70 Bible Verses about Optimism

But I [am] like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God. I trust the loyal love of God forever and ever.

Those who trust in Yahweh [are] like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, [but] abides forever.

Make me know your ways, O Yahweh. Teach me your paths. Cause me to walk in your truth and teach me, because you [are] the God of my salvation. I await you {all day long}.

God, whose word I praise, God I trust; I do not fear. What can [mere] flesh do to me?

because you [are] my hope, O Lord Yahweh, my confidence from my youth.

I will say to Yahweh, "[You are] my refuge and my fortress, my God [in whom] I trust."

Yahweh is good--a refuge in [the] day of distress; [he knows] those who take refuge in him.

who delivered us from so great [a risk] of death, and will deliver [us], in whom we have put our hope that he will also deliver [us] again, [while] you also join in helping {on our behalf} by prayer, so that thanks may be given {on our behalf} by many persons for this gracious gift [given] to us through [the help] of many.

Yahweh [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? Yahweh [is] the refuge of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers drew near against me to eat my flesh-- my adversaries and my enemies [who drew near] to me-- they themselves stumbled and fell. Though an army encamp against me, my heart will not fear. Though war arise against me, [even] in this I [will] remain confident.

Blessed be the person who trusts in Yahweh, and Yahweh is his trust.

But [as for] me, I will look to Yahweh; I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

So then, we can say with confidence, "The Lord [is] my helper, I will not be afraid. What will man do to me?"

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

Now the one who has prepared us for this very [thing] [is] God, who has given us the down payment, the Spirit. Therefore, [although we are] always confident and know that [while we] are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord-- for we live by faith, not by sight--read more.
so we are confident and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

But I do confess this to you, that according to the Way (which they call a sect), so I worship the God of our fathers, believing all things [that are] in accordance with the law and that are written in the prophets, having a hope in God which these [men] also themselves await: [that] there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

For through the Spirit by faith we eagerly await the hope of righteousness.

I give thanks to my God upon my every remembrance of you, always in my every prayer for all of you, making the prayer with joy, because of your participation in the gospel from the first day until now,read more.
convinced of this same [thing], that the one who began a good work in you will finish [it] until the day of Christ Jesus,

And you will say on that day, "I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me. Look! God [is] my salvation; I will trust, and I will not be afraid, for my strength and might [is] Yah, Yahweh; and he has become salvation for me."

Shecaniah son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, "We ourselves have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, and even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

Now we possess such confidence through Christ toward God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as from ourselves, but our adequacy [is] from God,

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

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given [us] eternal encouragement and good hope by grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen [you] in every good work and word.

Dear friends, if our heart does not condemn [us], we have confidence before God, and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do [what is] pleasing {in his sight}.

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

And those who know your name will trust in you, for you do not forsake those [who] seek you, O Yahweh.

Trust Yahweh and do good. Abide [in the] land and feed on faithfulness. Take pleasure in Yahweh as well, and he will give to you the requests of your heart. {Commit to} Yahweh your way; Trust also on him and he will act.

Why are you {in despair}, O my soul, and disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will again praise him, [for] the salvation of his presence.

O Israel, trust Yahweh; he [is] their help and their shield. O house of Aaron, trust in Yahweh; he [is] their help and their shield. [You who] fear Yahweh, trust in Yahweh; he [is] their help and their shield.

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you--not as the world gives, I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, and do not let [them] be afraid.

I have said these [things] to you so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have affliction, but have courage! I have conquered the world."

rejoicing in hope, enduring in affliction, being devoted to prayer,

Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,

For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who has been tempted in all [things] in the same way, without sin.

Therefore, brothers, [since we] have confidence for the entrance into the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus, [by the] new and living way which he inaugurated for us through the curtain, that is, his flesh, and [since we have] a great priest over the house of God,read more.
let us approach with a true heart in the full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled [clean] from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast to the confession of [our] hope without wavering, for the one who promised [is] faithful.

Therefore, {when you have prepared your minds for action} [by] being self-controlled, put your hope completely in the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And now, little children, remain in him, so that whenever he is revealed we may have confidence and not be put to shame before him at his coming.

With him [is] the arm of flesh, and with us [is] Yahweh our God, to help us and to fight our battles." And the people took confidence with the words of Hezekiah, king of Judah.

Anxiety in the heart of a man will weigh him down, but a good word will cheer him.

The heart of her husband trusts in her, and gain he will not lack.

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, [after you] have suffered for a short time, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, [and] establish [you].

Great [is] my confidence toward you; great [is] my boasting on your behalf; I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God [is] faithful, by whom you were called to fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

Because of this, I have sent to you Timothy, who is my dear and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ Jesus, just as I teach everywhere in every church.

And our hope for you [is] firm, [because we] know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also [you will be sharers] in the comfort.

And I wrote this very [thing] in order that [when I] came, I would not experience sorrow from those who ought to have made me glad, [because I] have confidence about you all, that my joy {belongs to all of you}.

And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times in many [things] that he is diligent, but now much more diligent [because of his] great confidence in you.

But you know his proven character, that like a child with a father he served with me for the gospel.

together with Onesimus, my faithful and dear brother, who is [one] of you. They will make known to you all {the circumstances} here.

for which reason also I suffer these [things]. But [I am] not ashamed, because I know in whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard [what] I have entrusted until that day.

Do not place trust in princes, in a son of humankind with whom there is no deliverance.

And Gaal son of Ebel and his relatives came, and they crossed over into Shechem, and the lords of Shechem {gave him confidence}.

Then Samuel said, "Bring Agag the king of Amalek out to me!" Agag came to him confidently, for Agag thought, "Surely the bitterness of death {is over}."

They are disappointed, because they trusted; they came {here} and they are confounded.

While it [is] in its flower [and] is not plucked, yet it withers {before} all grass. So [are] the paths of all who forget God; and [the] hope of [the] godless will perish,

With the death of a wicked person, hope will die, and the expectation of the godless perishes.

Do not trust in {the deceitful words}, {saying}, 'The temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, they [are] the temple of Yahweh.'

"Let everyone be on your guard against his neighbor, and you must not trust in any brother, for everyone surely betrays, and every neighbor goes about [with] slander.

For even your relatives, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you, even they call {loudly} after you. You must not trust in them, though they speak kindly to you.

Why do you boast in [your] valleys? Your valleys [are] ebbing. O unfaithful daughter, who trusted in her treasures, [who said], 'Who will come against me?'

And it will not be again for the house of Israel an object of trust, bringing to remembrance [their] guilt {when they turned back to them}, and they will know that I [am] the Lord Yahweh."

Therefore, [although we are] always confident and know that [while we] are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord--

Rejoice always,

Be strong and let your heart show strength, all [you] who wait for Yahweh.

A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a downcast spirit will dry out bones.

For thus says Yahweh, '{As soon as the time has passed}, seventy years for Babylon, I will attend to you, and I will fulfill my good word to you, to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans that I [am] planning concerning you,' {declares} Yahweh, 'plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.

This [is] the day Yahweh has worked; let us rejoice and be glad in him.

I lift up my eyes to the mountains; whence will my help come?

He is not afraid of bad news; his heart [is] steadfast, secure in Yahweh. His heart [is] sustained; he will not be afraid, until he looks [in triumph] on his enemies.

Observe [the] blameless and look at [the] upright, for [there is] a future for a man of peace.