69 Bible Verses about Self Confidence

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we are at agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through it shall not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hid ourselves unde

But having answered, Peter said to him, If all men will be caused to stumble by thee, I will never be caused to stumble. Jesus said to him, Truly I say to thee, that in this night, before a cock sounds, thou will deny me thrice. Peter says to him, Even if I must die with thee, I will, no, not deny thee. And likewise also, said all the disciples.

But Peter said to him, Even if all will be caused to stumble, yet not I. And Jesus says to him, Truly I say to thee, that thou today, in this night, before a cock sounds twice, will deny me thrice. But he spoke more extreme, If I must die with thee, I will, no, not deny thee. And they all spoke the same way also.

And when they came to the place called Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one at the right hand and the other at the left. And Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing. And dividing his garments, they cast a lot.

Peter said to him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee. Jesus answered him, Will thou lay down thy life for me? Truly, truly, I say to thee, A cock will, no, not sound, until thou will deny me thrice.

And he said to him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee both to prison and to death. And he said, I say to thee, Peter, a cock will, no, not sound today, before thou will thrice deny that thou know me.

And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free, but he knew not that LORD was departed from him.

And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him who girds on [his armor] boast himself as he who puts it off.

By thy messengers thou have defied LORD, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon. And I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice f I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

So are the paths of all who forget God. And the hope of the profane man shall perish, whose confidence shall break apart, and whose trust is a spider's web.

Why should I fear in the days of evil, when iniquity at my heels encompasses me about? Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,

Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.

And Ephraim said, Surely I have become rich. I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors they shall find no iniquity in me that is sin.

And all the people shall know, [even] Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart, The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stone, the sycamores are cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.

And they said, Come, let us build a city for us, and a tower, and its top in the heavens. And let us make a name for us, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him yet the more.

The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall be satisfied upon them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against LORD his God. For he went into the temple of LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Pride [is] before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud, even of his arrogance, and his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says lord LORD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou have said, I am a god. I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet thou are man, and not God, though thou did set thy h

But a certain man in the city, Simon by name, was formerly practicing sorcery, and fascinating the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be some great man,

And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. But if thou boast, thou do not bear the root, but the root thee.

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

Because everything in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the arrogance of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard [of it], that all the nations that were around us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes, for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

Even a man in splendor does not abide. He is like the beasts that perish. This their way is their folly. Yet after them men approve their sayings. Selah.

Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes. Fear LORD, and depart from evil.

He who trusts in his riches shall fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who walks wisely, he shall be delivered.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

And thou said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the outermost parts of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High. Yet thou shall be brought down to Sheol, to the utmost parts of the pit.

Of Edom. Thus says LORD of hosts: Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?

Go now, men who say, Today and tomorrow we will go into this city, and will operate one year there, and will engage in trade and will get gain-- men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away-- in place of your saying, If the Lord should will, then we will live and do this or that.read more.
But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

And he also spoke this parable to some of those who were persuaded in themselves that they were righteous, and disdained other men. Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector. Having stood by himself, the Pharisee prayed these things: God, I thank thee that I am not as the rest of men, predatory, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector.read more.
I fast twice per Sabbath. I tithe all things, as many as I acquire. But the tax collector, having stood from afar, would not even lift his eyes to the sky, but beat upon his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinful man. I say to you, this man went down to his house justified rather than that man. Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.

Although (I having confidence also in flesh) if any other man seems to be confident in the flesh, I more: in circumcision the eighth day, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; regarding law, a Pharisee; regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness in law, having become blameless.

I am indeed a Jewish man, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but reared in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, reared accurately in the paternal law, being a zealot of God, as ye all are today.

I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in body, I know not, or whether outside the body, I know not, God knows) such a man was caught up as far as the third heaven.

And I persecuted this Way as far as death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. As also the high priest testifies about me, and all the senior council, from whom also having received letters to the brothers in Damascus, I was going to bring bound even those who were there to Jerusalem so that they might be pun And there happened to me, while going and approaching Damascus about noon, suddenly to flash forth from heaven a great light around me.read more.
And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why do thou persecute me? And I answered, Who are thou, Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus the Nazarene, whom thou persecute. And those who were with me indeed saw the light and became afraid, but they heard not the voice of him who spoke to me. And I said, What shall I do, Lord? And the Lord said to me, After rising, go into Damascus, and there it will be told thee about all things that have been assigned for thee to do. And as I was not seeing from the splendor of that light, I came into Damascus, being led by hand by those who accompanied me. And a certain Ananias, a devout man according to the law, having a good report by all the Jews who dwell there, having come near me, and having stood by, he said to me, Brother Saul, look up. And I looked up on him the same hour. And he said, The God of our fathers appointed thee to know his will, and to see the Righteous man, and to hear a voice from his mouth, because thou will be a witness for him to all men of the things that thou have seen and heard. And now what is it going to be? Having arisen, immerse and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. And it came to pass, my having returned to Jerusalem and while I prayed in the temple, for me to became in a trance. And I saw him saying to me, Hurry and depart in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not accept thy testimony about me. And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and beating in every synagogue those who believe in thee. And when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I myself also was standing by, and approving his killing, and keeping the garments of those who killed him. And he said to me, Depart, because I will send thee far away to Gentiles.

(Really, to me boasting is not helpful.) For I will come to visions and revelations of Lord.

Examine yourselves whether ye are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or know ye not yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless ye are test-failing something. But I hope that ye will know that we are not test-failing.

For ye heard of my former behavior in Judaism, that I persecuted the church of God to extraordinariness, and ravaged it. And I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my race, being a more extreme zealot of my paternal traditions. But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's belly, and called me through his grace,read more.
to reveal his Son in me, so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, I did not straightaway confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to the apostles before me, but I went into Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have the boast in himself alone and not in the other man.

For even if I also should boast somewhat more abundantly about our authority (which the Lord gave us for building up, and not for tearing you down), I will not be shamed,

But we will not boast in things immeasurable, but according to the measure of the standard that God apportioned to us, of a measure to reach even as far as you. For it is not as not reaching for you. We overextend ourselves. For we even reached as far as you in the good-news of the Christ, not boasting in things immeasurable, in other men's labors, but having hope of your faith growing in you to be enlarged according to our measure for abundance,read more.
in order to preach the good-news beyond you, not to boast in another measure, in things prepared. But he who boasts should boast in Lord.

but to the contrary, when they saw that I was entrusted with the good-news for men of uncircumcision, as Peter for men of circumcision

serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears and trials that befell me by the conspiracies of the Jews.

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to over think beyond what he ought to think, but to think so as to think soundly, as God has apportioned to each man a measure of faith.

And when they came to him, he said to them, Ye know, from the first day in which I stepped in Asia, how I became with you all the time,

But I have used none of these things, and I did not write these things so that it should be done to me this way. For it is good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my boasting empty. For if I preach the good-news, it is not a source of pride for me, for an obligation is laid upon me. And woe is to me if I do not preach the good-news. For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if involuntarily, I have been entrusted with a commission.read more.
What then is my reward? That, while preaching the good-news, I may make the good-news of the Christ without charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the good-news.

For our pride is this (the testimony from our conscience), that we behave in the world in the simplicity and purity of God, not by fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, and especially toward you.

Holding firm the word of life, for a boast by me in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.

For ye yourselves know, brothers, our entrance with you, that it has not become empty. But having suffered before and been mistreated in Philippi, as ye know, we were bold in our God to speak to you the good-news of God within much conflict. For our exhortation is not from error, nor from uncleanness, nor in deception,read more.
but as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the good-news, thus we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who proves our hearts. For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness) nor seeking glory from men, neither from you nor from others. While able to bear down as apostles of Christ, nevertheless we became gentle in the midst of you, as a nurse cherishes her own children. Thus being desirous of you, we were pleased to impart to you, not only the good-news of God, but also our own souls, because ye have become beloved to us. For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God. Ye are witnesses, and God, how piously and justly and blamelessly we became to you who believe, just as ye know, as each one of you as a father of his own children, imploring you, and comforting, and solemnly declaring for you to walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I am not made fiery? If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.

I speak as from shame, that we were so weak. Yet in whatever any man may be bold in foolishness, I say I too am bold. Are they Hebrews? I too. Are they Israelites? I too. Are they a seed of Abraham? I too. Are they helpers of Christ? (I speak as being mad) I more: in toils, more abundantly; in stripes, countless; in prisons, more frequently; in deaths often.read more.
From the Jews five times I received forty save one. Thrice I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I was shipwrecked, I have done a night and a day in the depth, in frequent journeys, in perils of flowing waters, in perils of bandits, in perils from my race, in perils from Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils at sea, in perils among FALSE brothers, in toil and hardship, in frequent sleeplessness, in hunger and thirst, in frequent fasts, in cold and nakedness. Besides the external things, crowding upon me daily is the care of all the congregations.

And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my power is made fully perfect in weakness. More gladly therefore I will boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of the Christ may reside in me.

What I speak, I speak not according to Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of the boast. Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast.

He says to them, But who say ye, I am? And Simon Peter having answered, said, Thou are the Christ, the Son of the living God. And having answered, Jesus said to him, Blessed are thou, Simon Bar-jonah, because flesh and blood has not revealed it to thee, but my Father in the heavens.

And he says to them, But who do ye say that I am? And having answered, Peter says to him, Thou are the Christ.

And he said to them, But ye, who say ye that I am? And having answered, Peter said, The Christ of God. But having chided them, he commanded to tell this to no man,

And the high priest having stood up, he said to him, Answer thou nothing? What do these testify against thee? But Jesus was silent. And having responded, the high priest said to him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us if thou are the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus says to him, Thou have said. Nevertheless I say to you, Henceforth ye will see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming in the clouds of the sky.

Ye call me, Teacher, and, Lord. And ye say well, for I am.

Thus says LORD: Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man glory in his might. Let not the rich man glory in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am LORD who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness, in the earth. For in these things I delight, says LORD.

My soul shall make her boast in LORD. The humble shall hear of it, and be glad.

For I will not trust in my bow, nor shall my sword save me. But thou have saved us from our adversaries, and have put them to shame who hate us.

Shall the axe boast itself against him who hews with it? Shall the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield those who lift it up, [or] as if a staff should lift up [him who is] not wood.

But God chose the foolish things of the world, so that he might humiliate the wise, and God chose the weak things of the world, so that he might humiliate the powerful. And God chose the common things of the world, and the disdained things, and the things that are not, so that he might make useless the things that are, so that no flesh may boast before God.read more.
But ye are his, in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, so that, just as it is written, He who boasts, let him boast in Lord.