if you are also confident that you yourself are a guide for the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Therefore, we are always confident, especially since we know that, while living in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

we are confident, indeed, and would be pleased rather to depart from the body, and to dwell with the Lord.

lest, possibly, should the Macedonians come with me, and find you unprepared, we (not to say you) might be made ashamed by this same confident boasting.

being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you, will carry it on till the day of Jesus Christ;

But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, and of things that tend to salvation, though we thus speak.