πίστις pístis

Meaning

persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself

In the King James Version: assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity

Derivation: from G3982 (πείθω);

Where it is used

• Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard this, He marveled and said to those following Him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith.
• Matthew 9:2 Just then some men brought to Him a paralytic lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”
• Matthew 9:22 Jesus turned and saw her. “Take courage, daughter,” He said, “your faith has healed you.” And the woman was healed from that very hour.
• Matthew 9:29 Then He touched their eyes and said, “According to your faith will it be done to you.”
• Matthew 15:28 “O woman,” Jesus answered, “your faith is great! Let it be done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed from that very hour.
• Matthew 17:20 “Because you have so little faith,” He answered. “For truly I tell you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”
• Matthew 21:21 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen.
• Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
• Mark 2:5 When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.”
• Mark 4:40 “Why are you so afraid?” He asked. “Do you still have no faith?”
• Mark 5:34 “Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be free of your affliction.”
• Mark 10:52 “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” And immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road.
• Mark 11:22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus said to them.
• Luke 5:20 When Jesus saw their faith, He said, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.”
• Luke 7:9 When Jesus heard this, He marveled at the centurion. Turning to the crowd following Him, He said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such great faith.”
• Luke 7:50 And Jesus told the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
• 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 8:48 “Daughter,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you. Go in peace.”
• Luke 17:5 The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
• Luke 17:6 And the Lord answered, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.
• Luke 17:19 Then Jesus said to him, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well!”
• Luke 18:8 I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”
• Luke 18:42 “Receive your sight!” Jesus replied. “Your faith has healed you.”
• Luke 22:32 But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith will not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
• Acts 3:16 By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through Him that has given him this complete healing in your presence.
• Acts 6:5 This proposal pleased the whole group. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, as well as Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas from Antioch, a convert to Judaism.
• Acts 6:7 So the word of God continued to spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem grew rapidly, and a great number of priests became obedient to the faith.
• Acts 11:24 Barnabas was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and faith, and a great number of people were brought to the Lord.
• Acts 13:8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for that is what his name means) opposed them and tried to turn the proconsul from the faith.
• Acts 14:9 This man was listening to the words of Paul, who looked intently at him and saw that he had faith to be healed.
• Acts 14:22 strengthening the souls of the disciples and encouraging them to continue in the faith. “We must endure many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
• Acts 14:27 When they arrived, they gathered the church together and reported all that God had done through them, and how He had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
• Acts 15:9 He made no distinction between us and them, for He cleansed their hearts by faith.
• Acts 16:5 So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
• Acts 17:31 For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
• Acts 20:21 testifying to Jews and Greeks alike about repentance to God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Acts 24:24 After several days, Felix returned with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess. He sent for Paul and listened to him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
• Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
• Romans 1:5 Through Him and on behalf of His name, we received grace and apostleship to call all those among the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith.
• Romans 1:8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being proclaimed all over the world.
• Romans 1:12 that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith.
• Romans 1:17 For the gospel reveals the righteousness of God that comes by faith from start to finish, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.”
• Romans 3:3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness?
• Romans 3:22 And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no distinction,
• Romans 3:25 God presented Him as an atoning sacrifice in His blood through faith, in order to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance He had passed over the sins committed beforehand.
• Romans 3:26 He did this to demonstrate His righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and to justify the one who has faith in Jesus.
• Romans 3:27 Where, then, is boasting? It is excluded. On what principle? On that of works? No, but on that of faith.
• Romans 3:28 For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
• Romans 3:30 since there is only one God, who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same faith.
• Romans 3:31 Do we, then, nullify the law by this faith? Certainly not! Instead, we uphold the law.
• Romans 4:5 However, to the one who does not work, but believes in Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is credited as righteousness.
• Romans 4:9 Is this blessing only on the circumcised, or also on the uncircumcised? We have been saying that Abraham’s faith was credited to him as righteousness.
• Romans 4:11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. So then, he is the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, in order that righteousness might be credited to them.
• Romans 4:12 And he is also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised, but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
• Romans 4:13 For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world was not given through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
• Romans 4:14 For if those who live by the law are heirs, faith is useless and the promise is worthless,
• Romans 4:16 Therefore, the promise comes by faith, so that it may rest on grace and may be guaranteed to all Abraham’s offspring—not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham. He is the father of us all.
• Romans 4:19 Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah’s womb.
• Romans 4:20 Yet he did not waver through disbelief in the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
• Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,