How do you have the confidence to obey God, the confidence to keep going when things get tough, the confidence that your God is the true and living God when someone comes along and questions your beliefs?
How do you even have confidence without becoming prideful?
Let’s take a look at Scripture today in these 30 Bible verses about confidence and see what the Bible says about confidence and where it comes from (hint: it comes from God and NOT man!)
30 Bible Verses About Confidence
1) Psalm 27:3
“Though an army encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war arise against me, yet I will be confident.”
2) Ephesians 3:12
“In whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith in him.”
3) Joshua 1:9
“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.”
4) Psalm 27:1
“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?”
5) Hebrews 4:16
“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.”
6) Proverbs 3:31-32
” Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways, for the devious person is an abomination to the Lord, but the upright are in his confidence.”
7) 1 John 5:14
“And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.”
8) Hebrews 13:6
So we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?”
9) 2 Chronicles 32:8
“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.”
10) Isaiah 32:17
“And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.”
11) Hebrews 10:35-36
“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.”
12) Proverbs 3:25-26
“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.”
13) 2 Timothy 1:7
“For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.”
14) 1 John 3:20-22
“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; and whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him.”
15) Philippians 1:6
“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.”
16) 1 John 4:17
“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.”
17) 2 Timothy 1:12
“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.”
18) 2 Corinthians 3:4-5
“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,”
19) Jeremiah 17:7-8
“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.”
20) Philippians 4:13
“I can do all things through him who strengthens me.”
21) Romans 15:13
“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.”
22) Psalm 112:7
“He is not afraid of bad news; his heart is firm, trusting in the Lord.”
23) Proverbs 14:26
“In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.”
24) 1 Corinthians 2:3-5
“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, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.”
25) Psalm 20:7
“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.”
26) Galatians 5:10
“I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is.”
27) 2 Thessalonians 3:4-5
“And we have confidence in the Lord about you, that you are doing and will do the things that we command. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.”
28) 1 John 2:28
“And now, little children, abide in him, so that when he appears we may have confidence and not shrink from him in shame at his coming.”
29) Hebrews 10:19-22
“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.”
30) Proverbs 3:5-6
“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.”