102 Bible Verses about False Confidence

Ye shall not trust in nobles: in the son of man, to him no salvation.

For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword will not serve me.

Trust to Jehovah with all thy heart; and thou shalt not lean to thine understanding.

Cease to you from man of whom the breath is in his nose: for in what was he reckoned?

Thus said Jehovah: Cursed the man who shall trust in man, and set flesh his arm, and shall turn away his heart from Jehovah.

He trusting in his heart is foolish: and he going in wisdom shall be delivered.

Wherefore shall I fear in the days of evil, the iniquity of my heel shall surround me.

He trusting in his riches himself shall fall: and the just shall flourish as the foliage.

To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened. And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

Therefore let none boast in men. For all things are yours;

The king was not saved by much strength: the strong one will not be delivered by much power. The horse was false to salvation, and he shall not deliver by the multitude of his strength.

And they will say, Come, we will build to us a city, and a tower, its head to the heavens; and we will make to us a name, lest we shall be dispersed over the face of the earth.

Happy the man who set Jehovah his trust, and turned not to the arrogant, and those turning aside to falsehood.

I hated those watching vanities of falsehood, and I trusted to Jehovah.

Behold, you trusting to yourselves upon words of falsehood not to receive profit.

And it was in his hearing the words of this oath, and he blessed himself in his heart, saying, Peace shall be to me, if in the hardness of my heart, I shall go to add satiating to thirst:

And the king of Israel will answer and say, Speak ye. He binding shall not boast as he loosening.

Thou shalt not labor to become rich: cease from thy wisdom.

Sawest thou a man wise in his eyes? hope is for the foolish one more than for him.

Wo to the wise in their eyes, and knowing before their face.

Thinking the same towards one another. Not thinking high things but being led by humble things. Be not wise with yourselves.

And we ourselves have had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have trusted in ourselves, but in God raising the dead:

These in chariots, and these in horses: and in the name of Jehovah our God will we remember.

The horse was false to salvation, and he shall not deliver by the multitude of his strength.

They trusting upon their wealth, and they will glory in the multitude of their riches.

And ye made a gathering place between the two walls for the water of the old pool; and ye looked not to him making it, and ye saw not him forming it from far off.

Wo to those going down to Egypt for help; and they will look upon horses, and trust upon chariots, because they are many; and upon horsemen because they were strong greatly; and they looked not upon the Holy One of Israel, and sought not Jehovah. And he also being wise and he will bring evil, and he removed not his words: and he rose up against the house of those doing evil, and against the help of those working vanity. And the Egyptians, men and not God; and their horses, flesh and not spirit And Jehovah will stretch forth his hand, and he helping became weak, and he being helped, fell, and together shall they all be finished.

For because of thy boasting in thy works and in thy treasures, also thou shalt be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his chiefs together.

And he will answer And say to me, saying, This the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by strength, not by power, but by my spirit, said Jehovah of armies.

And his disciples were amazed at his words. And Jesus again having answered, says to them, How difficult, children, is it for those trusting in property to enter into the kingdom of God!

The king was not saved by much strength: the strong one will not be delivered by much power.

Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity.

Good to trust in Jehovah rather than to trust in man.

His spirit shall go forth, he shall turn back to his earth; in that day his thoughts perished.

And Ephraim will see his disease and Judah his wound, and Ephraim will go to Assur, and he will send to king Jareb: and he will not be able to heal for you, and he will not remove from you the wound.

And Ephraim will be as an enticed dove, not a heart: they called Egypt, they went to Assur.

Lest there be among you man or woman, or family or tribe, whom his heart turn this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of these nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poverty and wormwood;

Behold, thou trustedst upon the staff of this broken reed, upon Egypt; which, shall a man rest upon it, it was into his hand and pierced it: thus Pharaoh king of Egypt to all trusting upon him.

And the eyes of the unjust shall be consumed, and flight shall perish from them, and their hope a breathing out of the soul.

He being deceived shall not trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his compensation.

And saying, I shall expire with my nest I shall multiply days as the sand.

Saying in his heart, I shall not be moved: to generation and generation for not in evil.

And I said in my security, I shall not be moved forever.

For he made smooth to himself in his eyes, to find his iniquity to hate.

Behold, the man will not set God his strength, and he will trust in the multitude of his riches he will be strengthened in his mischief.

Give to us help from straits, for vain the salvation of man.

Give to us help from straits: and vain the salvation of man.

The wise one feared and departed from evil: and the foolish overflowing, and being confident .

There is a way straight before a man, and its latter state the ways of death.

The rich one's wealth his strong city, and as a wall lifted up in his imagination.

Many are seeking the face of the ruler, and from Jehovah a man's judgment

Ye shall not say, A conspiracy to all whom this people shall say a conspiracy; and ye shall not fear their fear, and ye shall not be afraid.

And the people shall know, all they of Ephraim and the inhabitants of Shomeron, in pride and in greatness of heart, saying,

Because ye said, We cut out a covenant with death, and with hades we did this; when this overflowing scourge passed through it shall not come to us, for we set falsehood our refuge, and in ahewe hid ourselves.,

Wo to sons turning aside, says Jehovah, to make counsel and not from me; and to cover a covering, and not my spirit so as to add sin upon sin:

Who said to the seeing, Ye shall not see, and to the perceiving, Ye shall not perceive for us right things, speak to us smooth things, perceive delusions.

Wo to those going down to Egypt for help; and they will look upon horses, and trust upon chariots, because they are many; and upon horsemen because they were strong greatly; and they looked not upon the Holy One of Israel, and sought not Jehovah.

And thou wilt say, I shall be mistress forever: till thou didst not set these upon thy heart, thou didst not remember its last part

Come ye, I will take wine, and we will drink strong drink to excess; and the morrow being as this day, the remainder great exceedingly.

In thy crying out, shall thy gatherings deliver thee? and the wind shall lift them all up; a breath shall take: and he taking refuge in me shall inherit the land, and he shall inherit my holy mountain;

For my people did two evils: they forsook me the fountain of living waters, to hew out for them wells, broken wells which will not hold water.

Truly in vain from the hills; the multitude of mountains; truly in Jehovah our God the salvation of Israel.

And it ate thy harvest and thy bread, that thy sons and thy daughters shall eat: it shall eat thy sheep and thine oxen: it shall eat thy vine and thy fig-trees: it shall break down thy fortified cities which thou trustedst in them, with the sword.

And they will heal the breaking of the daughter of my people by making light, and saying, Peace, peace; and no peace.

And they will heal the breaking of the daughter of my people by making light of, saying, Peace, peace; and no peace.

If thou didst run with the footmen and they will weary thee, and how wilt thou contend with horses? and in the land of peace thou trustest, and how wilt thou do in the grandeur of Jordan

And saying, Ah, Lord Jehovah! behold, the prophets saying to them, Ye shall not see the sword, and famine shall not be to you; for the peace of truth will I give to you in this place.

Behold me against thee, thou inhabitress of the valley, rock of the plain, says Jehovah; those saying, Who shall come down against us? and who shall come into our habitations?

Saying to say to those despising the word of Jehovah, There shall be peace to you; and every one going in the stubbornness of his heart, they said, Evil shall not come to you.

Wherefore wilt thou boast in the valleys, thy valley flowing away, O daughter turning away? trusting in her treasures, Who shall come to me?

Continuing, yet our eyes will fail, for our help in vain: in our watching we watched for a nation it will not save us.

And he said to me, Sawest, thou son of man, what the old men of the house of Israel are doing in darkness, a man in the chambers of his images? for they are saying, Jehovah sees us not; Jehovah forsook the earth.

Because, and because they led my people astray, saying, Peace; and no peace; and he built a wall and they plastering it with plaster:

And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they were a support of reed to the house of Israel:

And they knew that I am Jehovah in my giving fire in Egypt, and all her helpers were broken.

Strangers consumed his strength, and he knew not: also grayness of hair was sprinkled upon him, and he knew not

Ye ploughed injustice, ye reaped iniquity; ye ate the fruit of falsehood: for thou didst trust in thy way in the multitude of thy strong ones.

Ephraim fed upon the wind, and he pursued the east wind: all the day he multiplied falsehood and destruction; and they will cut out a covenant with Assur, and oil will be brought to Egypt

Assur will not save us; we will not ride upon a horse, and we will no more say, Our God, to the work of our hands, for in thee the orphan shall be compassionated.

Wo! to those living at ease in Zion, and trusting in the mountain of Shomeron, being distinguished the chief of the nations, and to them the house of Israel came.

Rejoicing to no word, saying, Did we not take horns by our strength?

By the sword shall all sinning of my people die, saying, It shall not draw near, and the evil shall not cleave about us.

Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.

And it was in that time, I will search out Jerusalem with lights, and I reviewed upon the men curdled upon their lees, saying in their heart, Jehovah will do good and not evil.

This the exulting city dwelling confidently, saying in her heart, I, and none besides me. How was she for a desolation, a piece of lying down for the beast! all passing by her shall hiss and wave his hand.

And the bridegroom delaying, they all slumbered and slept.

And Peter said to him, And if all shall be offended, yet not I. And Jesus says to him, Truly I say to thee, That to day, in this night, surely before the cock has uttered a sound twice, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he said more excessively, If I should die with thee, I shall not deny thee. And so likewise they all said.

And Peter having answered, said to him, And if all men shall be scandalized in thee, I will never be scandalized. Jesus says to him, Truly I say to thee that in this night, before the cock utters a sound, thou shalt deny me thrice. Peter says to him, Though it should be necessary for me to die with thee, I will not deny thee: likewise also said all the disciples.

And he said to him, Lord, with thee am I ready to go, and to prison, and to death.

Peter says to him, Lord, why can I not follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee.

Take heed therefore lest the light in thee be darkness.

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast many good things laid up for many years; rest, eat, drink, be gladdened.

And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be in the days of the Son of man. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, till the day which Noe came into the ark, and the overflow came, and destroyed all. And likewise as it was in the days of Lot; they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;read more.
And the day which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed all. According to these shall be the day in which the Son of man is revealed.

And he spake to certain trusting upon themselves that they were just, and setting at nought the rest, this parable: Two men went up to the temple to pray; one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee having stood, prayed these to himself, O God, I return thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or also as this publican.read more.
I fast twice of the Sabbath; I pay tithes of all I possess. And the publican, standing afar off, would not either lift up the eyes to heaven, but struck upon his breast, saying, God propitiate for me the sinful. I say to you, this one went down to his house justified rather than that one: for every one lifting up himself shall be humbled; and he humbling himself shall be lifted up.

Think not that I shall accuse you to the Father: he accusing you is Moses, in whom ye have hoped.

And thinkest thou this, O man, judging them doing such things, and doing the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man should sow, that also shall he reap.

For when they say, Peace and security; then sudden ruin is upon them, as anguish in her with child; and they may not escape.

Come on now, ye saying, To day or to morrow let us go to this city, and do there one year, and let us trade, and derive profit: (Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.) For you should say, If the Lord will, and we live, and should do this, or that.

As much as she glorified herself, and led an insolent life, give her so much torture and grief: for in her heart she says, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I should see no grief.