Bible Verses About Faith

Summary: A curated list of 5 Bible verses about faith — Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:6, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Ephesians 2:8, and Romans 10:17 — each paired with a short reflection on what the verse offers for the days believing feels like a decision you have to make on purpose.

Faith grows in the space between what you know and what you cannot yet see. Scripture describes it as something given, tested, and strengthened over time, which is worth remembering on the days it feels thin.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

This is the closest thing scripture gives to a definition. Faith is treated as substance and evidence, a way of holding on to what is real before it is visible.

Hebrews 11:6

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.

Two simple convictions sit underneath faith here: that God is, and that he responds to those who seek him. Everything else grows from those two.

2 Corinthians 5:7

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Short enough to memorize in a breath. Paul frames the whole Christian life as walking, ordinary and daily, guided by faith for the stretches where sight runs out.

Ephesians 2:8

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.

Paul is careful to name faith itself as a gift. It is received before it is exercised, which takes some of the pressure off the days it feels small.

Romans 10:17

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Faith is described here as something that grows by input. It comes by hearing, which is part of why returning to scripture, again and again, matters.

Growing faith day by day

On the days your faith feels small, this is good news: it grows by hearing. A steady rhythm of scripture, kept each morning in Devotional, is one ordinary way to feed it.