Being always confident therefore, and knowing that while we are present in the body we are absent from the Lord,??7 we walk by faith, not by sight;??8 but we are confident, and are pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

and many of the brothers having been made confident by my bonds in the Lord have more abundant courage to speak the word without fear.

desiring to be teachers of the law, not understanding what they say nor about what they make confident assertions.