Doubting: General Scriptures Concerning
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Job 4:3–6
Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. / Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling. / But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.
Job 9:16–23
If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice. / For He would crush me with a tempest and multiply my wounds without cause. / He does not let me catch my breath, but overwhelms me with bitterness.
Job 23:15–17
Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him. / God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified me. / Yet I am not silenced by the darkness, by the thick darkness that covers my face.
Job 30:20, 21
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me. / You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
Psalm 22:2
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
Psalm 31:22
In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
Psalm 42:5, 6
Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence. / O my God, my soul despairs within me. Therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan and the peaks of Hermon—even from Mount Mizar.
Psalm 49:5
Why should I fear in times of trouble, when wicked usurpers surround me?
Psalm 73:13–17
Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure; in innocence I have washed my hands. / For I am afflicted all day long and punished every morning. / If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
Psalm 77:3
I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
Proverbs 24:10
If you faint in the day of distress, how small is your strength!
Isaiah 40:27, 28
Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”? / Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary; His understanding is beyond searching out.
Isaiah 49:14, 15
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!” / “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!
Isaiah 50:2
Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert; the fish rot for lack of water and die of thirst.
Jeremiah 8:18
My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.
Jeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me—water that is not there.
Jeremiah 45:3
You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”
Lamentations 3:8, 17, 18
Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer. / My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. / So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”
Lamentations 5:20
Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
Hosea 10:3
Surely now they will say, “We have no king, for we do not revere the LORD. What can a king do for us?”
Matthew 8:26
“You of little faith,” Jesus replied, “why are you so afraid?” Then He got up and rebuked the winds and the sea, and it was perfectly calm.
Matthew 14:31
Immediately Jesus reached out His hand and took hold of Peter. “You of little faith,” He said, “why did you doubt?”
Matthew 17:17
“O unbelieving and perverse generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me.”
Mark 4:38, 40
But Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on the cushion. So they woke Him and said, “Teacher, don’t You care that we are perishing?” / “Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”
Mark 9:19
“O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”
Luke 8:25
“Where is your faith?” He asked. Frightened and amazed, they asked one another, “Who is this? He commands even the winds and the water, and they obey Him!”
Luke 9:40
I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”
1 Peter 1:6
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials