100 Bible Verses About Doubt
Bible verses about Doubt
Doubt, a common thread in the human experience, can feel like a chasm separating us from faith. But within the scriptures, doubt isn't presented as a fatal flaw, but rather as an invitation to deeper understanding. Exploring these verses allows us to recognize the struggles of biblical figures who wrestled with uncertainty, offering comfort and solidarity. By examining doubt through a biblical lens, we learn to approach our own questions with honesty and courage, ultimately strengthening our faith through seeking truth and leaning on God's unwavering presence amidst our uncertainties. The Bible offers not just solace, but a pathway to transform doubt into a catalyst for spiritual growth and unwavering trust.
Featured Verse
Proverbs 5:23 (KJV)
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Conquering Doubt: Bible Verses for Strength & Faith
The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.
And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say unto your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children.
And the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.
He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour’s standing corn.
O God, how long shall the adversary reproach? shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
And they said, Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard it.
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
And the Lord did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and out of the fields.
And he said, Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant? for what have I done? or what evil is in mine hand?
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:
And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous.
And they departed from Kibroth–hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
And he knew it, and said, It is my son’s coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
And thou, my lord, O king, the eyes of all Israel are upon thee, that thou shouldest tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
And the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said unto him, Make this fellow return, that he may go again to his place which thou hast appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he be an adversary to us: for wherewith should he reconcile himself unto his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?
A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.
And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
And thou shalt go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down unto thee, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace offerings: seven days shalt thou tarry, till I come to thee, and shew thee what thou shalt do.
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.
But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.
They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?
Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.
And when Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house, they said, Where is Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They be gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
And I said unto them, Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me: then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.
The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?
Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest?
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
And at evening let them return; and let them make a noise like a dog, and go round about the city.
And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?
And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until even, and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.)
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself?
The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
And he was sore athirst, and called on the Lord, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the Lord.
They feared the Lord, and served their own gods, after the manner of the nations whom they carried away from thence.
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
And another company turned the way to Beth–horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Lord.
Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.
Then said I, Ah, Lord God! behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?
And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.
Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.
Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.
The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.
Exploring Bible verses about doubt reveals a consistent thread: acknowledging doubt is not inherently sinful, but wrestling with it and seeking God's truth is crucial for spiritual growth. These verses demonstrate that even figures like John the Baptist and Thomas experienced doubt, highlighting its commonality in the human experience. The key takeaway is not the absence of doubt, but the active pursuit of faith despite it. Scripture encourages honest questioning, earnest prayer, and reliance on God's promises as anchors in the midst of uncertainty. Ultimately, by examining these passages, we are called to reflect on our own doubts, bring them before God, and allow His word to illuminate the path toward deeper understanding and unwavering faith. Embrace the journey of questioning and seeking, for it is within this process that true faith is often strengthened and refined.