Proverbs 3:5 asks for something specific and difficult: trust with all your heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. It is not asking you to stop thinking. It is asking you not to rest your whole weight on your own conclusions.
David's line in Psalm 56 is the most honest sentence about trust in the Bible: what time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. He does not claim the fear goes away. He puts trust and fear in the same moment, which is where they usually live.
Paul's we walk by faith, not by sight is four words of description, not encouragement. Walking without seeing is the ordinary condition, not a failure of it.
The verses
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Proverbs 3:5Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Open → Proverbs 3:6In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Open → Psalms 56:3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.
Open → Isaiah 26:3Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
Open → Psalms 37:5Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Open → Jeremiah 17:7Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Open → Psalms 9:10And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
Open → 2 Corinthians 5:7For we walk by faith, not by sight:
Open → Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Open → Psalms 118:8It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
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Scripture: King James Version, public domain. Last updated August 15, 2026.