Bible Verses About Creeds

Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Faith once delivered passage

So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Faith comes by hearing passage

One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

one faith, one baptism

For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

truth-centered summary

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

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He that speaketh truth sheweth forth righteousness: but a false witness deceit.

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For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

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Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

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Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

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Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.

Sound doctrine passage

Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

Apostolic preaching of resurrection

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

truth and word of God wording

Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

holding the mystery of the faith

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

Direct passage that no lie is of the truth.

But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

Direct passage for doing truth and coming to the light.

The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.

Direct passage for the permanence of truth.

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Direct passage for buying and valuing truth.

Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.

Direct passage for God's word as truth.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Direct passage for speaking truth with neighbors.

Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

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But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

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But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Scriptural testing of apostolic claims

For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

apostolic summary of Christ dying for sins

And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

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But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Explicit confession before authorities

If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

Sound doctrine and wholesome words

By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

Hold fast the preached word

Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

apostolic preaching about death and resurrection

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

confession with mouth and heart

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Direct passage for the Word and God.

Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

Direct passage for abiding in Christ's doctrine.

This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

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