Perhaps you are confident that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in the dark, an instructor of the unintelligent,

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the Lord.

I implore you not to drive me to "show my boldness," when I do come, by the confident tone which I expect to have to adopt towards some of you, who are expecting to find us influenced in our conduct by earthly motives.

You look at the outward appearance of things! Let any one, who is confident that he belongs to Christ, reflect, for himself, again upon the fact--that we belong to Christ no less than he does.

For of this I am confident, that he who began a good work in you will complete it in readiness for the Day of Jesus Christ.

Yes, I am confident that this is so, and therefore I am sure that I shall stay, and stay near you all, to promote your progress and joy in the Faith;

And I am confident, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, that before long I myself shall follow.

But about you, dear friends, even though we speak in this way, we are confident of better things--of things that point to your Salvation.