70 Bible Verses about Optimism

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.

Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but remains forever.

Show me your ways, LORD. Teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?

For you are my hope, Lord GOD; my confidence from my youth.

I will say of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust."

The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; and he knows those who take refuge in him.

who delivered us out of so great a death, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will also deliver us again; you also helping together on our behalf by your supplication; that, for the gift bestowed on us by means of many, thanks may be given by many persons on our behalf.

The LORD is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell. Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose trust the LORD is.

But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

So that with good courage we say, "The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?"

This is the boldness which we have toward him, that, if we ask anything according to his will, he listens to us.

Now he who made us for this very thing is God, who also gave to us the down payment of the Spirit. Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight.read more.
We are of good courage, I say, and are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be at home with the Lord.

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the Law, and which are written in the Prophets; having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection, both of the just and unjust.

For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

I thank my God whenever I remember you, always in every request of mine on behalf of you all making my requests with joy, for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now;read more.
being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.

In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, the LORD; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for the LORD, the LORD, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation."

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, "We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

Such confidence we have through Christ toward God; not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

in whom we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.

Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good work and word.

Beloved, if our hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence before God; and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

"Do not let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe also in me.

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

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Trust in the LORD, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture. Also delight yourself in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the LORD. Trust also in him, and he will act.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.

Israel, trust in the LORD. He is their help and their shield. House of Aaron, trust in the LORD. He is their help and their shield. You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD. He is their help and their shield.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up. I have overcome the world."

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

For we do not have a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having a great priest over the house of God,read more.
let us draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water, let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ?

Now, little children, remain in him, that when he appears, we may have boldness, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles." The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs it down, but a kind word makes it glad.

The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Because of this I have sent Timothy to you, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who will remind you of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

Our hope for you is steadfast, knowing that, since you are partakers of the sufferings, so also are you of the comfort.

And I wrote this very thing, so that, when I came, I would not have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have many times proved earnest in many things, but now much more earnest, by reason of the great confidence which he has in you.

But you know the proof of him, that, as a child serves a father, so he served with me in furtherance of the Good News.

together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They will make known to you everything that is going on here.

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Do not put your trust in princes, each a son of man in whom there is no help.

And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the lords of Shechem put their trust in him.

Then Samuel said, "Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites." Agag came to him with faltering steps. Agag said, "Surely the bitterness of death is past."

They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed. So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man shall perish,

When a wicked man dies, hope perishes, and expectation of power comes to nothing.

Do not trust in lying words, saying, "The LORD's temple, The LORD's temple, The LORD's temple, are these."

"Take heed everyone of his neighbor, and do not trust in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.

For even your brothers, and the house of your father, even they have dealt treacherously with you; even they have cried aloud after you: do not believe them, though they speak beautiful words to you.

Why do you glory in the valleys, your flowing valley, backsliding daughter? You who trusted in her treasures, saying, "Who shall come to me?"

It shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them: and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD."'"

Therefore, we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

Rejoice always.

Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

"For thus says the LORD, 'After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place. For I know the plans that I have for you,' says the LORD, 'plans for your welfare, and not for calamity, to give you hope and a future.

This is the day that the LORD has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD. His heart is secure, he has no fears; in the end he will look in triumph on his adversaries.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.