Faith to move mountains. Faith like a mustard seed. The shield of faith. The faith of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others in Hebrews 11.
Pistis is the Greek word for faith. Pistis can also be translated as belief, trust, or faithfulness. It occurs 243 times in the New Testament according to Strong’s.
Faith is a gift from God. If we have no faith, we can ask God to give us faith. If we want our faith strengthened, we simply need to ask God to strengthen our faith.
Mark 11:22-23 NIV “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. “Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.” (Believes in this verse is from the Greek word pisteuo which is a verb derived from pistis that means to believe or have faith in.)
Luke 17:6 NIV He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard see, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.
Romans 10:17 NASB So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:5 NIV so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
2 Corinthians 13:5 NIV Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you–unless, of course, you fail the test?
Galatians 2:20 NIV I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 3:26 KJV For ye are all children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 5:22-23 NASB But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Ephesians 2:8 NIV For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–
Ephesians 6:16 NIV In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
1 Timothy 6:12 NIV Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Hebrews 11:7-8 NIV By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith. By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.
Hebrews 11:20-21 KJV By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, leaning upon the top of his staff.
James 1:6 NASB But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
Other verses:
Matthew 21:21-22
Mark 2:5, 10:52
Luke 7:9, 17:5
Acts 6:8, 14:22
Romans 3:28, 5:1
1 Corinthians 13:13
Galatians 2:16
Ephesians 3:17
1 Timothy 4:1, 4:12
2 Timothy 2:22, 4:7
Titus 1:6
Hebrews Chapter 11
James 1:3, 2:17-26
1 John 5:4
Revelation 2:19
The G/K number for pistis is 4411.
The Strong’s number for pistis is 4102
