Self-Confidence

Self Confidence

 

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 1,884 helpful votes

 

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 1,579 helpful votes

 

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

Hebrews 10:35-36 ESV / 1,353 helpful votes

 

Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised.

Hebrews 13:6 ESV / 1,250 helpful votes

 

So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”

Joshua 1:9 ESV / 1,045 helpful votes

 

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Psalm 139:13-14 ESV / 767 helpful votes

 

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Psalm 27:3 ESV / 642 helpful votes

 

Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.

Proverbs 3:6 ESV / 517 helpful votes

 

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

1 John 4:18 ESV / 508 helpful votes

 

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 508 helpful votes

 

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.

Psalm 138:8 ESV / 432 helpful votes

 

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Philippians 1:6 ESV / 430 helpful votes

 

And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.

Philippians 4:4-7 ESV / 420 helpful votes

 

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 386 helpful votes

 

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Hebrews 4:16 ESV / 355 helpful votes

 

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

Matthew 6:34 ESV / 348 helpful votes

 

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 345 helpful votes

 

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Proverbs 3:26 ESV / 343 helpful votes

 

For the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 323 helpful votes

 

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

1 Corinthians 2:3-5 ESV / 268 helpful votes

 

And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 201 helpful votes

 

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

Luke 14:8-11 ESV / 201 helpful votes

 

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

James 1:12 ESV / 199 helpful votes

 

Blessed is the man who remains steadfast under trial, for when he has stood the test he will receive the crown of life, which God has promised to those who love him.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 188 helpful votes

 

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 174 helpful votes

 

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Proverbs 29:25 ESV / 163 helpful votes

 

The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

Proverbs 3:1-26:28 ESV / 156 helpful votes

 

My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. ...

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 151 helpful votes

 

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 141 helpful votes

 

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Hebrews 10:35 ESV / 134 helpful votes

 

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

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 130 helpful votes

 

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 125 helpful votes

 

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Luke 6:31 ESV / 122 helpful votes

 

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.

Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV / 118 helpful votes

 

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Romans 12:3 ESV / 113 helpful votes

 

For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.

John 3:16 ESV / 112 helpful votes

 

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

2 Timothy 2:1 ESV / 109 helpful votes

 

You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,

Philippians 3:3 ESV / 109 helpful votes

 

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—

1 John 5:14 ESV / 104 helpful votes

 

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.

Acts 1:8 ESV / 104 helpful votes

 

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

Psalm 139:14 ESV / 101 helpful votes

 

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.

Psalm 20:7 ESV / 98 helpful votes

 

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

2 Peter 1:3 ESV / 95 helpful votes

 

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

2 Timothy 1:12 ESV / 94 helpful votes

 

Which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

Philippians 2:14 ESV / 92 helpful votes

 

Do all things without grumbling or questioning,

1 Peter 3:10 ESV / 91 helpful votes

 

For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 88 helpful votes

 

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

Psalm 27:1-2 ESV / 87 helpful votes

 

Of David. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.

Romans 8:1-39 ESV / 85 helpful votes

 

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. ...

1 John 5:14-15 ESV / 83 helpful votes

 

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 83 helpful votes

 

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Psalm 42:5 ESV / 83 helpful votes

 

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation

Jeremiah 17:7 ESV / 79 helpful votes

 

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.

Proverbs 14:26 ESV / 79 helpful votes

 

In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.

Romans 8:30 ESV / 77 helpful votes

 

And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Romans 8:32 ESV / 69 helpful votes

 

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Nehemiah 6:16 ESV / 69 helpful votes

 

And when all our enemies heard of it, all the nations around us were afraid and fell greatly in their own esteem, for they perceived that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

Ephesians 3:12 ESV / 64 helpful votes

 

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

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 64 helpful votes

 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 63 helpful votes

 

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 63 helpful votes

 

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Matthew 19:26 ESV / 62 helpful votes

 

But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

John 13:34-35 ESV / 60 helpful votes

 

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Isaiah 32:17 ESV / 58 helpful votes

 

And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.

Galatians 5:10 ESV / 56 helpful votes

 

I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view than mine, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.

Proverbs 28:1 ESV / 54 helpful votes

 

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

Psalm 118:6 ESV / 54 helpful votes

 

The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me?

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 53 helpful votes

 

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 51 helpful votes

 

Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Habakkuk 3:17-19 ESV / 51 helpful votes

 

Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.

Psalm 50:15 ESV / 51 helpful votes

 

And call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”

1 Peter 3:9 ESV / 50 helpful votes

 

Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 50 helpful votes

 

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 47 helpful votes

 

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Deuteronomy 32:10 ESV / 47 helpful votes

 

“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 45 helpful votes

 

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Proverbs 3:24-26 ESV / 44 helpful votes

 

If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet. Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

2 Corinthians 3:4-6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

 

Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

John 15:26 ESV / 41 helpful votes

 

“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 41 helpful votes

 

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

2 Chronicles 32:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes

 

With him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles.” And the people took confidence from the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

1 John 4:4 ESV / 39 helpful votes

 

Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

Psalm 46:1-11 ESV / 39 helpful votes

 

To the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. ...

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 38 helpful votes

 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 4:17 ESV / 38 helpful votes

 

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

1 Corinthians 15:58 ESV / 38 helpful votes

 

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Ephesians 1:18-23 ESV / 37 helpful votes

 

Having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, ...

Psalm 139:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes

 

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 37 helpful votes

 

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 36 helpful votes

 

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Hebrews 11:1 ESV / 34 helpful votes

 

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

Proverbs 3:25-26 ESV / 34 helpful votes

 

Do not be afraid of sudden terror or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 34 helpful votes

 

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

Mark 9:23 ESV / 33 helpful votes

 

And Jesus said to him, “‘If you can’! All things are possible for one who believes.”

Matthew 9:29 ESV / 29 helpful votes

 

Then he touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith be it done to you.”

John 3:16-17 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 56:3 ESV / 28 helpful votes

 

When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.

1 John 3:20-21 ESV / 27 helpful votes

 

For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Luke 5:13 ESV / 26 helpful votes

 

And Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately the leprosy left him.