Confidence

for Yahweh will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God;

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

because if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and knows all things. — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens 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.

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward. — read the full passage →

One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we trust the name of Yahweh our God.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” — read the full passage →

In the fear of Yahweh is a secure fortress, and he will be a refuge for his children.

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

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 the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead,

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. — read the full passage →

For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, “You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence.” You refused,

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

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us. Selah.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

They are bowed down and fallen, but we rise up, and stand upright.

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? and though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

Blessed is the man who trusts in Yahweh, and whose trust Yahweh is. — read the full passage →

One who brings gossip betrays a confidence, but one who is of a trustworthy spirit is one who keeps a secret.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water. — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! — read the full passage →

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →

Behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt, which if a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

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

Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; for emptiness shall be his reward.

Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God; — read the full passage →

From there also you shall go out, with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you shall not prosper with them.

A wise man fears, and shuns evil, but the fool is hot headed and reckless.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

There is no king saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

He doesn’t delight in the strength of the horse. He takes no pleasure in the legs of a man. — read the full passage →

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

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

Give us day by day our daily bread.

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

“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.”

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don’t set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don’t be wise in your own conceits.

He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others. — read the full passage →

Pray like this: ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight. — read the full passage →

When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was worked of our God.

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him with sorrow.” — read the full passage →

In this love has been made perfect among us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because as he is, even so are we in this world.

Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

Yes, I beg you also, true partner, help these women, for they labored with me in the Good News, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Therefore I hope to send him at once, as soon as I see how it will go with me.

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

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his works may be revealed, that they have been done in God.” — read the full passage →

I also tell you that you are Peter,and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hadeswill not prevail against it.

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

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled. I have not gone after the Baals’? See your way in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and to the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.

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

Give us help against the enemy, for the help of man is vain.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to detect and hate his sin.

As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”

At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Syria, and have not relied on Yahweh your God, therefore is the army of the king of Syria escaped out of your hand. — read the full passage →

By your messengers you have defied the 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 its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

Jehu gathered all the people together, and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much. — read the full passage →

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, ‘I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;

who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. — read the full passage →

Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours,

I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. — read the full passage →

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “Behold, you are made well. Sin no more, so that nothing worse happens to you.”

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.