Bible Verses about “trusting people”
The Bible contains 34 verses about trusting people across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.”
“Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.”
“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
“In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.”
“Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but [rather] give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance [is] mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”
“¶ Blessed [is] the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.”
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.”
“The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.”
“But his delight [is] in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.”
“¶ Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
“And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.”
“¶ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.”
“Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:”
“The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“¶ The ungodly [are] not so: but [are] like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”
“Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.”
“For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
“It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.”
“So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.”
“[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.”
“For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son [in whom] he delighteth.”
“My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:”
“Blessed [is] the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.”
“For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and [that] spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.”
“¶ Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.”
“Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.”
“For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man's enemies [are] the men of his own house.”
“I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.”
“For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, [in] a salt land and not inhabited.”
“Cease ye from man, whose breath [is] in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?”
“[As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.”
“¶ A glorious high throne from the beginning [is] the place of our sanctuary.”
“Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.”