Over Confident

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

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

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.

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.

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

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

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

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.

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

For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;

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

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war should rise against me, even then I will be confident.

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

My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. — read the full passage →

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.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

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

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.

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

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

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.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

But each one is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!” — read the full passage →

Therefore let him who thinks he stands be careful that he doesn’t fall.

Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and had perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled. They recognized that they had been with Jesus.

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

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

Because it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer on his behalf,

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

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.

For everything spoken by God is possible.”

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you.

For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. — read the full passage →

I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed in you.”

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

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

This is how we know that we know him: if we keep his commandments.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

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

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

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession. — read the full passage →

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

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;

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

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

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

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

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

For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

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.”

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Let your beauty be not just the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on fine clothing; — read the full passage →

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Or don’t you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — 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.

Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

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

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

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

I will give thanks to you, for you have answered me, and have become my salvation.

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man. — read the full passage →

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

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

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

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

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

He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

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.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:

because it is written, “You shall be holy; for I am holy.”

but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

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

Neither present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

I have other sheep, which are not of this fold.I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.