The Character of God – Week 6: Faithful
“Yahweh, Yahweh, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, overflowing with loyal love and faithfulness.” —Exodus 34:6
The Hebrew word emet – often translated as
as a verb – “
The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul;the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; —PSALM 19:7 ESV
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
—PROVERBS 27:6 ESV
Emet and Related Words
Nouns - Someone or something that is
Verbs - To
“Yahweh, Yahweh, compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, overflowing with loyal love and faithfulness.”
Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment. —PROVERBS 12:19 ESV
And they did not ask for an accounting from the men into whose hand they delivered the money to pay out to the workmen, for they dealt honestly. —2 KINGS 12:15 ESV
Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. —Exodus 18:21 ESV
And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.” —Joshua 2:14 ESV
and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master’s kinsmen.” —GENESIS 24:27 ESV
Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O Lord, faithful God.
—PSALM 31:5 ESV
“The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice.A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. —DEUTERONOMY 32:4 ESV
5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”
6 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness. —GENESIS 15:5-6 ESV
16 That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,
17 as it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.
18 In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
20 No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised.22 That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.”
23 But the words “it was counted to him” were not written for his sake alone,
24 but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in him who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord,
25 who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
—ROMANS 4:16-25 ESV
“If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign. 9 If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.” —EXODUS 4:8-9 ESV
9 And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you forever.”
When Moses told the words of the people to the Lord, —EXODUS 19:9 ESV
31 And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped. —EXODUS 4:31 ESV
Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses. —EXODUS 14:31 ESV
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them? —NUMBERS 14:11 ESV
7 You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. 8 You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous. —NEHEMIAH 9:7-8 ESV
14 “Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. —JOSHUA 24:14 ESV
20 If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.” —Joshua 24:20 ESV
22 Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.” —Joshua 24:22 ESV
Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you. —1 SAMUEL 12:24 ESV
15 but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.
16 And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever [endure / ne’eman] before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’” —2 SAMUEL 7:15-16 ESV
23 And now, O Lord, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as you have spoken, 24 and your name will be established and magnified forever, saying, ‘The Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, is Israel’s God,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you.
—1 CHRONICLES 17:23-24 ESV
3 and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn, 4 that the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’
—1 KINGS 2:3-4 ESV38 And if you will listen to all that I command you, and will walk in my ways, and do what is right in my eyes by keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, I will be with you and will build you a sure house, as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you. —1 KINGS 11:38 ESV
1 I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord, forever; with my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations.2 For I said, “Steadfast love will be built up forever; in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness.”3 You have said, “I have made a covenant with my chosen one; I have sworn to David my servant:4 ‘I will establish your offspring forever, and build your throne for all generations.’” Selah —PSALM 89:1-4 ESV
for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith. —GALATIANS 3:26 ESV
1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
—ROMANS 5:1-2 ESV
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. —JOHN 3:16 ESV
And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. —1 CORINTHIANS 15:14 ESV
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. —MATTHEW 23:23 ESV
22 And it has often cast him into fire and into water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
23 And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”
24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!” —MARK 9:22-24 ESV
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith (pistis) in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. —Galatians 2:20 ESV