Doubting
62 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
Exemplified
- Genesis 12:12–13 and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live. …
- Genesis 15:8 But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”
- Genesis 18:12–14 So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?” …
- Genesis 19:30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains — for he was afraid to stay in Zoar — where they lived in a cave.
- Genesis 20:2 Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
- Genesis 20:11 Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
- Genesis 26:7 But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is …
- Exodus 3:11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
- Exodus 4:1 Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”
- Exodus 4:10 “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
- Exodus 4:13 But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”
- Exodus 5:22–23 So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, “Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me? …
- Exodus 6:12 But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I am unskilled in speech?”
- Exodus 14:10–12 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD. …
- Exodus 14:15 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to Me? Tell the Israelites to go forward.
- Numbers 11:21–22 But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’ …
- Judges 6:13 “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has …
- Judges 6:15 “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”
- 1 Samuel 16:1–2 Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a …
- 1 Samuel 17:11 On hearing the words of the Philistine, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and greatly afraid.
- 1 Samuel 17:24 When all the men of Israel saw Goliath, they fled from him in great fear.
- 1 Samuel 22:3–4 From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab, where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I learn what God will do for me.” …
- 1 Kings 18:7–14 Now as Obadiah went on his way, Elijah suddenly met him. When Obadiah recognized him, he fell facedown and said, “Is it you, my lord Elijah?” …
- 1 Kings 19:13–18 When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?” …
- 2 Kings 13:18–19 Then Elisha said, “Take the arrows!” So he took them, and Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground!” So he struck the ground three times and stopped. …
- Jeremiah 1:6 “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
- Jeremiah 32:24–25 See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see! …
- Matthew 8:23–27 When He got into the boat, His disciples followed Him. …
- Matthew 11:2–3 Meanwhile John heard in prison about the works of Christ, and he sent his disciples …
- Matthew 14:29–31 “Come,” said Jesus. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water, and came toward Jesus. …
- Matthew 17:14–21 When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus and knelt before Him. …
- Matthew 28:17 When they saw Him, they worshiped Him, but some doubted.
- Mark 9:14–29 When they returned to the other disciples, they saw a large crowd around them, and scribes arguing with them. …
- Mark 16:10–11 She went and told those who had been with Him, who were mourning and weeping. …
- John 14:8–11 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.” …
- Acts 9:13–14 But Ananias answered, “Lord, many people have told me about this man and all the harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. …
General Scriptures Concerning
- Job 4:3–6 Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands. …
- Job 9:16–23 If I summoned Him and He answered me, I do not believe He would listen to my voice. …
- Job 23:15–17 Therefore I am terrified in His presence; when I consider this, I fear Him. …
- 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. …
- 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. …
- 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. …
- 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”? …
- Isaiah 49:14–15 But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me; the Lord has forgotten me!” …
- 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 …
- 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 Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.
- Lamentations 3:17–18 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is. …
- 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 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?”
- Mark 4:40 “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
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.