Confidence
111 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
Asa
- 2 Chronicles 16:7–9 At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand. …
Betrayed: Abner, by Joab
- 2 Samuel 3:27 When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.
Betrayed: Ahimelech, by David
- 1 Samuel 21:1–9 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?” …
Betrayed: Amasa, by Joab
- 2 Samuel 20:9–10 “Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him. …
Betrayed: Eglon, by Ehud
- Judges 3:15–23 And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab. …
Betrayed: Joshua, by the Gibeonites
- Joshua 9:3–15 But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, …
Betrayed: The Worshipers of Baal, by Jehu
- 2 Kings 10:18–28 Then Jehu brought all the people together and said, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot. …
Builders of Babel
- Genesis 11:4 “Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
False
- Deuteronomy 29:18–19 Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit, …
- 1 Kings 20:11 And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”
- 2 Kings 18:21 Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
- Isaiah 36:6 Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
- Job 11:20 But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; they will hope for their last breath.”
- Job 15:31 Let him not deceive himself with trust in emptiness, for emptiness will be his reward.
- Job 29:18 So I thought: ‘I will die in my nest and multiply my days as the sand.
- Psalm 10:6 He says to himself, “I will not be moved; from age to age I am free of distress.”
- Psalm 20:7–8 Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. …
- Psalm 30:6 In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
- Psalm 33:16–17 No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength. …
- Psalm 36:2 For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.
- Psalm 44:6 For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
- Psalm 49:6–7 They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches. …
- Psalm 52:7 “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
- Psalm 60:11 Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
- Psalm 108:12 Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
- Proverbs 14:16 A wise man fears and turns from evil, but a fool is careless and reckless.
- Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
- Proverbs 18:11 A rich man’s wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.
- Proverbs 23:4 Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.
- Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Proverbs 28:26 He who trusts in himself is a fool, but one who walks in wisdom will be safe.
- Proverbs 29:26 Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.
- Isaiah 2:22 Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?
- Isaiah 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
- Isaiah 8:12 “Do not call conspiracy everything these people regard as conspiracy. Do not fear what they fear; do not live in dread.
- Isaiah 9:9–10 All the people will know it — Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say: …
- Isaiah 20:5 Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.
- Isaiah 22:11 You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
- Isaiah 28:15 For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- Isaiah 28:18 Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.
- Isaiah 30:1–2 “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. …
- Isaiah 30:5 everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”
- Isaiah 30:7 Egypt’s help is futile and empty; therefore I have called her Rahab Who Sits Still.
- Isaiah 30:10 They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
- Isaiah 30:15–16 For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence — but you were not willing.” …
- Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
- Isaiah 31:3 But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
- Isaiah 47:7–8 You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome. …
- Isaiah 47:10 You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’
- Isaiah 56:12 “Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
- Isaiah 57:13 When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”
- Jeremiah 2:13 “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns — broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Jeremiah 2:18 Now what will you gain on your way to Egypt to drink the waters of the Nile? What will you gain on your way to Assyria to drink the waters of the Euphrates?
- Jeremiah 2:22–23 Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD. …
- Jeremiah 2:37 Moreover, you will leave that place with your hands on your head, for the LORD has rejected those you trust; you will not prosper by their help.”
- Jeremiah 3:23 Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.
- Jeremiah 5:17 They will devour your harvest and food; they will consume your sons and daughters; they will eat up your flocks and herds; they will feed on your vines and fig trees. With the sword they will destroy the fortified cities in which …
- Jeremiah 6:14 They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- Jeremiah 7:8 But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.
- Jeremiah 8:11 They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- Jeremiah 12:5 “If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
- Jeremiah 14:13 “Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
- Jeremiah 17:5 This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
- Jeremiah 21:13 Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau — declares the LORD — you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
- Jeremiah 23:17 They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
- Jeremiah 48:7 Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.
- Jeremiah 48:11 Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged.
- Jeremiah 49:4–5 Why do you boast of your valleys— your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’ …
- Lamentations 4:17 All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.
- Ezekiel 8:12 “Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are saying, ‘The LORD does not see us; the LORD has forsaken the land.’”
- Ezekiel 13:10–11 Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built, …
- Ezekiel 29:6–7 Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel. …
- Ezekiel 30:8 Then they will know that I am the LORD when I set fire to Egypt and all her helpers are shattered.
- Hosea 5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
- Hosea 7:9–16 Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know. …
- Hosea 10:13 You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,
- Hosea 12:1 Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; he multiplies lies and violence; he makes a covenant with Assyria and sends olive oil to Egypt.
- Hosea 14:3 Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”
- Amos 6:1–7 Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes. …
- Amos 6:13 you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’
- Amos 9:10 All the sinners among My people will die by the sword — all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”
- Obadiah 3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Micah 3:11 Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
- Zephaniah 1:12 And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
- Zephaniah 2:15 This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- Zechariah 4:6 So he said to me, “This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the LORD of Hosts.
- Matthew 25:5 When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
- Matthew 26:33–35 Peter said to Him, “Even if all fall away on account of You, I never will.” …
- Mark 10:24 And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
- Mark 14:29–31 Peter declared, “Even if all fall away, I never will.” …
- Luke 11:35 Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness.
- Luke 12:19–20 Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’ …
- Luke 17:26–30 Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man: …
- Luke 18:9–14 To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable: …
- Luke 22:33–34 “Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.” …
- John 5:45 Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, in whom you have put your hope.
- John 13:37–38 “Lord,” said Peter, “why can’t I follow You now? I will lay down my life for You.” …
- Romans 2:3 So when you, O man, pass judgment on others, yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment?
- Romans 12:16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but associate with the lowly. Do not be conceited.
- 1 Corinthians 3:21 Therefore, stop boasting in men. All things are yours,
- 2 Corinthians 1:9 Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead.
- Galatians 6:7–8 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. …
- 1 Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
- 1 Timothy 6:17 Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
- James 4:13–15 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” …
- Revelation 18:7–8 As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ …
Hezekiah
- Isaiah 22:11 You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
Jonah
- Jonah 1:3–5 Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard to sail for Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. …
Paul
- Philippians 1:25 Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and will continue with all of you for your progress and joy in the faith,
- Philippians 2:23–24 So I hope to send him as soon as I see what happens with me. …
Peter
- Matthew 26:33–35 Peter said to Him, “Even if all fall away on account of You, I never will.” …
- Luke 22:33–34 “Lord,” said Peter, “I am ready to go with You even to prison and to death.” …
Saul
- 1 Samuel 13:8–14 And Saul waited seven days for the time appointed by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the troops began to desert Saul. …
Sennacherib
- 2 Kings 19:23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its …
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.