📖 Bible Reference Chain: Faith & Trust in God

This Bible reference chain on Faith & Trust in God guides you step by step through Scripture, helping you strengthen your confidence in His promises. Beginning with the foundation of faith, each verse builds on the last, showing how trust grows through belief, reliance, and obedience to God. You’ll see how faith brings peace in anxious times, courage to face trials, and hope in His unchanging promises.

By following this chain, you’ll learn to walk by faith, not by sight, anchoring your heart in the assurance that God is faithful. Use this chain to highlight, underline, and mark your Bible, creating a visual map of trust that you can return to whenever you need courage, guidance, or reassurance in God’s steadfast care.

1. Faith Begins in Belief

• Hebrews 11:1 — Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
  → Next: Romans 10:17

• Romans 10:17 — So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
  → Next: John 20:29

• John 20:29 — Jesus said to him, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
  → Next: 2 Corinthians 5:7

• 2 Corinthians 5:7 — For we walk by faith, not by sight.
  → Next: Proverbs 3:5–6

2. Trusting God in Every Situation

• Proverbs 3:5–6 — 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.
  → Next: Psalm 37:5

• Psalm 37:5 — Commit your way to the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring it to pass.
  → Next: Isaiah 26:3–4

• Isaiah 26:3–4 — You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord God, we have everlasting strength.
  → Next: Matthew 6:25–27

• Matthew 6:25–27 — Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Look at the birds of the air... Are you not of more value than they?
  → Next: Philippians 4:6–7

3. Faith Brings Peace and Courage

• Philippians 4:6–7 — Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
  → Next: Psalm 56:3

• Psalm 56:3 — Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You.
  → Next: Jeremiah 17:7–8

• Jeremiah 17:7–8 — Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.
  → Next: Romans 8:28

• Romans 8:28 — And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.
  → Next: Psalm 9:10

4. Faith Holds Firm in God’s Promises

• Psalm 9:10 — Those who know Your name will put their trust in You; for You, Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.
  → Next: Isaiah 40:31

• Isaiah 40:31 — But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
  → Next: James 1:6–8

• James 1:6–8 — But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. Let not that man think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
  → Next: 2 Timothy 4:7

• 2 Timothy 4:7 — I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
  → Next: 1 Peter 1:8–9

• 1 Peter 1:8–9 — Whom having not seen you love. Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.

Now that you’ve built a foundation of faith and trust in God, explore how that trust brings peace and courage in every situation with the next chain.

• Next Chain: Peace & Courage Bible Reference Chain

• Focus Verses: Philippians 4:6–7, Isaiah 26:3, John 14:27, 2 Timothy 1:7