27 Bible Verses About Distrust

Here are 27 Bible verses about distrust from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible (King James Version), sorted from most to least relevant.

Jeremiah 9:4 KJV

Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.

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Mark 10:22 KJV

And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions.

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Ezekiel 33:13 KJV

When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

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Psalms 146:3 KJV

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

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Deuteronomy 9:23-24 KJV

Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you.

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Job 39:12 KJV

Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

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Psalms 118:8 KJV

It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.

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Micah 7:5 KJV

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

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Jeremiah 13:25 KJV

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.

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Malachi 3:6-10 KJV

For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return? Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

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Acts 15:37-38 KJV

And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work.

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Zephaniah 3:2 KJV

She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.

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Job 4:18 KJV

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

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Psalms 78:7 KJV

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

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Psalms 44:6 KJV

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

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Jeremiah 7:4 KJV

Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

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Judges 11:19-20 KJV

And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said unto him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land into my place. But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

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Jeremiah 12:6 KJV

For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

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Job 15:15 KJV

Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.

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Psalms 5:9 KJV

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

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Matthew 19:22 KJV

But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

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Genesis 32:6-8 KJV

And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him. Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands; And said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the other company which is left shall escape.

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Habakkuk 2:18 KJV

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

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2 Kings 17:14-15 KJV

Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God. And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.

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Deuteronomy 1:32-33 KJV

Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God, Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to shew you by what way ye should go, and in a cloud by day.

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John 2:24 KJV

But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,

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Genesis 50:15-17 KJV

And when Joseph’s brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him. And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died, saying, So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

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