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Healer Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

Difference between "trust in" and "trust".

I wonder what is the difference between the following pairs.

I trust you.
I trust in you.

I believe you.
I believe in you.
  

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" is ungrammatical. And the first and fourth ones have a similar meaning. Some examples of usage: A: "Take this briefcase with $50,000 cash in it, and deposit it in the bank in my account.

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  • " is ungrammatical.
  • And the first and fourth ones have a similar meaning.
  • Some examples of usage: A: "Take this briefcase with $50,000 cash in it, and deposit it in the bank in my account.
  • " B: "That's an awful lot of money to trust someone with.
  • " A: "Don't worry.
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Note: The second one, "I trust in you." is ungrammatical. And the first and fourth ones have a similar meaning. Some examples of usage:

A: "Take this briefcase with $50,000 cash in it, and deposit it in the bank in my account. Here's one of my deposit slips."
B: "That's an awful lot of money to trust someone with. I don't know if I you should do this."
A: "Don't worry.
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There are a lot of examples in Christian material with "trust in"

For examples:
Jesus I trust in you.
Lord I trust in you.

In the English Oxford dictionary, it saysas follows
"v.i. Have faith or confidence in the loyalty, strength, veracity, etc., of a person or thing; rely on a person or thing to do. Foll. by in, †on, to, †upon. ME."

So "trust in" is possibl
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healerI trust you.I trust in you.
I see no difference in meaning.
healerI believe you.I believe in you.
Those are quite different; the first means that I believe what you said, while the second means that I trust your character and abilities.
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