Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'confidence' occurs 44 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'confidence' in the standard works and contain 9.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ps. 118:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)


Philip. 3:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

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

 3:4 Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 18 1 19
NT 20 0 20
BM 1 0 1
DC 3 0 3
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 44 1 45

Judg. 9:26
And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.

2 Kgs. 18:19
And Rab-shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

Job 4:6
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Job 18:14
His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.

Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

Ps. 65:5
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:

Ps. 118:8
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

Ps. 118:9
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.

Prov. 3:26
For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Prov. 14:26
In the fear of the Lord is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

Prov. 21:22
A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

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

Isa. 30:15
For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

Isa. 36:4
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

Jer. 2:37
Yea, thou shalt go forth from him, and thine hands upon thine head: for the Lord hath rejected thy confidences, and thou shalt not prosper in them.

Jer. 48:13
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence.

Ezek. 28:26
And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.

Ezek. 29:16
And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord God.

Micah 7:5
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.

Acts 28:31
Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.

2 Cor. 1:15
And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

2 Cor. 2:3
And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

2 Cor. 7:16
I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things.

2 Cor. 8:22
And we have sent with them our brother, whom we have oftentimes proved diligent in many things, but now much more diligent, upon the great confidence which I have in you.

2 Cor. 10:2
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

2 Cor. 11:17
That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.

Gal. 5:10
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

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

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

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

Philip. 3:4
Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:

2 Thes. 3:4
And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you.

Philem. 1:21
Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Heb. 3:6
But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

Heb. 3:14
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;

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

1 Jn. 2:28
And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.

1 Jn. 3:21
Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

1 Jn. 5:14
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

Jacob 2:35
Behold, ye have done greater iniquities than the Lamanites, our brethren. Ye have broken the hearts of your tender wives, and lost the confidence of your children, because of your bad examples before them; and the sobbings of their hearts ascend up to God against you. And because of the strictness of the word of God, which cometh down against you, many hearts died, pierced with deep wounds.

D&C 107:22
Of the Melchizedek Priesthood, three Presiding High Priests, chosen by the body, appointed and ordained to that office, and upheld by the confidence, faith, and prayer of the church, form a quorum of the Presidency of the Church.

D&C 121:45
Let thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.

D&C 124:112
This let him do if he will have an interest; and let him hearken unto the counsel of my servant Joseph, and labor with his own hands that he may obtain the confidence of men.

JS-H 1:12
Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.

JS-H 1:29
In consequence of these things, I often felt condemned for my weakness and imperfections; when, on the evening of the above-mentioned twenty-first of September, after I had retired to my bed for the night, I betook myself to prayer and supplication to Almighty God for forgiveness of all my sins and follies, and also for a manifestation to me, that I might know of my state and standing before him; for I had full confidence in obtaining a divine manifestation, as I previously had one.