70 Bible Verses about Optimism

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the loving kindness of God forever and ever.

Those who trust in LORD are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever.

Show me thy ways, O LORD. Teach me thy paths. Guide me in thy truth, and teach me. For thou are the God of my salvation. For thee do I wait all the day.

In God I will praise his word. In God I have put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

For thou are my hope, O lord LORD, my trust from my youth.

I will say of LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.

LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble, and he knows those who take refuge in him.

Who rescued us out of so great a death, and does rescue, in whom we have hoped that he will also still rescue. And of you who help together by supplication for us (a gift for us from many persons, because of many), so that there may be gratitude about you.

LORD is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear? LORD is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [even] my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

Blessed is the man who trusts in LORD, and whose trust LORD is.

But as for me, I will look to LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

So then we have confidence to say, Lord is a helper to me, and I will not fear. What will man do to me?

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

Now he who wrought us for this same thing is God, who also gave us the pledge of the Spirit. Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight.read more.
And we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be at home near the Lord.

But this I confess to thee, that according to the Way that they call a sect, so serve I the paternal God, believing all things written according to the law and the prophets, having hope toward God, which they themselves also await, to come to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

For we, in a Spirit of faith, wait for a hope of righteousness.

I thank my God upon every memory of you, always in my every entreaty for all of you, making the entreaty with joy for your participation in the good-news from the first day until now.read more.
Being confident of this same thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

And in that day thou shall say, I will give thanks to thee, O LORD, for though thou were angry with me. Thine anger is turned away and thou comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid, for LORD, [even] LORD, is my strength and song, and he has become my salvation.

And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this th

And we have such confidence toward God through Christ, not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through his faith.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and our God and Father who loved us and gave eternal encouragement and good hope through grace, encourage your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

Beloved, if our heart should not condemn us, we have confidence toward God, and whatever we may ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do things pleasing in his sight.

Let not your heart be troubled. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, for ye to abound in hope in the power of Holy Spirit.

And those who know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek thee.

Trust in LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and feed on [his] faithfulness. Delight thyself also in LORD, and he will give thee the desires of thy heart. Commit thy way to LORD. Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.

Why are thou cast down, O my soul? And [why] are thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him [for] the help of his countenance.

O Israel, trust thou in LORD. He is their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust ye in LORD. He is their help and their shield. Ye who fear LORD, trust in LORD. He is their help and their shield.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you, not as the world gives, do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be cowardly.

These things I have spoken to you, so that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye have tribulation. But cheer up, I have overcome the world.

rejoicing in hope, enduring tribulation, persevering in prayer,

Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who was tempted in all things in the same way, without sin.

Having therefore, brothers, boldness for entrance into the holy things by the blood of Jesus, which he inaugurated for us, a new and living way through the curtain, that is, his flesh, and a great priest over the house of God,read more.
let us approach with a TRUE heart in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our body washed in pure water. Let us hold firm the affirmation of the hope unwavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Therefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope entirely for the grace brought to you at the revealing of Jesus Christ.

And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he is made known, we may have confidence, and not be shamed by him at his coming.

With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Heaviness in the heart of a man makes it droop, but a good word makes it glad.

The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he shall have no lack of gain.

And may the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ Jesus (after suffering a little while) himself thoroughly prepare you. He will establish, strengthen, and provide a foundation.

Great is my boldness toward you, great is my pride for you. I have been filled with encouragement. I over-abound with joy in all our affliction.

who will also confirm you until the end, irreproachable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful through whom ye were called for the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Because of this I sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ, just as I teach everywhere in every congregation.

knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so also of the encouragement.

And I wrote this same thing to you, so that when I came, I would not have sadness from whom I ought to rejoice, having been confident toward you all, because my joy is of all of you.

And we sent along with them our brother whom we often proved being diligent in many things, but is now much more diligent (with much confidence toward you)

But ye know the proof of him, that, as a child to a father, he served with me for the good-news.

with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother who is of you. They will make known to you all things here.

Because of which reason I also suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to preserve my consignment for that day.

Put not your trust in rulers, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem, and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.

Then Samuel said, Bring ye here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came to him cheerfully. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

They were put to shame because they had hoped. They came there, and were confounded.

While it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, it withers before any [other] herb. So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish,

When a wicked man dies, [his] expectation shall perish, and the hope of iniquity perishes.

Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of LORD, the temple of LORD, the temple of LORD, are these.

Take ye heed each one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother, for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

For even thy brothers, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee, even they have cried aloud after thee. Believe them not, though they speak fair words to thee.

Why do thou glory in the valleys, thy flowing valley? O backsliding daughter, who trusted in her treasures, [saying], Who shall come to me?

And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to remembrance, when they turn to look after them. And they shall know that I am lord LORD.

Therefore always being confident, and knowing that while at home in the body we are absent from the Lord,

Rejoice always.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all ye who hope in LORD.

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

For thus says LORD, After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you in causing you to return to this place. For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope in your latter end.

This is the day which LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where shall my help come?

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is fixed, trusting in LORD. His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, [even] until he looks over his adversaries.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for there is a [happy] end to the man of peace.