'Confidence' in the Bible
However, through all this you did not have confidence in the Lord your God,
They will besiege all of your villages until all of your high and fortified walls collapse -- those in which you put your confidence throughout the land. They will besiege all your villages throughout the land the Lord your God has given you.
The priest said to them, "Go with confidence. The Lord will be with you on your mission."
Then the Benjaminites saw they were defeated. The Israelites retreated before Benjamin, because they had confidence in the men they had hid in ambush outside Gibeah.
The chief adviser said to them, "Tell Hezekiah: 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: "What is your source of confidence?
Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?
"If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, 'You are my security!'
Patiently wait for God alone, my soul! For he is the one who gives me confidence.
Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! If wealth increases, do not become attached to it!
For you give me confidence, O Lord; O Lord, I have trusted in you since I was young.
Then they will place their confidence in God. They will not forget the works of God, and they will obey his commands.
for the Lord will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.
In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and it will be a refuge for his children.
So that your confidence may be in the Lord, I am making them known to you today -- even you.
Like a bad tooth or a foot out of joint, so is confidence in an unfaithful person at the time of trouble.
The heart of her husband has confidence in her, and he has no lack of gain.
The chief adviser said to them, "Tell Hezekiah: 'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: "What is your source of confidence?
Stop putting your confidence in the false belief that says, "We are safe! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here!"
"'But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.
My blessing is on those people who trust in me, who put their confidence in me.
It will never again be Israel's source of confidence, but a reminder of how they sinned by turning to Egypt for help. Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.'"
If you don't inform me of the dream, there is only one thing that is going to happen to you. For you have agreed among yourselves to report to me something false and deceitful until such time as things might change. So tell me the dream, and I will have confidence that you can disclose its interpretation."
For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God -- not by human wisdom but by the grace of God -- we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.
And with this confidence I intended to come to you first so that you would get a second opportunity to see us,
Now we have such confidence in God through Christ.
I have great confidence in you; I take great pride on your behalf. I am filled with encouragement; I am overflowing with joy in the midst of all our suffering.
And we are sending with them our brother whom we have tested many times and found eager in many matters, but who now is much more eager than ever because of the great confidence he has in you.
For if any of the Macedonians should come with me and find that you are not ready to give, we would be humiliated (not to mention you) by this confidence we had in you.
now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that (I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving according to human standards.
What I am saying with this boastful confidence I do not say the way the Lord would. Instead it is, as it were, foolishness.
and most of the brothers and sisters, having confidence in the Lord because of my imprisonment, now more than ever dare to speak the word fearlessly.
-- though mine too are significant. If someone thinks he has good reasons to put confidence in human credentials, I have more:
So, although I have quite a lot of confidence in Christ and could command you to do what is proper,
But Christ is faithful as a son over God's house. We are of his house, if in fact we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope we take pride in.
For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the sanctuary by the blood of Jesus,
So do not throw away your confidence, because it has great reward.
So we can say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper, and I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"
And now, little children, remain in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink away from him in shame when he comes back.
Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, we have confidence in the presence of God,
By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.
And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
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