33 Bible Verses about Optimism

So deadly was the peril from which he saved me, as he will save me again! It is on him that I have set my hope that he will save me again. You must help me by your prayers, so that many will give thanks to God on my behalf for the blessing granted me in answer to many prayers.

So that we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?"

And we have confidence in him, that if we ask him for anything that is in accordance with his will, he will listen to us.

It is God himself who has prepared me for this change, and he has given me the Spirit as his guaranty. So I am confident. I know well that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from the Lord (for I have to guide my steps by faith, not by what is seen)??8 yet I am confident, and I prefer to leave my home in the body and make my home with the Lord.

I admit that in worshiping the God of my forefathers I follow the way of life that they call a sect, but I believe everything that is taught in the Law or written in the prophets, and I have the same hope in God that they themselves hold, that there is to be a resurrection of the upright and the wicked.

But we, by the Spirit, through faith wait for the uprightness we hope for.

I never think of you without thanking my God, and always whenever I pray for you all I do it with joy, over your co-operation in the good news from the day you first received it until now.read more.
For I am certain that he who has begun the good work in you will finish it for the Day of Jesus Christ.

Such is the confidence that I have through Christ in my relations to God. Not that I am of myself qualified to claim anything as originating with me. My qualification is from God,

Through union with him and through faith in him, we have courage to approach God with confidence.

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and kindly given us unfailing encouragement and a well-founded hope, encourage you and strengthen you to do and say everything that is right.

Dear friends, if our consciences do not condemn us, we approach God with confidence, and we obtain from him whatever we ask for, because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.

"Your minds must not be troubled; you must believe in God, and believe in me.

May God, the source of hope, fill you with perfect happiness and peace in your faith, so that you may have overflowing hope through the power of the holy Spirit.

I leave you a blessing; I give you my own blessing. I do not give it to you as the world gives. Your minds must not be troubled or afraid.

I have told you all this, so that through me you may find peace. In the world you have trouble; but take courage! I have conquered the world."

Be happy in your hope, steadfast in time of trouble, persistent in prayer.

Charge the rich of this world not to be arrogant, nor to set their hopes on such an uncertain thing as riches, but on God who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.

For our high priest is not one who is incapable of sympathy with our weaknesses, but he has been tempted in every way just as we have, without committing any sin.

Since then, brothers, we have free access to the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus, by the new, living way which he has opened for us, through the curtain, that is, his physical nature, and since in him we have a great priest set over the house of God,read more.
let us draw near to God in sincerity of heart and with perfect faith, with our hearts cleansed from the sense of sin, and our bodies washed with clean water. Let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we profess, for he who has given us his promise may be trusted.

Therefore, prepare your minds for action, and with perfect calmness fix your hopes on the mercy that you are to experience when Jesus Christ is revealed.

Now, dear children, keep in union with him, so that if he appears, we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame when he comes.

And God, the giver of all mercy, who through your union with Christ has called you to his eternal glory, after you have suffered a little while will himself make you perfect, steadfast, and strong.

I have the greatest confidence in you. I take the greatest pride in you. I am fully comforted. After all my trouble, I am overjoyed.

and at the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ he will insure your complete vindication. God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

This is why I have sent Timothy to you. He is a dear child of mine, in the service of the Lord, and one on whom you can depend, and he will help you to keep in mind my methods in the service of Christ Jesus, which I follow everywhere in every church.

My hopes for you are unshaken. For I know that just as surely as you share my sufferings, just so surely you will share my comfort.

This is what I said in my letter, so that I might avoid coming and having my feelings hurt by the very people who might have been expected to make me happy, for I felt sure about you all, that what made me happy would make you all happy.

I send with them another brother of ours whose devotion we have often tested in many ways, which is now greater than ever, because of his perfect confidence in you.

But you know his character, and how like a son helping his father he has worked like a slave with me in preaching the good news.

And with him I send my dear, faithful brother Onesimus, who is one of your own number. They will tell you all about matters here.

This is why I am suffering as I am, but I am not ashamed of it, for I know whom I have trusted and I am sure that he is able to guard what I have intrusted to him for that Day.

So I am confident. I know well that as long as I am at home in the body I am away from the Lord

Always be joyful.