions.
• Hebrews 11:1 says: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  This verse is often quoted in preaching but it is not always preached truthfully.  Our sentence starts with the word Now,  which means it is based upon what came prior.  But very few preachers mention what came before.  Next, our sentence tells us faith is the substance.  That means that true Biblical faith  MUST have things which can be sensed by our physical senses in this physical reality.  People who claim otherwise are religious liars, and servants of Satan, even if they are only claiming to be a religious expert while repeating a lie from someone else that they failed to verify with the word of God.  Next, our sentence says: of things hoped for.  The word of God uses hope  for: 'an action which is based upon the character of our Lord Jesus Christ'.  Most people think that the definition of this word is: 'anything desired including sin'.  But the true definition means only what comes from our Lord Jesus Christ.  That leaved our last phrase of the evidence of things not seen.  What is truly spiritual, is not seen.  When it is not seen  and it comes from our Lord Jesus Christ,  it often is a miracle.  And, true miracles are the result of true Biblical faith  and they bring glory to God.  As much of what our chapter tells us, some of the people reported on truly received miracles from God.
• Hebrews 11:3 says: Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.  The Genesis account of creation is fought by devil-motivated men and they are very consistent in insisting that their chosen lies are true.  This is because it, obviously, required much more power than men can provide.  It is the ultimate evidence of a miracle.  That is why it takes true Biblical faith  to accept the Genesis account of creation.  It does not matter how much you prove that the claims of Evolution are impossible lies of a lying religion.  People reject the Genesis account of creation until they accept it by true Biblical faith.
• Hebrews 11:4 says: By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.  This is the first example of ancestors given by the author to prove that true Biblical faith  is not something new with the New Testament.  And, as already written, this chapter is mainly telling us how ancestors acted in true Biblical faith.  Yes, it can be used to teach about true Biblical faith,  but it is also, sometimes, used to teach doctrinal error.  As written, Romans 3 and Galatians 3 actually teach us what the word of God says that true Biblical faith consists of.
• Hebrews 11:5 says: By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.  This is our second example given by the author.  The first example was Able doing exactly what God commanded regardless of possible consequences.  True Biblical faith  requires us to do that.  In this example, we see God take His friend home.  And, there is reason to believe that God will send him back to work during the 'Great Tribulation' so that he can have more everlasting rewards.  That cannot be proven and regardless of that belief, what our sentence tells us is that we can rely on God to take us to Heaven if we truly serve Him with true Biblical faith.
• Hebrews 11:6 says: But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.  In this sentence, the author tells us How true Biblical faith  works before continuing with more examples of ancestors who did works of true Biblical faith.  (Please see the note for this sentence on ljc1611kjv.com for more explanation of the doctrine in this sentence.)
• Hebrews 11:7 says: By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.  Noah worked and preached for one hundred and twenty years while he was ridiculed by everyone except his family.  He told people that God told him that God would do something that had never been done before and that people believed was impossible.  But, true Biblical faith  believes that nothing is too hard for the Lord  (Genesis 18:14; Jeremiah 32:27).  Noah believed and acted on this truth before it was written in the word of God.
• Hebrews 11:8 says: By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.  Like Abraham, true Biblical faith  obeys God even when the commandment of God makes no sense to our flesh and even when our flesh says that God's commandment is impossible.  Consider the truth of the note for the prior reference.
• Hebrews 11:9-10 says: Hebrews 11:9-10 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.  True Biblical faith  ignores the limits of the physical reality and concentrates on spiritual truth from God.
• Hebrews 11:11 says: Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.  The important phrase, of this sentence, is; because she judged him faithful who had promised.  True Biblical faith  verifies that the promise actually comes from God before believing.  But, once assured of that truth, nothing in this physical reality can shake true Biblical faith.  It did not matter to Sarah that she could no longer get pregnant.  Like the prior two examples show us, nothing is too hard for the Lord.
• Hebrews 11:13 says: These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.  True Biblical faith  understands that God will keep His promises but that he will do so in His time and His way.  All of the people already mentioned, in our chapter, will return with Christ  and receive any unfulfilled promises at that time.
• Hebrews 11:17 says: By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,.  This is the first of several verses which form this sentence.  (Please see the note for this sentence on ljc1611kjv.com for more explanation of the doctrine in this sentence.)  Abraham was old, only had one son accepted by God, and God required Abraham to kill that son.  Sometimes God requires us to do something that our religion and culture says is wrong.  True Biblical faith  understands that God is never wrong and that God will explain after we obey.  However, we need to know the true character of God so that we are not deceived by a devil claiming to be God.
• Hebrews 11:20 says: By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.  Isaac was determined to pass on things the way that he wanted.  God had to overcome him.  True Biblical faith  requires us to always seek God's will and accept what He wants even when it goes against our own will.
• Hebrews 11:21 says: By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff.  There are important prophecies in the blessings that Jacob gave.  Among other things, he foretold where the Jewish cities of refuge  would be.  If we are willing to live / walk by faith  (Romans C9S28) then God will truly work through our life.
• Hebrews 11:23 says: By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.  Joseph devoted his life to the service of God.  God reveal certain truths to people who truly serve Him by faith.  I have personally experienced this and have met others who have also personally experienced this.
• Hebrews 11:24-26 says: By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.  These three verses are one sentence.  There are times when God tests us before He rewards our passing the test.  Moses could have been the most powerful person in this physical reality at that time.  He understood spiritual truths and chose those over physical rewards.  Then he had to spend forty (40) years on the backside of a mountain, attending sheep and, I believe, wondering at the physical things which he gave up with no apparent reward.  true.  True Biblical faith  requires us to always do God's will regardless of the consequences in this physical reality and regardless of how long God allows us to continue to suffer.
• Hebrews 11:27 says: By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.  The example shows us that true Biblical faith  puts spiritual truth above physical things and, if their is a conflict, that the spiritual is preferred over the physical.
• Hebrews 11:28 says: Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.  God warned that He would kill the firstborn in every house which did not have blood on the door posts.  They were told to eat the passover,  in addition to putting blood on the door posts.  True Biblical faith  does exactly as God commands.  Fools and liars believe they can change God's commands and that God has to accept their changes.
• Hebrews 11:29 says: By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.  Here we see God making a distinction between people who have true Biblical faith  and those who do not.  The Egyptians were sure that they could cross just like the Jews did and ended up dead.  Lost people claim that God will treat them the same as people who have true Biblical faith,  but eternity will show that God gives them the second death.
• Hebrews 11:30 says: By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.  Here we see God fighting for His people who obeyed God in true Biblical faith.  If saved people want God to protect and provide for them, they need to obey in the exact way that God commands.
• Hebrews 11:31 says: By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.  She is our example that true Biblical faith  requires us to do what is right even when it goes against all commanded by our government and culture.
• Hebrews 11:32-34 says: And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.  This sentence makes it clear that there are more examples of true Biblical faith  than the author can write about.  It does not matter how many people have already server god faithfully, God wants us to live in true Biblical faith.
• Hebrews 11:39-40 says: And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.  Here we see that God delayed their reward for our sake.  Living in true Biblical faith  requires us to accept that God may delay our own reward for the good of someone else.
• Hebrews 12:1-2 says: Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.  There is a lot of doctrine in this sentence.  (Please see the note for this sentence on ljc1611kjv.com for more explanation of the doctrine in this sentence.)  The main thing, for this Study, which our sentence tells us is: Jesus (is) the author and finisher of our faith.  We are to keep looking unto Jesus  for our example of how to live / walk by faith  and please God so that we receive rewards in this life and in eternity.  Many people believe, and preach or teach, a half-truth, which pleases devils.  They preach and teach that 'Jesus came to die and pay for our sins'.  That is true, but only half of the truth.  He also, as reported in the Gospels, spent three and a half years of living and example of how to please God while in our flesh.  If it was not important for us to know these things, He would just have paid for our sins and God would not have had the Gospels written.  Please see the Study called What Did Jesus Do? for different circumstances which Jesus  dealt with as an example for us to follow.
• Hebrews 13:7 says: Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.  God gave each of us godly examples to follow.  The first thing which we are told to do is to keep on considering the end of their conversation.  Truly godly leaders will wait to receive their rewards from God in Heaven.  Ungodly leaders will demand their rewards in this life.
• James 1:2-3 says: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.  God gives us tests to our faith  to let us know how much it has increased within us.  In the process, as our sentence says, it worketh patience,  which means we have an ongoing work of our patience.  This is designed to increase our patience  and our faith.
• James 1:6 says: But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.  Our sentence starts with the word But,  which provides a contrast with the prior sentence.  The prior sentence told us that God will give wisdom  to the man who asks while this sentence explains why God will not answer such a question.  And, while James writes this about wisdom,  the fact is that it applies to anything asked of God in faith.  We have seen this fact said indirectly in prior quotes.
• James 2:1 says: My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.  This sentence introduces the subject of this entire chapter.  Notice that this sentence says that it is speaking about the faith of  ('the faith belonging to') our Lord Jesus Christ.  His faith  is that He can change people and He deals with the heart, and spiritual things, not with physical things.  It is His faith  that the church is to be a witness to.  Following this sentence, James gives an example of how some church members are more concerned with their sinful pride than they are of being a true witness of the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• James 2:5 says: Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?  I have lived in America and in a third-world country.  And, based upon those experiences, I can definitely say that the poor of this world fond it easier to express true Biblical faith  than the rich find it easy to express.
• James 2:14 says: What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?  Many people preach the doctrinal error from devils that claims: 'we are saved by faith'.  NO, we are saved THROUGH faith  and by grace  or hope.  Both of those are from our Lord Jesus Christ  where our faith  produces our works.
• James 2:17 says: Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.  In this sentence, James is dealing with doctrinal error from devils that claims: 'belief is faith'.  Until we act, we only have belief  and no two Bible words have the same meaning.  But, many people make the mistake of applying the meaning of one word to another word.
• James 2:18 says: Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.  Remember that Hebrews 12:1-2 told us that faith  has substance.  Belief  has no substance.  This sentence is providing further support (Yea)  to the prior sentence.  Therefore, please also consider the prior note.
• James 2:20 says: But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?  A vain  person is full of pride.  James adds the next sentence to tell us how Abraham our father justified by works  when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar  full of true Biblical faith  that God would make things right.  Abraham required works  to prove his faith.  In our sentence, James says that we are full of pride (vain)  if we think that our faith  is better than Abraham's because our so-called faith  needs no works.  Without works,  we only have a belief  and not true Biblical faith.
• James 2:22 says: Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?  Matthew 5:48 says: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.  Thus, we see that we are commanded to have works  as part of our faith.
• James 2:24 says: Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.  Justified  is: 'made legally, in Heaven, just as if we never sinned'.  Without the requirement of this sentence, saved people will meet those sins at the judgment seat of Christ.  Lying ministers of Satan deny this truth.
• James 2:26 says: For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.  Jesus Christ  came to give us life.  Therefore, following the commandments of our Lord Jesus Christ  requires us to have faith  which is proven by works.
• James 5:15 says: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.  This sentence assumes that the elders  have true Biblical faith  and that the sick person quits their sin.
• 1Peter 1:3-5 says: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.  This is a long and complex sentence which is explained in the note for this sentence on ljc1611kjv.com.  The main thing, for this Study, which our sentence tells us is that we are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.  It is the power of God  which keeps us saved and we cannot lose our salvation because nothing is stronger than the power of God.  However, Peter writes through faith  because it is our faith  that maintains our relationship with God and our assurance of salvation.  We cannot lose true salvation but we can lose our assurance of it if we do not maintains our relationship through faith.  In addition, our sentence tells us that our salvation is ready to be revealed in the last time.  Our last time  is after we get to Heaven.  Different people will receive different spiritual gifts through their salvation, based upon their personal faith  and how well they maintained their relationship with God.  God wants to be able to brag about how He saved each of us and how we let Him use our life and about the spiritual things which He was able to give us because of our faith.  Our entire life is about our giving God glory.
• 1Peter 1:7-9 says: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.  Our sentence uses the word faith  twice and tells us two different things about our faith.  The second instance tells us about the end of our faith,  which is when we get to Heaven.  That is when we will fully receive the salvation of our soul.  That is when we receive all of our spiritual rewards.  And, while that is good, we still have to consider the first usage of the word faith.  There, we are told that the trial of our faith  is more precious than of gold that perisheth.  We will leave everything physical behind when we go to Heaven.  But, we will take spiritual gifts with us and they are given by God to people who pass His trial of faith.  Since we cannot lose those spiritual gifts, they are more precious  than anything which we have in this world.
• 1Peter 1:21 says: Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.  This verse is the last verse, of several, which make up a sentence.  (Please see the note for this sentence on ljc1611kjv.com for more explanation of the doctrine in this sentence.)  The main thing, for this Study, which our verse tells us is that God raised him (Jesus) up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.  Our faith and hope  is to be in God and not in the religious claims of men.  The only way to assure this is to verify everything which we are told comes from the word of God.  Without personally verifying what we believe, we can be deceived.
• 1Peter 5:8-9 says: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.  Pater warns us that the devil  is our adversary  and he is seeking whom he may devour.  Peter also writes that our faith  is how we resist  Him.  However, as Peter wrote in this epistle, we need to verify that our faith  is in what God truly wrote in His word and not in what some religious person told us.
• 2Peter 1:1 says: Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:.  This verse is part of Peter's opening of this epistle.  It is one of the four verses in his first sentence.  (Please see the note for this sentence on ljc1611kjv.com for more explanation of the doctrine in this sentence.)  The main thing, for this Study, which our verse tells us is that Peter wrote to them that have obtained like precious faith with us.  There are saved people who have not obtained like precious faith  because they do not what is required to obtain  it.  Peter also writes that we obtain  it through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.  However, we must maintain our personal relationship with God and our Saviour Jesus Christ  in order to receive the growth of our faith.  Peter continues in his opening sentence with: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  Again, there is much doctrine in this verse.  But, the important thing for us to pat attention to is that God wants to give the saved the divine nature.  We are born with a sin nature and God does not want that in His personal home.  That is why He wants to give the saved the divine nature.  However, our sentence also tells us that, first, we must escape the corruption that is in the world through lust.  True Biblical faith  allows God to change the person.
• 2Peter 1:5 says: And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;.  This is the start of Peter's second sentence which is broken into three (3) verses and tells us character traits to add to our faith.  Peter writes that in order to do this, we must have diligence.  True Biblical faith  requires diligence.
• 1John 5:4 says: For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.  The world  is all of the influence of things in this physical reality which encourage us to sin and to value physical things above true spiritual things.  Our sentence tells us that our faith  is what overcometh the world  ('gives us an ongoing overcoming of the influences of this world to sin').  This is only possible with the power of God.  And, as we have seen repeatedly in this Study, that requires our maintaining our personal relationship with God and our Saviour Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:3 says: Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.  Here, Jude warns us that devils try to corrupt the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.    That is why Luke 18:8 tells us that Jesus  said; Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?  The corruption  of the faith which was once delivered unto the saints  is so commonly believed that Jesus  wondered if there would be any true Biblical faith  left on Earth when He returns.  This is why Jude had to change what he wrote about and why, as we have seen repeatedly in this Study, we need to verify, against the true word of God, what people tell us is in it.  The world is full of liars and the religious liars have help from devils in their corruption of truth.
• Jude 1:20-21 says: But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.  We are saved (given eternal life)  by the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We are commanded to build up ourselves on our most holy faith  by keeping ourselves in the love of God  by doing the rest of this sentence.  Notice that our building  is on our most holy faith.  If our faith  does not make us holy,  then it is not the faith which was once delivered unto the saints,  which Jude started this epistle telling us that such was the main subject of this epistle.  How we tell if our faith  is a true Biblical faith  or not is by how well it makes us holy.
• Revelation 2:13 says: I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.  This is part of what our Lord Jesus Christ  writes to the church in Pergamos.  He writes that they personally holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith  even when they had to deal with Satan's seat  being close by and a member of their church was martyred.  True Biblical faith  stays consistent even in those circumstances.
• Revelation 2:19-20 says: I know thy works, and charity, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last to be more than the first. Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.  Having all of the good things listed in our sentences does not eliminate the consequences of allowing doctrinal error into the church.
• Revelation 13:10 says: He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.  This is part of what we are told about people who follow the beast  of Revelation.  Simply put, God's 'Law of Sowing and Reaping' never fails.
• Revelation 14:12 says: Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.  This follows where we are told that the wrath of God  is brought upon everyone who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.  The people who are mentioned in our sentence had to remain true to their faith  during all that happened during the 'Great Tribulation'.  No matter what circumstances of life God allows us the experience, we are to remain true to true Biblical faith.

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Faithful

The New Testament definition, of the word faithful,  is: 'a firm in adherence to the truth and to the duties of religion or a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.  Also, full of true faith in all circumstances'.  The words faith  faithfulness  are also defined in this Study.

Easton's Bible Dictionary defines this word as: 'as a designation of Christians, means full of faith, trustful, and not simply trustworthy (Ac 10:45; 16:1; 2Co 6:15; Col 1:2; 1Ti 4:3,12; 5:16; 6:2; Tit 1:6; Eph 1:1; 1Co 4:17, etc.).  It is used also of God's word or covenant as true and to be trusted (Ps 119:86,138; Isa 25:1; 1Ti 1:15; Re 21:5; 22:6, etc.)'

Webster's 1828 defines this word as: 'a.  1. Firm in adherence to the truth and to the duties of religion.  Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. 2.  2. Firmly adhering to duty; of true fidelity; loyal; true to allegiance; as a faithful subject.  3. constant in the performance of duties or services; exact in attending to commands; as a faithful servant.  4. Observant of compact, treaties, contracts, vows or other engagements; true to one's word. A government should be faithful to its treaties; individuals, to their word.  5. True; exact; in conformity to the letter and spirit; as a faithful execution of a will.  6. True to the marriage covenant; as a faithful wife or husband.  7. Conformable to truth; as a faithful narrative or representation.  8. Constant; not fickle; as a faithful lover or friend.  9. True; worthy of belief. 2Tim. 2'.

Nave's Topical Bible provides links for the word faithful  as: 'FAITHFULNESS:  EXHORTATION TO:  Ps 12:1; 31:23; Pr 20:6; 28:20; Mt 10:22; 24:45-47; 25:14-23; Lu 12:42-44; 16:10-12; 19:12-27; 1Co 4:2; Re 2:10.  INSTANCES OF:  Abraham:  Ga 3:9.  Moses:  Heb 3:5.  David:  2Sa 22:22-25.  Elijah:  1Ki 19:10,14.  Abijah:  2Ch 13:4-20.  Jehoshaphat:  2Ch 20:1-30.  Job:  Job 1:21-22; 2:9-10'.

Thompson Chain Topics provides links for the word faithful  as: 'Sayings:  1Ti 1:15; 4:9; 2Ti 2:11; Tit 3:8.  Servants:  Ex 21:5; Ps 123:2; Pr 17:2; 25:13; 27:18; Mt 24:45'.

Many preachers, and God's people, are deceived because they failed to verify what they were taught.  Many want to believe doctrinal error because it makes their flesh feel good.  For example, Revelation 17:14 says that the only saved people who will return with Christ are: called, and chosen, and faithful.  However, saved people who fail to fulfill God's requirements will not be allowed to return with Christ  even if they want to believe that they will return to rule this world.  And, since people want to believe a lie and preachers don't want to offend church people, many claim that the lie is truth.

This applies to our current Study.  Many people preach and teach what the word of God says about 'the chapter on faith' (Hebrews 11), because that is what they have been taught.  And, it contains more references to the word faith  than any other chapter in the word of God.  However, we heed to keep in mind that that that epistle was actually written to Jews who considered themselves to be children of Abraham  (the Hebrew  Genesis 14:13) and Hebrews 11 is telling them that their ancestors believed in true Biblical faith  and went beyond keeping religious traditions.  Romans 3 and Galatians 3 actually teach us what the word of God says that true Biblical faith consists of.  Since Hebrews 11 does not explicitly teach what those other chapters teach, many people use Hebrews 11 as the basis to teach doctrinal errors.  They reference the examples and claim that the example actually did or believed something other than what was true.  Without referencing the rest of the Bible, people do not realize that they are being taught doctrinal error.

While I could go on with more warning, I believe that most people who want to believe a lie will have quit reading by now.  The only way to truly know the true SINGLE meaning of a Bible word is to look at every place where it is used, consider the context, and find what never changes for every reference.  That is what this Study provides.

I put the study, of the word faithful,  with the study of the word faith,  because no one can truly understand the true definition of one word without also truly understanding the true definition of the other word.

In addition to other errors, many people do not separate the definitions of faith,  belief,  and hope.  If there is no action by the person, then they have a belief  and not true faith.  If they do not have a promise literally written in the word of God, but are acting on the character of God, then they have hope  and not true faith.

Webster's 1828 defines this word as: 'a.  1. Firm in adherence to the truth and to the duties of religion.  Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. 2.  2. Firmly adhering to duty; of true fidelity; loyal; true to allegiance; as a faithful subject.  3. constant in the performance of duties or services; exact in attending to commands; as a faithful servant.  4. Observant of compact, treaties, contracts, vows or other engagements; true to one's word. A government should be faithful to its treaties; individuals, to their word.  5. True; exact; in conformity to the letter and spirit; as a faithful execution of a will.  6. True to the marriage covenant; as a faithful wife or husband.  7. Conformable to truth; as a faithful narrative or representation.  8. Constant; not fickle; as a faithful lover or friend.  9. True; worthy of belief. 2Tim. 2'.

Thompson Chain Topics provides links for the word faithful  as: 'Sayings:  1Ti 1:15; 4:9; 2Ti 2:11; Tit 3:8.  Servants:  Ex 21:5; Ps 123:2; Pr 17:2; 25:13; 27:18; Mt 24:45'.

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The verses which use this word are:

• Numbers 12:7:  My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.  God said that Moses was not like other prophets.  Where God would speak to other prophets in a dream, God said that: With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches.  That is why he is called 'the father of the faithful'.  Jesus Christ  is the only other man whom God spoke to mouth to mouth.
• Deuteronomy 7:9-10:  Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.  Here God makes a promise to all people throughout all ages.  He will reward the people who love him and keep his commandments  and punish all others because they hate him.
• 1Samuel 2:34-36:  And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them. And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever. And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.  Hophni and Phinehas  were sons of Aaron who perverted the sacrifice and the worship of God even as official priests.  The fulfillment of the first part of this prophecy is reported in1Samuel 4:11-17.  I believe that Jesus Christ  fulfills the second part of this prophecy, but we will not see all of it fulfilled until the 1,000 year of Christ.
• 1Samuel 22:14:  Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?  This was when Saul was trying to kill David because God had appointed him as the next king.  Ahimelech was the priest who gave David, and his men, provisions when David fled from Saul.  Saul demanded answer from Ahimelech as to why he did this and our verse is the answer from Ahimelech.  Saul didn't care how David had dealt with him.  Nor did he care that what Ahimelech did was reasonable.  Saul acted like many ungodly people ace, even today, and demanded that his unreasonable feelings be fulfilled regardless of facts of truth.
• 2Samuel 20:19:  I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?  The context is that Joab had an army and was going to destroy a city that a criminal fled to.  a woman went out to talk to Joab and said this verse.  Joab agreed to not destroy the city if they gave him the criminal.  She agreed, and did, throw down the head of the criminal.  There are 'Sanctuary Cities' today that free criminals in their cities and demand that righteous people agree with their decisions.  God promises to destroy all citied which harbor criminals.
• Nehemiah 7:2:  That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many.  Nehemiah rebuilt the wall of Jerusalem at the end of the Babylonian captivity.  His job was not to rule the people after the wall was rebuilt but he chose a faithful man, (who) feared God above many.  We need such type of men as our leaders if we want God's blessings.
• Nehemiah 9:8-10:  And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day.  Our chapter starts by telling how the Jews spent a half day confessing their sins and then listened to God's Law being read.  They then Had the God appointed religious leaders lead them in worship and acknowledging all of God's attributes.  Then they recognized their history of being blessed by God starting with Abram,  which was the name of Abraham  before God changed his name.  The remainder of the chapter also recounts God's blessings on them.  This is the model to follow when we want to return to God after a life of sin.
• Nehemiah 13:13:  And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.  This is how the Jews continued to get God's blessings after they returned to God after a life of Sin.  The chapter starts with their removing all who did not agree with proper attitudes and actions towards commandments from God.  They then cleaned up their physical buildings for worship of God and provided for the physical needs of all who served God as their livelihood.  They then had the people tithe and appointed men who were counted faithful  for the office to distribute unto their brethren.  Our chapter continues with how Nehemiah corrected people who did not obey God's Law in their everyday life.  This is an example of how a godly leader restores people to a proper relationship with God so that they will be blessed by God.
• Psalms 12:1:  Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.  This is the opening sentence of this Psalm and it gives the theme of the Psalm.  When God's people turn from God, and a leader wants to restore the people's relationship with God so that God will bless them, he must start by seeking guidance from God and recognizing the true source of the problems.
• Psalms 31:23:  O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.  This is the conclusion of a Psalm which recognizes the difference between people who serve God and people who live a life of sin.  It also recognizes the difference in what each group receives from God.  Notice the differences between how God treats the faithful  man and the proud doer.  God considers any saved person who refuses to have true faith  in God to be proud,  like Satan was condemned for being proud.
• Psalms 89:37:  It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.  The word Selah  means: 'think about it'.  Our Psalm starts with: I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations  and continues with worship and recognizing how God deals with people who have a proper relationship with Him.  The Psalm continues with how such people act in their relationship with God and the attitudes that they maintain.  It continues with the historical evidence that witnesses how God blesses such people.  After that we have prophecy about Christ, which is given only to people who have a true relationship with God.  Included in the prophecy is the promise of everlasting salvation for true Christians.  That leads to our current verse, which concludes the prophetic promises to Christ and true Christians.  We are to 'think about' all of God's prophetic promises when we face difficulties in this life.
• Psalms 101:6:  Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.  This sentence is part of a Psalm that starts with: I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.  This sentence tells us that the psalmist will live with people who are truly faithful  to God and not live with people who refuse to be faithful  to God.  This psalm says how to get blessings from God.
• Psalms 119:86:  Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.  This Psalm starts with the psalmist saying that he will, personally, be faithful in serving God.  What follows this sentence is how he will deal with He that worketh deceit.  The promise of this sentence is only to those people who fulfill all of the requirements of this Psalm.
• Psalms 119:138:  Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful.  Our Psalm starts with: Righteous art thou, O LORD, and upright are thy judgments.  It continues with how to psalmist will remain faithful in spite of problems and circumstances.  Our Psalm ends with: he righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
• Proverbs 11:13:  A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.  Obviously, in order to have a faithful spirit,  we can not gossip.
• Proverbs 13:17:  A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.  Obviously, we should not use anyone as a messenger unless they have been proven to be faithful.  This is a major requirement for anyone who wants to be a true ambassador.  This Proverb tells us that we help and encourage others when we faithfully  deliver their message no matter what circumstances we face and no matter how we feel about the message.  Proverbs 14:4 delivers a similar message said a different way.
• Proverbs 14:5:  A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies  Obviously, we should not believe anything we hear from a known liar.
• Proverbs 20:6:  A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.  Again, we are to not trust the claims of any proven liar.
• Proverbs 25:13:  As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.  This sentence should be obvious.  This is the effect that a truly faithful  person has on others, especially their boss.
• Proverbs 27:6:  Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.  If a true friend wounds  you, then they are truly trying to help you.  However, people who tell you what you want to hear, while you are being wrong, are deceiving  you and want your destruction.
• Proverbs 27:6 says: Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
• Proverbs 28:20:  A faithful man shall abound with blessings: but he that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.  This can not be clearer about worldly thinking about becoming rich in this world.  The true promise to A faithful man  is true blessings,  which are different from what the world offers.
• Isaiah 1:21:  How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.  Isaiah prophesied before the country of Israel was taken into captivity.  This sentence tells us why God brought judgment upon His people.  This sentence also tells us that God regards us to be acting like a harlot  when we stop being His faithful  servants and messengers.
• Isaiah 1:26:  And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.  This is in the same paragraph as the prior sentence.  It provides part of the promised blessings after God's people truly Biblically repent.
• Isaiah 8:2:  And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.  Isaiah had two faithful witnesses  recode the prophecy of the destruction of Assyria.  False prophets will claim that they prophesied something before it happened when they really did not.  Isaiah made sure that he had two faithful witnesses  to his prophecy and that he gave it a substantial time before the event happened.  That proved that he was a true prophet of God.
• Isaiah 49:7:  Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.  This chapter starts with haw God chose Isaiah from when he was born.  God has a purpose for every person who is created.  Our chapter also tells us how Isaiah was despised of men but he was God's servant and the things, which he suffered from men, God called a light thing.  Then we read this sentence, which says the LORD...choose thee.  The chapter continues with God's promise to bless Isaiah because he was a faithful  servant of God.  Our sentence tells us that Jesus Christ  was despised and rejected but, in the end, men shall worship Him because He was faithful.  Likewise, we may be despised by men and our message rejected but, in the end, God will make men acknowledge our being faithful.
• Jeremiah 42:5:  Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.  In this chapter, a few people remained after the judgment of God fell on His people.  They promised to accept the word from God, regardless if it was good or bad.  The chapter continues with a promise that God will bless obedience to His word and destroy people who disobey.  When we call upon God, we must be faithful  in our obedience if we truly want blessings instead of destruction from God.  Our sentence tells us that God will reveal all hidden truths at the judgment seat of Christ  because He is the faithful witness  to all disputes between His children.
• Daniel 6:4:  Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.  They had to make a law of man which said that Daniel could not worship God and that he would be thrown into the del of starving lions if he did.  Daniel was faithful  enough to God that he opened his window and let his enemies see him worshipping God.  People want miracles from God but have not the courage to openly defy devil motivated men who threaten them with death for being faithful  to God.  When liars try to find a basis for their lies against a godly man, his only salvation is being faithful  to God's commands.
• Hosea 11:12:  Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.  Hosea prophesied after the country of Israel was taken into captivity by Assyria.  This sentence explains why God brought judgment upon the country of Israel but spared Judah.  It compares the unfaithfulness  of people with the top religious credentials (represented by Ephraim)  to the being faithful  of God's people who were poorer but who ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
• Matthew 24:45:  Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?  This was spoken by Jesus  right after a promise of His return.  It promises rewards in Heaven for saved people who are also faithful and wise servants.  Following this sentence is a promise to reward the faithful and wise servant  and to punish the evil servant.  The promise is that Jesus  will come when He is not expected and will And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Matthew 25:21:  His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.  This was spoken by Jesus  about the judgment seat of Christ  for all saved people who are a faithful servant.  It is part of the 'Parable of Talents' where our Lord Jesus Christ  tells about the future judgment of faithful  saved people compared to the judgment of unfaithful  saved people.
• Matthew 25:23:  His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.  This repeats the prior sentence and gives is the assurance of this promise being a law of God.
• Luke 12:42:  And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?  This sentence provides the same message as Matthew 25:21.  Like it, this sentence is also spoken by Jesus  about the judgment seat of Christ  for all saved people who are a faithful servant.  Thus, God made sure that this message was available to all who truly read the Gospels.
• Luke 16:10-12:  He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.  This reference is three sentence which are all part of the same message.  The message is clear, the rewards given to saved people is wholly dependent upon how faithful  God judges them to be in this life.  It teaches a precept when it says: He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.  God, and us, do not need a big test to see if someone is truly faithful.  I teach people to pick up the smallest coin, from the ground, and thank God for His blessings.  People with a true 'attitude of gratitude' obey that teaching.  People who forget, or ignore, the lesson wonder why they don't see God blessing them.
• Luke 19:17:  And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.  This was also spoken by Jesus  about the judgment seat of Christ  for all saved people who are a faithful servant.  Again, God wanted people who read what is truly said in the Gospels to understand this promise which is given only if we are saved and faithful.  This sentence is part of the 'Parable of Pounds' and is parallel to the 'Parable of Talents'.  Both parables teach the same lesson.  But, people deny this truth because 'Parable of Pounds' makes it clear that seven (7) people went to Hell and the wicked (unrighteous) servant  still went to Heaven.  They want to claim that the wicked (unrighteous) servant  went to Hell because they insist that 'Parable of Talents' sent the wicked (unrighteous) servant  to Hell and that the place of outer darkness  cannot be where God places saved people, in Heaven, who lived an outer life of darkness ('lived for the lusts of the flesh, the way of the world and the doctrines of devils').  Even though God tells us to separate from such saved people in this life, and God does not wipe away all tears  until there are only saved people in Heaven to receive that action from God.  Most people believe the devil lie that all saved people will be in eternal bliss as soon as they die and that 'there are no tears in Heaven' when the Bible truth is that 'there are no tears in the SECOND Heaven'.
• Acts 16:15:  And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there.  Lydia said this to Paul after she was saved and baptized.  Our sentence tells us that faithful  saved people have a life which is a testimony to others that they truly serve God.  Anyone who claims to be faithful  to God but does not live such a testimony is deceived and a liar.  We are to make sure that the preacher, whom we listen to, is truly faithful  the God and to God's word.
• 1Corinthians 1:9:  God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.  God is faithful  because He never changes.  What He did in the past He will do today even when circumstances and devils claim otherwise.  However, our sentence also tells us: ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.  People want to claim that they are saved while they fellowship with devils and refuse to personally (ye)  fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.  Such belief is a lie from a devil.
• 1Corinthians 4:1-2:  Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.  Each saved person is called to be a ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.  Therefore, all saved are also called to be faithful.  Our sentence was already mentioned along of several verses which tell us that God is faithful.  In addition, it tells us that, as a result of this truth, ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.  Many people claim to be saved but do not have the changed life which is the true evidence that they personally (ye)  have a fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.  Such do not have the spiritual maturity brought by Christ  and are not obedient to our Lord.  Such people, who not live a testimony, are deceived and liars.  These sentences are usually preached about God's people being stewards  of God's money.  That application is fine but I have never heard it preached about what is truly written by God in these sentences.  And, we have a major problem, spread throughout America and the Western Culture, as a result.  These sentences are actually speaking about preachers being as of the ministers of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.  They have everyone looking at how people handle money instead of how preachers handle the word of God.  As a result, we have all kinds of doctrinal error and lies from devils preached and being called: 'Christian doctrine'.  While I am not complaining about the common application, devils have convinced preachers to ignore the true interpretation of these sentences with the result of lost of people going to Hell while believing that they are saved.
• 1Corinthians 4:17:  For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.  Paul had a wonderful ministry from God but he knew that he would die soon when he wrote this epistle.  He turned his ministry over to Timothy who was my beloved son  ('had the same character in the ministry as Paul') and faithful in the Lord  ('always told what the Lord said and not his own opinion').  Every person serving God should look for someone who has similar characteristics to take over their ministry when they die.  A person must be faithful in the Lord  before they are Biblically qualified to be an evangelist, pastor or a missionary..  Paul could not go to that church, personally, at that time.  So he sent Timothy knowing that Timothy would tell them what the word of God actually said.  As noted for the prior reference, devils are getting preachers to look at how people handle money and ignore what is actually written in the Word of God.  This chapter is warning about false doctrines and lies from devils being passed of as 'Christian doctrine' and these lies are accepted because of pride (Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.)  We need to remember that we will each be judged by God.  If we choose to believe doctrinal errors and lies from devils, we sill be judged by God for that.  God gave us each a brain and the truth in His word.  As said earlier in this chapter, we need to verify that the person telling is about the word of God actually demonstrates the Spirit and of power  of God.
• 1Corinthians 7:25:  Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.  Once more we see Paul give proper qualifications before he gives advice.  Many people are messed up by getting advice from an unqualified person.  Yes, we all need advice at times.  However, we need to first be sure that the person whom we seek advice from is: one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.  Someone must have evidence of obtaining mercy of the Lord  and have a testimony of being faithful to the Lord  before their opinion is listened to.  Many preachers are wrongly listened to because of their position in spite of the fact that they do not have these two requirements from God.  Here, Paul is making it clear that he does not have a commandment, from the Lord, but he has a proper basis for giving his advise.  We should all follow this example when in similar circumstances.
• 1Corinthians 10:13:  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.  I was in a hospital and had several doctors and nurses stop in and say: 'I'm not on your case but I just wanted to see someone who lived through that type of accident'.  I was praying this verse and knowing that whatever results I received, God would make me able to stand those results.  However, in order to claim this promise, a person must be saved, in right relationship with God and listening to God and willing to accept whatever His will is for the situation.  When we 'claim' a promise from God we must also be faithful  enough to be sure to give God the glory for whatever he does.  In addition, the phrase God is faithful  is also found in 1Corinthians 1:9 where we are told that we are called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Galatians 3:9:  So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.  This sentence give us the conclusion (So)  of the prior sentences.  Our sentence tells us that Abraham was faithful  and, if we want to be blessed like him, we need to follow his example in being faithful  to God, His ministry and His word.  We are blessed  because Abraham was faithful.  Others will also be blessed if we are faithful.
• Ephesians 1:1:  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.  This epistle was not just written to the saints which are at Ephesus,  but it was also written to us as the faithful in Christ Jesus.  You don't teach Calculus to first-grade students.  Likewise, Christ Jesus  does not teach doctrine to the newly saved.  Jesus Christ  uses the church to teach doctrine to the newly saved.  Christ Jesus  only teaches doctrine to saved people who have some spiritual maturity.  This epistle was written to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus  because the true doctrine of this epistle can be misunderstood by lost and carnal people.  Many people who claim to be saved do not fulfill God's requirements to have God qualify them as being one of the two groups which this epistle is written to.  Such people then wonder why God does not give them the promises of this epistle.
• Ephesians 6:21:  But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things: Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.  Not only was Tychicus a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord,  but we read here two main duties of people who want God to count them to also be a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord.
• Colossians 1:2:  Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.  This epistle was not just written to the pastors but was also written to faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse.  Too many people think that if they attend a church which has a good pastor, then they don't also have to personally serve Christ.  They believe the lie that God gives them credit for the spiritual work done by their pastor.
• Colossians 1:3-8:  We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you, Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints, For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven, whereof ye heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel; Which is come unto you, as it is in all the world; and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth: As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ; Who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.  Here, we read that these people were serving Christ  because their pastor was faithful  to God's word and because they obeyed God's word.  Our sentence tells us everlasting rewards which are promised to people who obey God's word.
• Colossians 4:7-9:  All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord: Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that he might know your estate, and comfort your hearts; With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you.  Notice that a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord  is concerned about the physical well being of church members (estate).  Our reference tells us the same message about Tychicus  and Onesimus,  as it did about Epaphras, except that Onesimus  was not a preacher at the time that this epistle was written.
• 1Thessalonians 5:23-24:  Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.  Our sentence tells us that God is faithful  and that He will perform the promise given in the prior sentence.
• 2Thessalonians 3:3:  And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.  This is a promise made to people who faithfully  serve God and it is made in spite of what unreasonable and wicked men  might do to try and stop the ministry of God.  We can rely upon the promises of God because He is faithful,  even when we are not.  In this church, they had people calling themselves prophets who were teaching doctrinal error.  We are to verify anything preached against the true word of God before accepting and believing what is preached.
• 1Timothy 1:12:  says: And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.  Here we read that God blessed Paul because he truly repented  and became faithful  in his service to God.  Look at how many things that Paul writes to Timothy and Titus, in order to encourage them to remain faithful  preachers in the ministry to God.  God changes people and rewards those who are faithful  to Him and His word.  What they were before salvation does not matter.
• 1Timothy 1:15:  This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.  Much has been preached based upon this sentence.  This saying  is faithful and worthy of all acceptation  because it comes from God and neither devils nor men have to power to prevent God from fulfilling it.  Paul thought himself as the chief sinner, not that God judged him as such.  This shows how humble he was.  We are to follow his example.
• 1Timothy 3:11:  Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.  This is part of the requirements for the wife of a pastor.
• 1Timothy 4:8-9:  For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.  As is true today, men, including religious men, are mainly concerned with physical power instead of spiritual power.  Paul is telling Timothy :'Yes, there is some benefit to getting physical power, but godliness is profitable unto all things  and provides benefits now and in eternity'.  Therefore, spending our time on godliness,  instead of on physical power, is more profitable for everyone.  This is typically applied only to bodily exercise.  However, it is a principal that applies to all of our lives.  The principal here is that physical things profiteth little  but the true profit, of our life, is measured by our own personal godliness.
• 1Timothy 6:2:  And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit.  Our sentence tells saved people how to treat believing masters (bosses).  who are beloved, partakers of the benefit.  This is another principal that applies to all saved people all times.  We are to not make our relationships to brethren based upon our feelings but on the other person's faithfulness  to God and His ministry.
• 2Timothy 2:1-2:  Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.  Our sentence is a command for the preacher to commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also  the example which Paul showed to Timothy.  Doing so requires the preacher to be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.  That is: grace  which is only given to God's servants who have spiritually matured, to some extent, and who are continuing to spiritually mature.  This is the third part of the 'Great commission'.  Therefore, it does not apply to preachers only but to all saved people.  We are to each teach the true things which we have been taught.
• 2Timothy 2:11-13:  It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.  This promise is to saved people who truly let Jesus Christ  live through their physical life.  That is the only way that the phrase he cannot deny himself  is applied to use personally.  This promise is to return with Jesus Christ  for the 1,000 year reign of Christ and reign with him.  However, our sentence also has the warning of: if we deny him, he also will deny us.  If someone is saved but refusing to be His witness in this world, then we God judges that are denying him  and such saved people will not be allowed to return with Jesus Christ  for the 1,000 year reign of Christ and reign with him.  Notice that this follows the chapter opening.  It takes some spiritual maturity to truly live an attitude that we be dead with him  based upon the promise that we shall also live with him  and the promise If we suffer, we shall also reign with him.  Notice that these promises are only made to people who fulfill the requirements.  Many saved people believe devil lies that they can 'claim' these promises without fulfilling the specified requirements.  They ignore the included warning of: if we deny him, he also will deny us.  Many people who claim to be saved deny him  by refusing to allow Him to change their life in this physical reality.  The phrase he also will deny us  is speaking about promises made to in this life.  We are warned that the unfaithful  servants of God will be denied  the promise of participating in the marriage supper of the Lamb  and will be denied  the privilege to return with Christ  to rule and reign  on this Earth.  And, notice that our quote ends with: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.  God's promises to His true servants are not dependent upon our belief.
• Titus 1:6:  For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee: If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.  Our sentence is part of the specification for someone to be appointed as an elder.  All church leaders are required to be faithful.  Here we see the Biblical requirement for an elder.  They are all of the leaders in the church, not just deacons.  Unfortunately, churches no longer ordain elders  and make it clear that they are given their position to serve God first and foremost.  Thus, many churches end up with ungodly leaders.
• Titus 1:9:  For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate; Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.  This is the requirement for someone to be a pastor, as Paul also wrote to Timothy.  Our sentence says that such a man must be Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.  Too many preachers, and other church leaders, are not Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught.  That is why so much doctrinal error is taught and too many preachers, and other church leaders, cannot by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.  That is also why Jesus  said; Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?  (Luke 18:8).  This is the sentence after the prior sentence, which means that a godly pastor is to surround himself with godly leaders to help in the ministry.  In addition, the context of the next sentence says: For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.  Basically, churches are to not look at religious credentials but look at the godly character of all church leaders.  Failure to obey these three sentences is how devils corrupt good churches and good ministries.
• Titus 3:8:  This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.  Notice that prior references also said This is a faithful saying  (1Timothy 4:8-9 and 1Timothy 1:15).  The Biblical definition of good works  is: 'works from God, which is letting God work through your physical life'.  The phrase thou affirm constantly  means: 'you personally {thou},  as a preacher, are to constantly preach this message'.  Thus, the 'health and welfare gospel' is a direct disobedience to the command in this sentence and all who preach it are preaching a doctrinal lie from a devil.  We are to maintain good works.  In order to increase our inheritance.  While our salvation and sanctification are 100% the result of the work by the Son of God,  our rewards and/or punishments, in Heaven, are 100% the result of our own works.
• Hebrews 2:17:  Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.  This tells us that one reason why Jesus Christ  became a literal physical human being was so that He could learn weakness, temptation and other things of a human experience through personal experience.  Some things are only learned through personal experience.  We only go to God the Father only through our Lord Jesus Christ  because God the Father does not have this knowledge only learned through personal experience.  Our Lord Jesus Christ  does have that personal experience and resulting knowledge.
• Hebrews 3:1-2:  Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.  This is the start of a chapter which tells us that Moses is our physical example of what Christ Jesus  is currently doing for the saved while He is in Heaven.  And, that Christ Jesus  is better for us than Moses.  The Hebrews looked to Moses as their greatest leader in spiritual matters.  In this chapter, the author is telling them, and us, that Christ Jesus  is a greater spiritual leader of all men.  Many religions tell us to have someone besides Christ Jesus  represent us to God the Father, but no being can do as good of a job as Christ Jesus  does.
• Hebrews 3:5:  And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.  This sentence follows the prior sentence and explains why the principal of the prior sentence is true.
• Hebrews 10:23:  Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.  Our sentence tells the saved how to act based upon the fact that Christ Jesus  is our high priest  and He is faithful  and gave us promises that we can rely upon.  Most people preach this sentence for the second half of the sentence.  However, I can't remember anyone preaching the first half of this sentence, which is the true Biblical basis of the second half.  In the first half, we are told that God is faithful  and that all of His promises  are based upon that truth.  And, as a result of this truth, we are to also be faithful  (Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering)  so that God can work through our physical life and then bless us.  Thus, we are to do the rest of this sentence so that God can work in our lives, and then bless us, and through our lives so that God can use us to bless others.
• Hebrews 11:11:  Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.  This sentence is part of the 'faith chapter' and gives us an example of Sarah receiving a miracle because she judged him faithful who had promised.  Lots of people want a miracle from God but refuse to have her level of faith.  As someone who has personally received many miracles from God, I can testify that true Biblical faith  is an absolute requirement for receiving any miracle from God.  We must believe the promises of God, which are physically impossible, if we are to be truly faithful.
• 1Peter 4:19:  Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.  This sentence provides the conclusion of a chapter on saints suffering.  We are to rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings.  Because we are told to commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.  God created man with a perfect body.  But man sinned and brought in corruption and death.  In addition, we each are personally guilty of sin and cause our own corruption and death.  We are required, by faith,  to believe that God will keep our soul  and redeem our body after we get to Heaven.  If God had redeemed our bodies, as well as our souls, then true Biblical faith  would not be required.
• 1Peter 5:12:  By Silvanus, a faithful brother unto you, as I suppose, I have written briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand.  Peter wrote that he committed this letter, and ministry, to a faithful brother  ('a saved person who was faithful to God and His word').  We are to also look for such to help us in our own God given ministry.
• 1John 1:9:  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.  This sentence is often preached rightly and often preached wrongfully.  It is God's Son Jesus Christ  Who is faithful.  However, many people ignore, and deliberately leave out, the and  of our sentence.  If people do not let Him cleanse us from all unrighteousness  ('remove the sin from our life'), then He also will NOT forgive us our sins.  The truly saved will have those sins revealed at the judgment seat of Christ and all of Heaven will knows that truth about the saved for all of eternity.
• Many preachers believe, and insist upon preaching, doctrinal error about the book of Revelation.  They call it 'revelations' (plural) and insist it is all about future events.  If that were true, then God would not have included the following sentence.  Revelation 10:4 says: And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not.  They also claim that this book is called Revelations (plural) and not Revelation (singular) because it is all about revealing future events.  They are calling God's word a lie.  The book opens with: The Revelation of Jesus Christ  and ends with: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.  It has one theme: revealing that Jesus Christ  is KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.  Please keep that in mind as you read these references from this book.
• Revelation 1:5:  John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth.  Our sentence tells us that Jesus Christ.  is: the faithful witness.  Our sentence tells us that this book comes from Jesus Christ  and from the seven Spirits which are before his (God's) throne.  It also tells us important doctrine about Jesus Christ,  which is the basis for His having John write this book.  Since He is the faithful witness,  we can believe the prophecy which He gives.  Many people have perverted what is written here.  Therefore, people need to be sure to believe what is actually written and not what some religious liar claims.  What He tells us about God the Father and about Heaven and about future events is in direct obedience to God the Father.
• Revelation 2:10:  Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.  Here we see an everlasting promise to people who are faithful unto death.  Liars say that people can 'claim' this promise while refusing to fulfill the requirements specified in this sentence.  We also find this promise in .  Many people like to claim that this crown is also given to people who do not fulfill the requirements of these two verses.  However, such claims add to the word of God and are lies from devils.
• Revelation 2:12-14 tells us what our Lord Jesus Christ  wrote to the angel (pastor) of the church in Pergamos.  He also has this written to all saved people who hold to similar doctrinal error.  Our Lord Jesus Christ  writes: Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.  (Correction from the word of God).  Those saved people who refuse to truly Biblically repent  will suffer in Heaven and have tears an average of more than twice a week and for more than 1,000 years.  That is what the true sword of my mouth  warns saved people.  Here we see that God records and knows who serves Him and what they do to serve Him.  In context, we can believe that Antipas received a crown of life  because he fulfilled the requirement of the prior sentence.
• Revelation 3:14:  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodicea's write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.  This sentence is telling us many attributes of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We already saw that He is God the Father's faithful and true witness.  By the word of God stating this truth twice, we know that it is part of God's never changing Law.  Our sentence starts the message to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans.  Religious liars claim that what is written to this church applies to all of the world and we cannot win souls to true salvation because it is 'The Church Age of Laodicea'.  That doctrinal lie is designed to convince saved people to disobey their Lord  and not do the 'Great Commission'.  It denies our God given requirement for the true church to be different from the world.  Our sentence tells us that our Lord Jesus Christ  is the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.  (Please see the note for this sentence on ljc1611kjv.com for the explanation of the true details written to this church.)  What is often preached about this sentence is a lie from devils.
• Revelation 17:14 says: These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.  This sentence tells us, among other things, the requirements for saved people to return to the Earth with Christ  to live, rule and reign for 1,000 years.  It amazes me how many saved people do not realize that God's word tells us these requirements and how many people want to argue against what is literally said here.  Too many believe the devil's lie that salvation alone is required.  If the reader has read what is actually written in this Study, then they know that many saved people are not faithful.  And, while all saved are called,  not all saved are chosen  by Christ  because they have spent their physical life refusing to work for God's kingdom.  Jesus  explained this truth in Matthew 10:38-39; Matthew 16:24-25; Mark 8:34-35; Luke 9:23-24; Luke 17:33; and John 12:25.  Please see the notes on ljc1611kjv.com for the explanation of these verses related to this truth.  This sentence tells us the requirements for someone to return with Jesus Christ  for the 1,000 year reign of Christ.  There arte many lies told about who will be included including that lost people have a chance, or that fulfilling religious requirement makes someone eligible or even that all saved are included.  The lost are excluded by the requirement of being saved (called).  The religious are excluded by the requirement of being chosen.  The saved, but not serving in this life, are excluded by the requirement of being faithful.  Make sure that you fulfill; all of God's requirements before you 'claim' this promise.
• Revelation 19:11:  And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.  Once more, we see that our Lord Jesus Christ  is called Faithful.  This sentence is part of the description our Lord Jesus Christ  as He prepares to return to this Earth and remove all devils and sin from the Earth.  He is faithful  because He never changes and He can be relied upon to fight against devils and sin.
• Revelation 21:5:  And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.  Here, we see the same massage as John 1:1 where our Lord Jesus Christ  and the word of God are identified the same way.  These words are true and faithful  because they are spoken by our God Who is true and faithful.
• Revelation 22:6:  And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.  As with the prior sentence, we see that our Lord Jesus Christ  and the word of God are identified the same way.  However, our sentence also tells us that our Lord Jesus Christ  is also called his angel  because our sentence says the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done  and our book started by telling us that Jesus Christ  revealed these things to John.  These sayings are true and faithful  because they are spoken by our God Who is true and faithful.

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Faithfulness

We find word faithfulness  occurring 19 times in the Bible.  Please see below for those references.  The words faith  and faithful  are defined elsewhere in this Study.  The New Testament for this word is: 'the noun form of the word faithful'.  Please also see the note for James 2:21-LJC about the phrase Abraham's faith.  The New Testament for this word is: 'he is our example to follow in this world'.  Please also see the note for Romans C10S12 about the phrase faith makes us not ashamed.

Webster's 1828 defines this word as: 'n.  1. Fidelity; loyalty; firm adherence to allegiance and duty; as the faithfulness of a subject.  2. Truth; veracity; as the faithfulness of God.  3. Strict adherence to injunctions, and to the duties of a station; as the faithfulness of servants or ministers.  4. Strict performance of promises, vows or covenants; constancy in affection; as the faithfulness of a husband or wife'.

Nave's Topical Bible provides links for the word faithfulness  as: 'EXHORTATION TO:  Ps 12:1; 31:23; Pr 20:6; 28:20; Mt 10:22; 24:45-47; 25:14-23; Lu 12:42-44; 16:10-12; 19:12-27; 1Co 4:2; Re 2:10.  INSTANCES OF:  Abraham:  Ga 3:9.  Moses:  Heb 3:5.  David:  2Sa 22:22-25.  Elijah:  1Ki 19:10,14.  Abijah:  2Ch 13:4-20.  Jehoshaphat:  2Ch 20:1-30.  Job:  Job 1:21-22; 2:9-10'.

Thompson Chain Topics provides links for the word faithfulness  as: 'Of God:  De 7:9; 9:5; 1Ki 8:56; Ps 36:5; 89:1; 105:8; 1Co 1:9; Heb 6:18; 1Pe 4:19.  Of Christ:  1Th 5:24; 2Th 3:3; 2Ti 2:13; Heb 2:17; 10:23; Re 1:5; 19:11.  Of Men:  Of Joseph:  Ge 39:6.  The Workmen Under Jehoiada:  2Ki 12:15.  The Workmen Under Hilkiah:  2Ch 34:11-12.  Nehemiah's Treasurers:  Ne 13:13.  Of Daniel:  Da 6:4.  Required of Stewards:  1Co 4:2.  Of Moses:  Heb 3:5.  In Business:  Faithfulness To God, examples of:  Nu 12:7; 14:24; 1Ki 19:18; Ne 7:2; 1Co 4:17; Col 1:7; 4:9; Re 17:14'.

Torrey's Topical Textbook provides links for the word faithfulness  as: 'A characteristic of saints:  Eph 1:1; Col 1:2; 1Ti 6:2; Re 17:14.  EXHIBITED IN:  The service of God:  Mt 24:45.  Declaring the word of God:  Jer 23:28; 2Co 2:17; 4:2.  The care of dedicated things:  2Ch 31:12.  Helping the brethren:  3Jo 1:5.  Bearing witness:  Pr 14:5.  Reproving others:  Pr 27:6; Ps 141:5.  Situations of trust:  2Ki 12:15; Ne 13:13; Ac 6:1-3.  Doing work:  2Ch 34:12.  Keeping secrets:  Pr 11:13.  Conveying messages:  Pr 13:17; 25:13.  All things:  1Ti 3:11.  The smallest matters:  Lu 16:10-12.  Should be unto death:  Re 2:10.  ESPECIALLY REQUIRED IN:  Ministers:  1Co 4:2; 2Ti 2:2.  The wives of ministers:  1Ti 3:11.  The children of ministers:  Tit 1:6.  Difficulty of finding:  Pr 20:6.  The wicked devoid of:  Ps 5:9.  Associate with those who exhibit:  Ps 101:6.  Blessedness of:  1Sa 26:23; Pr 28:20.  Blessedness of, illustrated:  Mt 24:45; 25:21,23.  Exemplified:  Joseph, Ge 39:22-23.  Moses, Nu 12:7; Heb 3:2,5.  David, 1Sa 22:14.  Hananiah, Ne 7:2.  Abraham, Ne 9:8; Ga 3:9.  Daniel, Da 6:4.  Paul, Ac 20:20,27.  Timothy, 1Co 4:17.  Tychicus, Eph 6:21.  Epaphras, Col 1:7.  Onesimus, Col 4:9.  Silvanus, 1Pe 5:12.  Antipas, Re 2:13'.

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The verses which use this word are:

• 1Samuel 26:23 says: The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD'S anointed.  David said this to Saul when he found Saul asleep while Saul was chasing David to kill him.  In Deuteronomy 32:35, God says that To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.  That part of God's Law was part of David's reasoning when he let Saul live.
• Psalms 5:9 says: For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.  .  .  .  .
• Psalms 36:5 says: Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.  Our Psalm starts by describing a person who lives in sin and iniquity.  Our sentence starts several which tell us how to return to being right with God if we have been living this way.
• Psalms 40:10 says: I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.  Our Psalm starts with: I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.  Our Psalm tells us the right way to respond after a long time when it seems like God is not listening to our prayers.  When God blesses us, the correct response is to witness to others about God's love and blessings.
• Psalms 88:11 says: Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?  This Psalm starts with the psalmist confessing that he is in a very bad place, possible close to death.  However, no matter how bad our circumstances are, we are to praise God while we are still alive.  Once dead, we can no longer be a witness to other living people and our everlasting rewards will directly result from how mush we work for God and His kingdom while we are still alive.
• Psalms 89:1-4 says: I will sing of the mercies of the LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens. I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.  This is the opening sentences of a Psalm that tells us to Praise God and gives us several reasons why we should do so.  It starts with the attributes and promises of God and these verses end with Selah  ('think about it').  God does not need our praise.  These instructions are for our own good.  A recent study found that thoughts of thankfulness releases chemicals into our mind which make us happy.  This type of praise not only gets us blessings which are promised in God's word, but they immediately help to lift our mood when devils are trying to tear us down.
• Psalms 89:5 says: And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O LORD: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.  Our sentence continues the prior reference and tells us to praise God n the congregation of the saints.  We are blessed, and encouraged by God, when we first encourage other saved people in church.
• Psalms 89:8 says: O LORD God of hosts, who is a strong LORD like unto thee? or to thy faithfulness round about thee?  This verse follows two other verses which tell us to consider that there is no other being who is like our God.  There are 6 other Bible references where wee read: What is man?  People who do not recognize God's uniqueness and thing that God is like some other man are miserable.
• Psalms 89:24 says: But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.  This is in the midst of several promises, from God, to any of His people who praise His name.  People want the promise of: his horn be exalted  but refuse to fulfill God's requirement as said in this sentence.
• Psalms 89:33 says: Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.  This sentence follows a couple which tell us how God will deal with His disobedient children.  Even when God has to punish His children, they have a promise that He will do it in love.
• Psalms 92:1-3 says: It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High: To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night, Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.  This Psalm is one of many places where the word of God tells the doctrinal error of people who claim that worship of God should not include instruments nor singing.  This Psalm gives us instruction for how to have a good night's sleep and how to enjoy the days of our lives.
• Psalms 119:75 says: I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me  When we complain about God afflicting  us, we call this verse a lie.  The truth of this verse is that God afflicts  us for our good and very few people understand this truth.
• In addition to God being faithful,  Psalms 119:86 says: All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.  When we believe that God's commandments are faithful,  and we obey them no matter what circumstances we face, we can call on God for protection as we obey.  There are times when God allows His servants to face what appears to be sure death and God expects then to faithfully,  obey His commandments with the full expectation of reward from God even if they die.
• Psalms 143:1 says: A Psalm of David. Hear my prayer, O LORD, give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, and in thy righteousness.  This tells us that we are to pray expecting an answer from God but only if our prayer marched God's righteousness.
• Isaiah 25:1 (O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth)  tells us that we are to praise God for His being faithful.
• Lamentations 3:23 tells us that Jeremiah praised God for His faithfulness  even while he was lamenting.  He could do this because he concentrated on It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.  We need to concentrate of the good things which God provides in order to be faithful  through many toils of life.
• Hosea 2:19-20 says: And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.  AFTER God's people truly repent and stop their false worship  God promises to be this way in the relationship but we must also be faithful.  True knowledge  of God requires us to act in an ongoing personal relationship, which is pictured by true marriage, and requires us being faithful.  Many of God's people do not truly know  God because they refuse to be truly faithful.

If the reader has truly looked at what is presented in this Study, it should be apparent that Few people present all that the word of God says is involved in true Biblical faith  and that a lot of people have been deceived by devil motivated liars or by people who claim to be a Bible authority but believed a lie without truly verifying what they claim against what God truly wrote in the word of God.  God gave each of us a brain and the Word of God.  Therefore, we have no excuse for being deceived.

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