70 Bible Verses about Optimism

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy and loving kindness of God forever and ever.

They who trust in Jehovah are like Mount Zion. It is not shaken, but remains forever.

Make your ways known to me, O Jehovah, and teach me your paths. Make me walk (guide me) (bend me) in your truth and teach me because you are my God of salvation. I wait all day long for you.

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

Lord Jehovah, I put my hope in you. I have trusted in you since I was young.

I will say to Jehovah: You are my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust.

Jehovah is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble! He knows (protects) (takes care of) those who take refuge in him.

God delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver us. We have set our hope on him. He will deliver us! You also helped with your prayer on our behalf. Many may give thanks for the gift granted to us.

([Psalm of David]) Jehovah is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Jehovah is the stronghold of my life. Who is there to be afraid of? Evildoers accosted me to tear me to pieces. My opponents and enemies stumbled and fell. Even though an army sets up camp against me, my heart will not be afraid. Even though a war breaks out against me, I will trust in Jehovah.

Blessed is the man who trusts in Jehovah, whose refuge and security (confidence and hope) is Jehovah.

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

So that with good confidence (courage) we say: Jehovah is my helper; I will not fear: What shall man do to me? (Psalm 56:11)

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

He that prepared us for this very purpose is God. He gave the Spirit to us as a guarantee (pledge) (security). We are always confident for we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We walk by faith, not by sight.read more.
We are of good courage, I say, and are willing to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

This I confess to you that according to The Way, which they call a sect, I serve the God of our fathers. I believe all the things written in the law and the prophets. I have hope toward God, which they also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and the unrighteous.

For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

I thank my God for all my memories of you. I always offer prayer filled with joy for you, and for your fellowship in participation of the good news from the first day until now.read more.
I am confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ.

In that day you will say: I will praise you, O Jehovah. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me. Truly God is my salvation! I will trust and not be afraid. Jehovah... Jehovah is my strength and my song! He has become my salvation.

Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land. But still there is hope for Israel in this question.

We have such confidence through Christ toward God. We are not adequate by ourselves to account for anything. Our adequacy is from God.

We have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good word and work.

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us we have confidence toward God. Whatever we ask we receive from Him because we obey His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

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

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

Those who know your name, Jehovah, will trust you. You do not abandon anyone who comes to you.

Trust Jehovah and do good things. Live in the land, and practice being faithful. Be happy with Jehovah and he will provide you with the desires of your heart. Dedicate your life to Jehovah. Trust him, and he will act on your behalf.

Why am I discouraged? Why am I so restless? I put my hope in God for I will still praise him. He is my salvation and my God.

O Israel, trust Jehovah. He is your helper and your shield. O Descendants of Aaron, trust Jehovah. He is your helper and your shield. If you reverence and respect Jehovah, trust Jehovah. He is your helper and your shield.

Peace I leave with you! My peace I give to you. I do not give as the world gives to you. Do not let your heart be troubled or full of fear.

I spoke to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you have tribulation. Be of good cheer for I have conquered the world!

Rejoice in hope! Be patient in tribulation. Continue in prayer.

Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded (arrogant), not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

We do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our infirmities (weaknesses). He was tested in all things like ourselves. Yet he was without sin!

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, having a high priest over the house of God,read more.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful that promised.

Brace up your minds. Remain sober, and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Now, my little children dwell (Greek: meno: stay, dwell, be present) with him. If he shall be made known we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming (presence) (being near).

Jehovah our God fights on our side. The Assyrians must rely on human power alone. These words encouraged the army of Judah.

Anxiety in the heart of man make it heavy, but a good word makes it glad.

The heart of her husband safely trusts her. He will have no lack of gain.

After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will perfect, establish, and strengthen you.

Great is my confidence in you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in our entire affliction.

He will also confirm (establish) you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

I send Timothy, my beloved son faithful in the Lord, to you for this purpose. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ, just as I teach it in every congregation.

Our hope for you is steadfast; knowing that, as you are partakers of the sufferings, so you also partake of the comfort.

I wrote this very thing that when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice. I have confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

We send our brother with them, whom we have many times proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

But you know of his proven worth. It was like a son with his father that he served with me to further the good news.

He will be with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you all things that are done here.

It is for this reason that I suffer these things. But I am still full of confidence, because I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to keep safe until that day what he has entrusted to me.

Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.

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

Bring me King Agag of the Amalekites, Samuel said. Agag came to him trembling. Surely, the bitterness of death is past, Agag said.

They are distressed! They were once confident. They arrive there, only to be disappointed.

While still growing and uncut, they wither more quickly than grass. Such is the destiny of all who forget God. The hope of the godless will perish.

When a wicked man dies his expectation perishes, indeed the hope of unjust men perishes.

Do not trust in deceptive words. They say: 'This is the Temple of Jehovah, the Temple of Jehovah, and the Temple of Jehovah.

Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor. Do not trust any brother because every brother deals craftily (cunningly), and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer.

Even your relatives, members of your own family, have betrayed you. They join in the attacks against you. Do not trust them, even though they speak friendly words.

Why do you brag about your valleys, your fertile valleys, you unfaithful people? You trust your treasures. You think: Who would attack me?

It will never again be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing to mind the iniquity of their having turned to Egypt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Jehovah.'

We are always confident for we know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord.

Rejoice always.

Be strong, all who wait with hope for Jehovah, and let your heart be courageous.

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

This is what Jehovah says: 'When Babylon's seventy years are over I will come to you. I will keep my promise to you and bring you back to this place. I know the plans (intentions) (thoughts) that I have for you, says Jehovah. They are plans (intentions) for peace and not disaster. They are intentions to give you a future filled with hope.

This is the day Jehovah has made let us rejoice and be glad in it!

I will lift up my eyes to the mountains from where my help comes.

He is not afraid of bad news. His heart remains secure, full of confidence in Jehovah. His heart is steady, and he is not afraid. In the end he will look triumphantly at his enemies.

Mark the blameless man, and behold the upright. His future will be filled with peace.