Lexicon :: Strong's G4103 - pistos

“Not so with my servant Moses;

he is faithful in[fn] all my household.

“Know that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps his gracious covenant loyalty for a thousand generations with those who love him and keep his commands.

“he will bring wondrous plagues on you and your descendants, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

The Rock ​— ​his work is perfect;

all his ways are just.

A faithful God, without bias,

he is righteous and true.

“ ‘Then I will raise up a faithful priest for myself. He will do whatever is in my heart and mind. I will establish a lasting dynasty for him, and he will walk before my anointed one for all time.

All Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was a confirmed prophet of the LORD.

Ahimelech replied to the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David? He is the king’s son-in-law, captain of your bodyguard, and honored in your house.

“Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD is certain to make a lasting dynasty for my lord because he fights the LORD’s battles. Throughout your life, may evil[fn] not be found in you.

She said, “In the past they used to say, ‘Seek counsel in Abel,’ and that’s how they settled disputes.

These are the last words of David:

The declaration of David son of Jesse,

the declaration of the man raised on high,[fn]

the one anointed by the God of Jacob.

This is the most delightful of Israel’s songs.

“ ‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in my ways, and do what is right in my sight in order to keep my statutes and my commands as my servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.

Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. He did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD his God like his ancestor David

You found his heart faithful in your sight,

and made a covenant with him

to give the land of the Canaanites,

Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites,

Jebusites, and Girgashites —

to give it to his descendants.

You have fulfilled your promise,

for you are righteous.

I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses the priest Shelemiah, the scribe Zadok, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy. They were responsible for the distribution to their colleagues.

He deprives trusted advisers of speech

and takes away the elders’ good judgment.

Yet the righteous person will hold to his way,

and the one whose hands are clean will grow stronger.

The instruction of the LORD is perfect,

renewing one’s life;

the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy,

making the inexperienced wise.

“I will always preserve my faithful love for him,

and my covenant with him will endure.

“like the moon, established forever,

a faithful witness in the sky.”Selah

My eyes favor the faithful of the land

so that they may sit down with me.

The one who follows the way of integrity

may serve me.

The works of his hands are truth and justice;

all his instructions are trustworthy.

Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom;

your rule is for all generations.

The LORD is faithful in all his words

and gracious in all his actions.[fn]

It will rescue you from the way of evil —

from anyone who says perverse things,

A gossip goes around revealing a secret,

but a trustworthy person keeps a confidence.

Be assured[fn] that a wicked person

will not go unpunished,

but the offspring of the righteous will escape.

A wicked envoy falls into trouble,

but a trustworthy courier brings healing.

An honest witness does not deceive,

but a dishonest witness utters lies.

A truthful witness rescues lives,

but one who utters lies is deceitful.

Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly,

and the pride of children is their fathers.

Many a person proclaims his own loyalty,

but who can find a trustworthy person?

To those who send him, a trustworthy envoy

is like the coolness of snow on a harvest day;

he refreshes the life of his masters.

The faithful town —

what an adulteress[fn] she has become!

She was once full of justice.

Righteousness once dwelt in her,

but now, murderers!

“I will restore your judges to what they were at first,

and your advisers to what they were at the start.

Afterward you will be called the Righteous City,

a Faithful Town.”

“I have appointed[fn] trustworthy witnesses ​— ​the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.”

“I will drive him, like a peg, into a firm place. He will be a throne of honor for his father’s family.

“On that day” ​— ​the declaration of the LORD of Armies ​— ​“the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

he will dwell on the heights;

his refuge will be the rocky fortresses,

his food provided, his water assured.

This is what the LORD,

the Redeemer of Israel, his Holy One, says

to one who is despised,

to one abhorred by people,[fn]

to a servant of rulers:

“Kings will see, princes will stand up,

and they[fn] will all bow down

because of the LORD, who is faithful,

the Holy One of Israel ​— ​and he has chosen you.”

“Pay attention and come to me;

listen, so that you will live.

I will make a permanent covenant with you

on the basis of the faithful kindnesses of David.[fn]

And they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we don’t act according to every word the LORD your God sends you to tell us.

“You saw a stone break off from the mountain without a hand touching it,[fn] and it crushed the iron, bronze, fired clay, silver, and gold. The great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is certain, and its interpretation reliable.”

The administrators and satraps, therefore, kept trying to find a charge against Daniel regarding the kingdom. But they could find no charge or corruption, for he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption was found in him.

Ephraim will become a desolation

on the day of punishment;

I announce what is certain

among the tribes of Israel.