John 7:26
And behold, he is speaking openly and they are saying nothing to him! Can it be that the rulers truly know that this man is the Christ?
John 7:48
{None} of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, [have they]?
Psalm 40:9-10
I have brought good tidings [of] righteousness in the great congregation. Look, I have not shut my lips. O Yahweh, {you surely know that}.
Psalm 71:15-16
My mouth will tell of your righteousness, your salvation {all day long}, though I do not know [the full] sum [of them].
Proverbs 28:1
The wicked flee, but no one pursues, but the righteous is bold like a lion.
Isaiah 42:4
He will not grow faint, and he will not be broken until he has established justice in the earth. And [the] coastlands wait for his teaching.
Isaiah 50:7-8
And the Lord Yahweh helps me, therefore I have not been put to shame; therefore I have set my face like flint. And I know that I shall not be ashamed;
Matthew 22:16
And they sent their disciples to him with the Herodians, saying, "Teacher, we know that you are truthful and teach the way of God in truth, and {you do not care what anyone thinks}, {because you do not regard the opinion of people}.
Luke 7:30
but the Pharisees and the legal experts rejected the purpose of God for themselves, [because they] had not been baptized by him.)
John 9:22
(His parents said these [things] because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him [to be] Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.
John 11:47-53
So the chief priests and the Pharisees called together the Sanhedrin and said, "What are we doing? For this man is performing many signs!
John 12:42
Yet despite that, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they did not confess [it], so that they would not be expelled from the synagogue.
Acts 4:13
Now [when they] saw the boldness of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were astonished, and recognized them, that they had been with Jesus.
Ephesians 6:19-20
and for me, that a word may be given to me at the opening of my mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel,
Philippians 1:14
and most of the brothers, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, dare [even] more to speak the word without fear.
2 Timothy 1:7-8
For God has not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power and love and self-discipline.