Abram believed the Lord, and the Lord considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty.

However, through all this you did not have confidence in the Lord your God,

He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

They believed his promises; they sang praises to him.

They rejected the fruitful land; they did not believe his promise.

I had faith when I said, “I am severely oppressed.”

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are excessive.

“If they do not believe you or pay attention to the former sign, then they may believe the latter sign.

then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a secure dynasty and he will serve my chosen one for all time.

Ephraim’s leader is Samaria, and Samaria’s leader is the son of Remaliah. If your faith does not remain firm, then you will not remain secure.”

My servant Moses is not like this; he is faithful in all my house.

If God puts no trust in his servants and attributes folly to his angels,

If I summoned him, and he answered me, I would not believe that he would be listening to my voice –

If God places no trust in his holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in his eyes,

Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.

If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

Where would I be if I did not believe I would experience the Lord’s favor in the land of the living?