8 Bible Verses about Competence

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

My son, let them not depart from thine eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion, so they shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck. Then thou shall walk in thy way securely, and thy foot shall not stumble.read more.
When thou lay down, thou shall not be afraid. Yea, thou shall lay down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. Be not afraid of sudden fear, nor of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes. For LORD will be thy confidence, and will keep thy foot from being taken. Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thy hand to do it. Do not say to thy neighbor, Go, and come again, and tomorrow I will give, when thou have it by thee. Do not devise evil against thy neighbor, since he dwells securely by thee. Do not strive with a man without cause, if he has done thee no harm. Do not envy thou the man of violence, and choose none of his ways. For the perverse man is an abomination to LORD, but his friendship is with the upright. The curse of LORD is in the house of a wicked man, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. Surely {the Lord is opposed to the arrogant (LXX/NT)}, but he gives grace to the lowly. The wise shall inherit glory, but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

The land of Egypt is before thee. Make thy father and thy brothers to dwell in the best of the land; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. And if thou know any able men among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

But it came to pass that, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. And he spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rub Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they are building, if a fox goes up he shall break down their stone wall.

And we have such confidence toward God through Christ, not that we are sufficient of ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God,

Now the God of peace, who brought up from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep by the blood of an eternal covenant--our Lord Jesus-- may he make you fully qualified in every good work in order to do his will, doing in you what is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory into the ages of the ages. Truly.

Be diligent to present thyself approved to God, an irreproachable workman, correctly traversing the word of truth.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old he will not depart from it.