Your precious faith in Jesus increases when you add to it knowledge and obedience and endure testing.

  1. Home /
    2. Encouraging Devotionals /
  2. Your precious faith in Jesus increases when you add to it knowledge and obedience and endure testing.
Encouraging Devotionals

Your precious faith in Jesus increases when you add to it knowledge and obedience and endure testing.

Your precious faith in Jesus increases when you add to it knowledge and obedience and endure testing.

“but having hope, that as your faith is increased [auxano], we shall be greatly enlarged by you in our sphere” (2Cor 10:15)

“And the apostles said to the Lord, Increase [prostithemi] our faith.” (Lk 17:5)

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add [epichoregeo] to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance [hupomone]” (2Pet 1:5,6)

“that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing [auxano] in the knowledge of God” (Col 1:10)

“My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing [dokimion] of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.” (Jm 1:2-4)

that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious [timios] than gold that perishes, though it is tested [dokimazo] by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ” (1Pet 1:7)

“Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious [isotimos] faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ” (2Pet 1:1)

“So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight.” (2Cor 5:6-7)

“So the Lord said, If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea, and it would obey you.” (Lk 17:6)

“For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” (Rom 1:17)

“for the just shall live by faith.” (Gal 3:11)

“Now the just shall live by faith” (Heb 10:38)

“But the just shall live by his faith.” (Hab 2:4)

“I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” (Gal 2:20)

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” (Prov 3:5-6)

“And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance [hupomone]; and perseverance, character; and character, hope. Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” (Rom 5:3-5)

Reading: 2Cor 8-10; Lk 5