22 Bible Verses about False Confidence

Charge those who are rich in this age, that they be not proud, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us all things richly for our enjoyment,

and I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry. But God said to him: Senseless man, this night shall your soul be required of you; and who shall have the things which you have provided?

Therefore, let no one glory in men; for all things are yours,

cultivate the same disposition, one to ward another: mind not high things, but conform yourselves to things that are lowly. Be not wise in your own conceits;

But we have in ourselves the sentence of death, that we may not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead;

And his disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus, answering again, said to them: Children, how hard it is for those who trust in riches to enter the kingdom of God!

While the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

Peter said to him: Though all should find occasion for offense, yet I will not. And Jesus said to him: Verily I say to you, this day, during this very night, before the cock crows twice, you will deny me three times. But he said with the more vehemence: Though it should be necessary for me to die with thee, I would not deny thee. And so said they all.

Peter answered and said to him: Though all shall be offended at thee, yet will I never be offended. Jesus said to him: Verily I say to you, This night, before the cock crows, you will deny me three times. Peter said to him: Though it should be necessary for me to die with thee, I will not deny thee. In like manner said all the disciples.

And he said to him: Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both to prison and to death.

Peter said to him: Lord, why can I not follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

Take heed, therefore, lest the light that is in you be darkness.

and I will say to my soul: Soul, you have many good things laid up for many years; take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.

And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day in which Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. In like manner also, as it was in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;read more.
but in the day in which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day in which the Son of man is revealed.

And he spoke this parable to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and who despised others. Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.read more.
I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner. I say to you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For every one that exalts himself, shall be humbled; but he that humbles himself, shall be exalted.

Think not that I will accuse you to the Father: there is one that accuses you, Moses, in whom you trust.

But do you, man, who judge those that practice such things, and yet do the same, conclude that you will escape the judgment of God?

Be not deceived; God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that also shall he reap.

for when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as the pains of birth upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.

Come, now, you that say, Let us go to-day, or to-morrow, into this city, and remain there a year, and trade, and make gain; and yet you know not what will take place to-morrow. For what is your life? Is it not, indeed, a vapor, that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away? Instead of that, you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

As much glory and voluptuousness as she has given to herself, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she says in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.