100 Bible Verses About Confidence
Bible verses about Confidence
The Bible offers a profound source of confidence, not rooted in ourselves, but in the unwavering character of God. Exploring these verses allows us to tap into a divine wellspring of assurance, replacing fear and doubt with faith and courage. Scripture reveals that our confidence stems from knowing God's promises, experiencing His faithfulness, and understanding our identity as His beloved children. As we meditate on these passages, we discover that true confidence isn't about our abilities, but about resting securely in the strength and love of the Almighty, empowering us to face life's challenges with unwavering hope.
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1 Kings 18:38 (KJV)
Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
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For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine:
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, saying,
And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him.
And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.
And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
and I go and hide it by Phrat, as Jehovah commanded me.
But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Rise thou, and fall upon us: for as the man is, so is his strength. And Gideon arose, and slew Zebah and Zalmunna, and took away the ornaments that were on their camels’ necks.
Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Turn away my reproach which I fear: for thy judgments are good.
And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.
And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.
And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:
Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
And the Lord said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven: but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.
And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.
The pure candlestick, with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light,
And the Lord will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth: his word runneth very swiftly.
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
And the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt: and there shall nothing die of all that is the children’s of Israel.
Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Then I commanded, and they cleansed the chambers: and thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, with the meat offering and the frankincense.
And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!
Behold, God is mine helper: the Lord is with them that uphold my soul.
O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the Lord may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.
Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?
He teacheth my hands to war; so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
And the chief of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
And he took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in a shepherd’s bag which he had, even in a scrip; and his sling was in his hand: and he drew near to the Philistine.
Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
The Lord thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath said.
If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
Thus shall ye say unto them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under these heavens.
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
These are the commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
Even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.
And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the temple, were of gold.
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.
And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.
The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts.
The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.
For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
And the Lord your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the Lord your God hath promised unto you.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
In essence, the Bible verses explored here illuminate the multifaceted nature of true confidence. It’s not about self-reliance or arrogant boasting, but a quiet assurance rooted in faith and trust in God's unwavering love and power. Whether facing adversity, making decisions, or seeking purpose, these verses remind us that we are not alone. God's promises are a constant source of strength, and His presence is our ultimate anchor. By meditating on these passages and integrating them into our daily lives, we can cultivate a resilient confidence that transcends circumstances. May these words inspire you to embrace your God-given potential, knowing that with Him, all things are possible, and true confidence flourishes not in ourselves, but in the unwavering faithfulness of our Creator.