We are confident, I say, and would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.

lest if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, wenot to say anything about you would be ashamed of having been so confident.

You look at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ's, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.

For I am confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

wanting to be teachers of the Law, even though they do not understand either what they are saying or the matters about which they make confident assertions.

Confident of your obedience, I write to you, knowing that you will do even more than I say.

Even though we speak like this, beloved, we are confident of better things in your case, things that accompany salvation.