The word in Scripture

Confidence in the Bible

The word confidence appears 38 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Confidence is settled assurance in God and His promises. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What confidence means in the Bible

Confidence is settled assurance in God and His promises.

Where the word confidence appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word confidence appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:”Psalms 65:5

“It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.”Psalms 118:8

“Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.”Proverbs 25:19

“In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.”Ephesians 3:12

“And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;”Philippians 1:25

“For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.”Philippians 3:3

“For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;”Hebrews 3:14

“Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.”Hebrews 10:35