102 Bible Verses about False Confidence

Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.

I do not rely on my bow, and my sword will never save me.

Trust in Jehovah with all your heart. Do not lean on your own understanding.

Stop trusting people, whose breath (life) is in their nostrils. How can they be worth anything?

This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool. He who walks wisely will be delivered.

Why should I be afraid in times of trouble, when slanderers surround me with evil?

He who trusts in his riches will fall. The righteous will flourish as a leaf on a branch.

Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded (arrogant), not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.

I will say to my self: 'You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.' But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

Therefore let no man boast in men. For all things are yours.

A mighty army does not save the king. A warrior is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a false hope for victory. It does not deliver anyone by its great strength.

Then they said: Let us build ourselves a city, with a lofty tower that reaches into space, so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

Blessed is the man who has made Jehovah his security. He has not turned to the proud, or to those who turn aside into falsehood.

I hate those who cling to false gods, but I do trust in Jehovah.

You are trusting in deceptive words that are of no value to you.

Be sure there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him. He would go stubbornly on his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.

The king of Israel responded: It is said, let not the one who puts on his armor boast like the one who takes it off.

Do not exhaust yourself to get rich. Be wise and show restraint.

See a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

You are doomed! You think you are wise. You think you are so very clever.

Be of the same mind as others. Do not think lofty things but be led along by lowly things. Do not be wise in your own conceit (self-love) (vanity) (estimation).

Yes, we have had the sentence of death within ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

Some boast in chariots and others in horses, but we will boast in the name of Jehovah our God.

A horse is a false hope for victory. It does not deliver anyone by its great strength.

They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth.

You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or have regard for him who planned it long ago.

How horrible it will be for those who go to Egypt for help! Cursed are those who rely on very strong warhorses, who depend on many chariots. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel. They do not seek Jehovah. He is wise and can bring about disaster. He does not take back his words. He rises against wicked people and against those who help troublemakers. The Egyptians are humans, not God. Their horses are flesh and blood, not spirit. Jehovah will stretch out his powerful hand (extend his power). The one who gives help will stumble. The one who receives help will fall. Both will die together.

Moab, you trusted in your strength and your wealth, but now even you will be conquered. Your god Chemosh will go into exile, along with his princes and priests.

He answered: This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel. Then Jehovah of Hosts said: 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit.'

The disciples were amazed at his words. Jesus repeated it again: Children, it is hard to enter into the kingdom of God!

A mighty army does not save the king. A warrior is not delivered by great strength.

Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.

It is better to trust in Jehovah than to depend on people.

His spirit (Hebrew: ruach, breath, life) departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish (come to an end).

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent to King Jareb. He is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

Ephraim, you are like a simpleminded, senseless dove. You call to Egypt and run to Assyria for help.

Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from Jehovah our God to serve the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.

When you trust Egypt, you trust a broken stick for a staff. If you lean on it, it stabs your hand and goes through it. This is what Pharaoh king of Egypt is like for everyone who trusts him.

But the eyes of the wicked will fail and they will not escape. Their hope will become a dying gasp.

Let him not deceive himself by trusting what is worthless. He will get nothing in return.

Then I thought: I shall die in my nest (house), and I shall multiply my days like the grains of sand.

He says to himself: Nothing can shake me. I will never face trouble.

Now as for me, I said in my prosperity: I will never be shaken.

He flatters himself and does not hate or even recognize his sin.

Here is the man who did not make God his strength (refuge) (stronghold). He trusted in the abundance of his riches. He strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Give us help against the adversary, for the help of man is vain.

Give us help against the enemy, for man's help is in vain.

A wise man is cautious and departs from evil. But the fool is arrogant and careless.

There is a way that seems right to a man, but the end is the way of death!

The rich man's wealth is his strong city. It is his high wall of vanity.

Many seek favor from the ruler; but every man's judgment comes from Jehovah.

Do not say that everything these people call a conspiracy is a conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear. Do not let it terrify you!

All the people will know it. Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria who say with pride and arrogance of heart:

Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!

Suffer you unwilling children, says Jehovah. You pursue a purpose that is not mine. You make a covenant sacrifice without my Spirit. You add sin to sin.

They say to the seers: Do not see the future. They say to those who have visions: 'Do not have visions that tell us what is right. Tell us what we want to hear. Prophesy illusions.

How horrible it will be for those who go to Egypt for help! Cursed are those who rely on very strong warhorses, who depend on many chariots. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel. They do not seek Jehovah.

You said: 'I will be a queen for a very long time!' You did not consider these things or remember their outcome.

Come, each one cries, let me get wine! Let us drink our fill of beer! And tomorrow will be like today, or even far better.

When you cry out, let your collection of idols deliver you. But the wind will carry them all away. A breath will take them. But he who puts his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

My people have done two things wrong: (l) They have abandoned me, the fountain (source) of living waters. They have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water. (Revelation 4:11)

Truly the sound from the hills and mountains is the noise of false worship. Truly Jehovah our God will be our salvation.

They will devour your harvest and your food. They will devour your sons and your daughters. They will devour your flocks and your herds. They will devour your vines and your fig trees. They will demolish with the sword your fortified cities in which you trust.

Superficially they have healed the brokenness of my people. They declare: 'Peace! Peace!' But there is no peace.'

They heal the brokenness of the daughter of my people superficially. They say: 'Peace! Peace!' But there is no peace.

Jehovah says: Jeremiah, if you get tired racing against people, how can you race against horses? If you cannot even stand up in open country, how will you manage in the thicket by the Jordan?

I said: Alas, O Lord Jehovah, prophets are telling them: 'You will not see wars or famines, for I will give you lasting peace in this place.

I am against you, O valley dweller, O rocky plain,' declares Jehovah. 'You men say: Who will come down against us? Or who will enter into our habitations?

They keep saying to those who despise me, Jehovah says: 'Everything will go well for you.' They tell all who live by their own stubborn ways: 'Nothing bad will happen to you.'

Why do you brag about your valleys, your fertile valleys, you unfaithful people? You trust your treasures. You think: Who would attack me?

Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help. We watch for a nation unable to give salvation.

Then he said: Son of man, do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are committing in the dark, each man in the room of his carved images? For they say: 'Jehovah does not see us! Jehovah has forsaken the land!'

It is definitely because they have misled my people by saying, Peace! When there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall they plaster it over with whitewash.'

Then all the inhabitants of Egypt will know that I am Jehovah. This is because they have been only a staff made of reed to the house of Israel.

Then they will know that I am Jehovah, because I will set fire to Egypt and all her defenders will be killed.

Foreigners are using up your strength, but you do not realize it. You have become a gray-haired, old man, but you do not realize it.

But instead you plowed evil and harvested unrighteousness. You have eaten the fruit produced by your lies. This is because you trusted in your way and in the large number of your soldiers.

The people of Ephraim try to catch the wind and try to chase the east wind all day. They are very dishonest, violent and destructive. They make treaties with Assyria and take olive oil to Egypt.

Assyria will not save us and we will not ride on horses. We will not say again: Our god, to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy.

Those who are at ease in Zion and are secure in the mountain of Samaria will have trouble. You are the notable men of the foremost nations to whom the house of Israel comes!

You who rejoice in Lodebar, you say, 'have we not by our own strength taken Karnaim?'

All the sinners of my people will die by the sword. They say: The evil will not overtake nor meet us.

The leaders judge for a bribe, and the priests teach for wages! The prophets predict for money yet they rely on Jehovah when they say: Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.

At that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish the men that are satisfied with their wayward lifestyle. They say in their heart, 'Jehovah will not do good and he will not do evil.'

This is the joyous city that dwelled in security. She said in her heart, 'I am! There is no one else!' She has become an object of desolation, a place for wild animals to lie down in. Every one who passes by her will hiss, and wag his hand.

They all slept, because the bridegroom delayed his arrival.

Peter declared to him: Even though all shall leave you I will not. Jesus said to Peter: I tell you that before the rooster crows twice tonight, you will say three times that you do not know me. Peter answered even more strongly: I will never say that, even if I have to die with you! All the other disciples said the same thing.

Peter answered: Even if everyone falls away because of you, I will never fall away. Jesus said: I say to you, this very night, before a rooster crows, you will deny me three times. Peter protested: Even if I must die for you, I would not deny you! His disciples said the same thing.

He said: Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.

Peter said: Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.

Make sure the light that is in you is not darkness.

I will say to my self: 'You have many possessions saved for many years. Take it easy and eat, drink and be merry.'

The days of the Son of man will be like the days of Noah. They ate, they drank and they got married until Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came, and destroyed them all. The days of Lot were similar. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted and they built.read more.
But when Lot left Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. It will be similar in the day that the Son of man is revealed.

He then spoke this illustration to some who trusted in themselves. They were very self-righteous. They looked down on others: Two men went to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed like this: God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.read more.
I fast twice per week. I give tithes of all that I get. But the tax collector stood far away and would not lift up so much as his eyes to heaven. He beat his breast, saying: God, be merciful to me a sinner. I tell you the tax collector and not the Pharisee was right with God when he went home. He who exalts himself will be humbled! He who humbles himself will be exalted!

Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Moses on whom you have set your hope is a plaintiff against you.

What do you reason O man? When you judge these things, and you also do them, do you think that you will escape the judgment of God?

Do not be deceived. God is not mocked! A man will harvest what he sows.

When they say, Peace and security! then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They will not escape.

Come now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go to this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and make profit. You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor (puff of air) that appears for a little while and then vanishes away. You should say, If God wills, we should both live, and do this or that.

To the extent she glorified herself and lived sensuously, to that extent give her much torment and sorrow. She says in her heart: 'I sit a queen, and am no widow, and I shall see no sorrow.'