No doubt he would have been ready to admit his knowledge, but Paul shows a disposition to come to closer quarters by his swift thrust, 'Believest thou the prophets?
He said to the weeping sister of Lazarus, 'Believest thou this?
Thou, then, that art indeed the coming sinner, believestall this.
Thou professest thou believest in Christ: is he thy joy, and the life of thy soul?
Thou believest with a false faith; because it taketh justification from the personal righteousness of Christ, and applies it to thy own.
Nor will it be to any boot14 to say, I believe there is a God and a Christ, for still thy sitting still doth demonstrate that either thou liest in what thou sayest, or that thou believest with a worse than a false faith.
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
God gave testimony of him by signs and wonders--'Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
Thou believest with a fantastical faith; for this faith is nowhere described in the Word.
Bring, then, thy heart to the Word daily, to try how thoubelievest the Word today, to try how it agrees with the Word today.
But who told thee that thy soul was such an excellent thing as by thy practice thou declarest thou believest it to be?
If thou believest it, though indeed there should be nothing of truth in what thou hast heard, yet will this lie 'drink up thy spirit,' even as if the tidings were true.
And I dare say, the reason why thou believest not, is not because thy sins are great, but because thou dost reason too much with that wicked enemy of man's salvation, and givest way too much to the fleshly reasoning of thine own heart.
Who ought to believe any longer in thee in this free age, when THOU believest in such divine donkeyism?
Then thou believest Jesus to be risen from the dead, they cried through the bars as he locked the gates.
All things are God, Paul: thou art God and I am God, but if I were to say thou art man and I am God, I should be the madman that thou believest me to be.
I may never see thy face again; thine eyes may never look into mine again; but I shake my skirts of thy blood if thou believest not in Christ.
But if thou believest not I conjure thee listen to me now as if thou wert the only person here.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee underneath the fig tree, believest thou?
So that, if thou truly believest in him, thine ear will be attentive to his voice in thee, and the door of thine heart open to his knocks.
For, if thou believest not in him, it is impossible that he should do thee good, or effect thy salvation: Christ works not against faith, but by it.
Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said to thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou?
Come, I'll ask thee another question: Wilt thou say that thou believest it, and that thou wouldst advise me to believe it, and put our lives into their hands upon these promises?
I don't ask thee what he promises, or by whom; but I ask thee this: Canst thou say that thou believest he intends to perform it?
Nor did Jesus Himself ask a later suppliant, "Believest thou that I am willing," but "Believest thou that I am able to do this?
Thou thatbelievest in him, believe him and take comfort.
Believest thou not, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me?
And if thou believest him deserving of chastisement with rods, why dost thou proclaim him to be innocent?
And behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto thee, I saw thee under the fig-tree, believest thou?
Thou believest thyself on the way to the heart of things: walk so, shine so, that all that see thee shall want to go with thee.
The porch is never to be shut against the poor fugitive; and the only proper inquiry as to opening the door of the church, is, 'If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest freely enter.
That thou believest in God, the one God and none other with Him, and that thou believest that Mohammed is His servant and His Apostle.
That thou believestin the Holy Angels and the Holy Books, the Pentateuch, the Psalms, the Gospels and the Koran.
That thou believest in the Last Day, and in the Providence of God both for good and for evil.
Then said she: 'This world of ours--thinkest thou it is governed haphazard and fortuitously, or believest thou that there is in it any rational guidance?
Yet if that license which thou believest to be permitted to them were taken away, the punishment of the wicked would be in great part remitted.
Or if thou esteem not thyself favoured by Fortune in that thy then seeming prosperity hath departed, deem not thyself wretched, since what thou nowbelievest to be calamitous passeth also.
For to think of things otherwise than as they are, thou believest to be incompatible with the soundness of knowledge.
In thy true judgment concerning the world's government, in that thou believest it subject, not to the random drift of chance, but to divine reason, we have the divine spark from which thy recovery may be hoped.
Lawrence said to him, "Believest thou with all thy heart?
And, my Drost, my faithful Aage, believest thou the same of him?
Believest thou, in truth, that the Evil One hath carried off yon murderer, both body and soul?
On the Day of His manifestation, unless thou truly believest in Him, naught can save thee from the fire, even if thou dost perform every righteous deed.
Know thou, that thou wilt succeed in doing so if thou believestwith undoubting faith.
But thou shrinkest from the sight of death, and thou believest that Heaven would be displeased because I make myself--or am chosen--the instrument of Heaven.
If thou believest that the Lord sanctions thee, that it is thy duty to go, I will say no more; go, and may God go with thee.
I beseech you let Christ come to you with the question of my text, and as He looks you in the eyes, hear Him say to you, 'Believest thou?
Every one of us shall give an account of himself,' and the lips that said so lovingly at the grave of Lazarus, 'Believest thou this?
All that may be yours on one condition: 'Believest thou?
Where I am there shall also My servant be'--'believest thou this?
It makes comparatively little difference to the substantial meaning whether we read 'believest thou?
We all have sinned and come short of the glory of God'--'believest thou this?
I go to prepare a place for you'--'believest thou this?
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish'--'believest thou this?
His life a ransom for many'--'believest thou this?
We must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ'--'believest thou this?
Being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ'--'believest thou this?
Let me dwell for a moment on the third of them--'believest thou?
So shall we ever be with the Lord'--'believest thou this?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "believest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
