'Confidence' in the Bible

Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.

And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence,

For the king knows about these matters, and I speak to him also with confidence, since I am persuaded that none of these things escape his notice; for this has not been done in a corner.

For our proud confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and godly sincerity, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you.

In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;

This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.

Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.

Great is my confidence in you; great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort; I am overflowing with joy in all our affliction.

I rejoice that in everything I have confidence in you.

We have sent with them our brother, whom we have often tested and found diligent in many things, but now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.

otherwise if any Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we—not to speak of you—will be put to shame by this confidence.

I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I propose to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.

What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt no other view; but the one who is disturbing you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

so that your proud confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus through my coming to you again.

for we are the true circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh,

although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:

We have confidence in the Lord concerning you, that you are doing and will continue to do what we command.

For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a high standing and great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,

Having confidence in your obedience, I write to you, since I know that you will do even more than what I say.

but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.

Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

Therefore, do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.

Now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears, we may have confidence and not shrink away from Him in shame at His coming.

Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.

This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.