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20 Bible Verses About Trusting God and Relying on Him

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Summary

  • Several well-known verses about trusting God were written to people who were waiting, including Habakkuk 2:3, Psalm 27:14 and Lamentations 3:22-23.
  • Proverbs 3:5 does not forbid thought; lean is a physical word about where our weight goes when the ground is uncertain.
  • Psalm 55:22 promises support inside the weight rather than the weight removed.
  • Isaiah 12:2 puts trust in the future tense — a decision rather than something that descends.
  • “Be strong and courageous” is said to Joshua three times in nine verses, so needing it repeated is built into how it was given.

Trusting God in the Bible means relying on him when the outcome cannot yet be seen, and many of the best-known verses on it were written to people who were waiting. Habakkuk is told that the revelation may linger and that he should wait for it. The psalmist says “wait for the Lord” twice in one verse. Lamentations was written after Jerusalem was destroyed and still speaks of mercies that are new every morning. Other verses here say what trust…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

“Be strong and courageous” is repeated to Joshua at Joshua 1:6, 1:7 and 1:9.

The “all these things” of Matthew 6:33 refers back to the food and clothing of Matthew 6:25-32.

Habakkuk 2:3 answers the complaint the prophet makes at Habakkuk 1:2-4.

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