32 Bible Verses about Optimism

He delivered me from such a death, and will deliver me. On him I have set my hopes that he will continue to deliver me, while all of you also are helping me by your prayers; so that from many lips thanksgiving may rise on my behalf for the blessings vouchsafed to me through the intercessions of many.

So that we can say with confidence, The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?

Now the confidence which we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will.

And He who has wrought me out for this very end is God, who has given me his Spirit as pledge. Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord, for I am walking by faith, not by sight.read more.
So I have good courage, and am well pleased rather, to be in banishment from the body and to be at home with the Lord.

"But this I confess to you, that I worship the God of our ancestors, according to the Way which they call a heresy, believing everything that is according to the Law, or is written in the Prophets, "and having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there is to be a resurrection both of the just and the unjust.

But we are not, for we through the Spirit are eagerly waiting by faith for a hope of righteousness (a hope well founded);

Upon every remembrance of you I am ever thanking my God for you all; in every petition of mine in your behalf I am offering my prayer with joy for your fellowship in forwarding the gospel, from the first day you heard it until now.read more.
Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Such confidence I have through Christ before God. Not that I am sufficient in myself to reach any conclusion in my own wisdom; but my sufficiency is from God.

In him we have this fearless confidence and boldness of access through our faith in him.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and a good hope in grace, comfort your hearts, and establish you in every good work and word.

Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have confidence toward God, and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight.

"Let not your hearts be troubled. You trust in God, trust in me also.

Now the God of all hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may be overflowing with hope in the power of the Holy Spirit.

"Peace I leave with you. My own peace I give to you. It is not the world's 'Peace' I give you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

I have said all this to you that in me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be courageous; I have overcome the world."

Rejoice in hope; be patient under affliction; continue stedfast in prayer.

Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, nor to trust in uncertain riches, but in God, who provides all things richly for our use.

Since, then, we have a cheerful confidence, brothers, to enter into the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, by the way which he dedicated for us, that new and living way, through the veil (that is, his flesh); and since we have a great High Priest over the house of God;read more.
let us draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, our hearts sprinkled from and evil conscience, and our bodies bathed in pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, unwavering (for He is faithful who promised);

So then brace up your minds, be steady in spirit, and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you, at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

And now continue to abide in him, my children, so that when he shall appear we may have cheerful confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

But the God of all grace, who has called us by Christ Jesus to share his eternal glory, will, after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.

Great is my faith in you; great is my cheerful assurance in you. I am filled with comfort; in spite of all my troubles, my heart is overflowing with joy.

He will also keep you perfectly stedfast unto the end, so that you will be unreproveable in the Day of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is the God by whom you were called into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

With this in mind I have sent Timothy to you. He is my dear and faithful son in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways in Christ; the manner in which I ever teach everywhere in every church.

My hope for you is firm; for I know that as you are comrades in my sufferings, so also are you comrades in my comfort.

And for this very reason I wrote you, that I might not come only to be grieved by those who ought to give me joy; and because I trusted in you all, that my joy is the joy of all of you.

With them I am sending our brother of whose zeal I have often had proof in many ways, and who is now zealous because of his great confidence in you.

And you know Timothy's worth, how he has shared my servitude in furtherance of the gospel, like a son helping his father.

They will inform you of all that goes on here.

But I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have fully believed, and I am thoroughly persuaded that he is able to keep what I have given him until the Day.

Therefore I am always of good courage, because I well know that while I am at home in the body, I am in banishment from the Lord,

Always be joyful.