So I am always cheerful and confident, although I know that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from home and the Lord

and yet I am cheerful and confident, but really I prefer to be away from home in the body and to be at home with the Lord.

You look at me and measure me by outward appearances. If anyone is confident in himself that he belongs to Christ, let him have another thought about himself, that just as he belongs to Christ, so do I.

and that most of the Christian brothers have grown confident enough, because of my imprisonment, to dare to tell God's message without being afraid.

They want to be teachers of the law, although they do not understand the words they use or the things about which they make such confident assertions.

So you must never give up your confident courage, for it holds a rich reward for you.

To some people who were confident that they themselves were upright, but who scorned everybody else, He told the following story: