What the Bible says
Lamentations was written over a ruined city, yet the prophet remembered, “It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not” (Lamentations 3:22). God’s faithfulness does not depend on how things look. Moses called Him “the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him” (Deuteronomy 7:9). What He was to Israel in the wilderness, He still is to His people, every morning.
God is faithful because He cannot lie. “God is not a man, that he should lie … hath he said, and shall he not do it?” (Numbers 23:19). At the end of his life Joshua told Israel that “not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you” (Joshua 23:14). Paul says that “all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen” (2 Corinthians 1:20). In Christ every promise of God is kept.
His faithfulness holds even when ours fails. “If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself” (2 Timothy 2:13). When we sin and come back to Him confessing, “he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). In temptation, “God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able” (1 Corinthians 10:13). His steadiness, not ours, is the believer’s comfort.
Because He is faithful, we can hold on. “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering” (Hebrews 10:23), for He who promised is faithful. Paul assures us, “Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it” (1 Thessalonians 5:24), and “he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ” (Philippians 1:6). He does not change: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Hebrews 13:8).
14 verses, King James Version
1 John 1:9
Faithful and just to forgive our sins
9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2 Corinthians 1:20
All God's promises are yea in Christ
20For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Philippians 1:6
He will finish the good work He began
6Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Psalms 36:5
His faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds
5Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.
Lamentations 3:22–23
New mercies every morning
22It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Deuteronomy 7:9
He keeps covenant
9Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
1 Corinthians 1:9
Called into fellowship with His Son
9God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
2 Timothy 2:13
Faithful even when we are not
13If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.
Hebrews 10:23
He keeps His promises
23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
Numbers 23:19
God does not lie
19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Joshua 23:14
Not one promise failed
14And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.
1 Thessalonians 5:23–24
The One who calls you will do it
23And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus never changes
8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
Psalms 119:89–90
His word stands forever
89For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven. 90Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (public domain). Read aloud by Anthony.