Confidence

For Jehovah is at thy side, And He hath kept thy foot from capture.

Be not afraid, for with thee I <FI>am<Fi> , Look not around, for I <FI>am<Fi> thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.

not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency <FI>is<Fi> of God,

so that we do boldly say, `The Lord <FI>is<Fi> to me a helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.'

because if our heart may condemn--because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward, — read the full passage →

Whoso is trusting in his heart is a fool, And whoso is walking in wisdom is delivered.

fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

Some of chariots, and some of horses, And we of the name of Jehovah our God Make mention.

and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,

Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;' — read the full passage →

In the fear of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> strong confidence, And to His sons there is a refuge.

By David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my light and my salvation, Whom do I fear? Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the strength of my life, Of whom am I afraid? — read the full passage →

Ye may not cast away, then, your boldness, which hath great recompense of reward,

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

but we ourselves in ourselves the sentence of the death have had, that we may not be trusting on ourselves, but on God, who is raising the dead,

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves; — read the full passage →

For thus said the Lord Jehovah, The Holy One of Israel: `In returning and rest ye are saved, In keeping quiet and in confidence is your might, And ye have not been willing.

And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Trust in Him at all times, O people, Pour forth before Him your heart, God <FI>is<Fi> a refuge for us. Selah.

we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace--for seasonable help.

for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, — read the full passage →

having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,

Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow--that also he shall reap,

They--they have bowed and have fallen, And we have risen and station ourselves upright.

Better to take refuge in Jehovah than to trust in man,

Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, to the assembly of 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 →

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

For--with footmen thou hast run, And they weary thee, And how dost thou fret thyself with horses! Even in the land of peace, <FI>In which<Fi> thou art confident--And how dost thou in the rising of Jordan!

Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah. — read the full passage →

A busybody is revealing secret counsel, And the faithful of spirit is covering the matter.

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou <FI>art<Fi> my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters. — read the full passage →

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one--the son of her womb? Yea, these forget--but I--I forget not thee. — read the full passage →

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age <FI>is<Fi> His kindness. — read the full passage →

`Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed--on Egypt--which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it--so <FI>is<Fi> Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.

This <FI>is<Fi> the day Jehovah hath made, We rejoice and are glad in it.

Let him not put credence in vanity, He hath been deceived, For vanity is his recompence.

Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, — read the full passage →

Also from this thou goest out, And thy hands on thy head, For Jehovah hath kicked at thy confidences, And thou dost not give prosperity to them!

The wise is fearing and turning from evil, And a fool is transgressing and is confident.

For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.

The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power.

for the reckoning of God is living, and working, and sharp above every two-edged sword, and piercing unto the dividing asunder both of soul and spirit, of joints also and marrow, and a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart;

Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

A false witness is not acquitted, Whoso breatheth out lies is not delivered.

Not in the might of the horse doth He delight, Not in the legs of a man is He pleased. — read the full passage →

And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

that their hearts may be comforted, being united in love, and to all riches of the full assurance of the understanding, to the full knowledge of the secret of the God and Father, and of the Christ,

our appointed bread be giving us daily;

Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the man who trusteth in Jehovah, And whose confidence hath been Jehovah.

`Bricks have fallen, and hewn work we build, Sycamores have been cut down, and cedars we renew.'

Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways. — read the full passage →

A Psalm of David. Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> my shepherd, I do not lack, — read the full passage →

And the eyes of the wicked are consumed, And refuge hath perished from them, And their hope <FI>is<Fi> a breathing out of soul!

for partakers we have become of the Christ, if the beginning of the confidence unto the end we may hold fast,

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile: — read the full passage →

thus therefore pray ye: `Our Father who <FI>art<Fi> in the heavens! hallowed be Thy name.

Balances of deceit <FI>are<Fi> an abomination to Jehovah, And a perfect weight <FI>is<Fi> His delight. — read the full passage →

and it cometh to pass, when all our enemies have heard, and all the nations who are round about us see, that they fall greatly in their own eyes, and know that by our God hath this work been done.

And Jabez is honoured above his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, `Because I have brought forth with grief.' — read the full passage →

In this made perfect hath been the love with us, that boldness we may have in the day of the judgment, because even as He is, we--we also are in this world;

Having, therefore, brethren, boldness for the entrance into the holy places, in the blood of Jesus, — read the full passage →

and I ask also thee, genuine yoke-fellow, be assisting those women who in the good news did strive along with me, with Clement also, and the others, my fellow-workers, whose names <FI>are<Fi> in the book of life.

him, indeed, therefore, I hope to send, when I may see through the things concerning me--immediately;

in whom we have the freedom and the access in confidence through the faith of him,

because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;

but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.' — read the full passage →

`And I also say to thee, that thou art a rock, and upon this rock I will build my assembly, and gates of Hades shall not prevail against it;

What--dost thou boast thyself in valleys? Flowed hath thy valley, O backsliding daughter, Who is trusting in her treasures: Who doth come in unto me?

How sayest thou, `I have not been defiled, After the Baalim I have not gone?' See thy way in a valley, know what thou hast done, A swift dromedary winding her ways,

Who have said to seers, `Ye do not see,' And to prophets, `Ye do not prophesy to us Straightforward things, Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

Woe <FI>to<Fi> apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.

And a ditch ye made between the two walls, For the waters of the old pool, And ye have not looked unto its Maker, And its Framer of old ye have not seen.

Woe <FI>to<Fi> the wise in their own eyes, And--before their own faces--intelligent!

Give to us help from adversity, And vain is the salvation of man.

For he made <FI>it<Fi> smooth to himself in his eyes, To find his iniquity to be hated.

And I--I have said in mine ease, `I am not moved--to the age.

And at that time hath Hanani the seer come in unto Asa king of Judah, and saith unto him, `Because of thy leaning on the king of Aram, and thou hast not leaned on Jehovah thy God, therefore hath the force of the king of Aram escaped from thy hand. — read the full passage →

By the hand of thy messengers Thou hast reproached the Lord, and sayest: In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains--The sides of Lebanon, And I cut down the height of its cedars, The choice of its firs, And I enter the lodging of its extremity, The forest of its Carmel.

And Jehu gathereth the whole of the people, and saith unto them, `Ahab served Baal a little--Jehu doth serve him much: — read the full passage →

`As much as she did glorify herself and did revel, so much torment and sorrow give to her, because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen, and a widow I am not, and sorrow I shall not see;

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction, — read the full passage →

for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh <FI>day<Fi> thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house,

I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. — read the full passage →

So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,

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

After these things, Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, `Lo, thou hast become whole; sin no more, lest something worse may happen to thee.'

This <FI>is<Fi> the exulting city that is dwelling confidently, That is saying in her heart, `I <FI>am<Fi> , and beside me there is none,' How hath she been for a desolation, A crouching-place for beasts, Every one passing by her doth hiss, He doth shake his hand!