Blind Faith

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen me,you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen, and have believed.”

A simple man believes everything, but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

while we don’t look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

What good is it, my brothers, if a man says he has faith, but has no works? Can faith save him? — read the full passage →

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. — read the full passage →

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts; and always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear:

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.

until the day in which he was received up, after he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. — read the full passage →

He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’ — read the full passage →

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand! Repent, and believe in the Good News.”

I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.

throwing down imaginations and every high thing that is exalted against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ;

Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!”

I said therefore to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I amhe, you will die in your sins.”

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.

Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

The soul who sins, he shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. — read the full passage →

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

The disciples came, and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” — read the full passage →

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable works. There is no one who does good.

You see that faith worked with his works, and by works faith was perfected;

“Most certainly I tell you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has eternal life, and doesn’t come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.

Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Truly the signs of an apostle were worked among you in all patience, in signs and wonders and mighty works.

The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?

But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear. — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

testifying both to Jews and to Greeks repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

Then one possessed by a demon, blind and mute, was brought to him and he healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw.

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.

It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father’s wife. — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

since indeed there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith, and the uncircumcised through faith.

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead in itself.

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can’t deny himself.”

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.

This is the will of the one who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’” — read the full passage →

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.

This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.

Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”