Bible Verses about

Wrongly Placed Confidence


Psalms 62:10

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

2 Corinthians 1:15

And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

Hebrews 10:35

Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.

Isaiah 28:17

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

James 4:3

Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Ezekiel 33:13

When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

Jeremiah 17:5

Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.

Jeremiah 17:7

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.

Jeremiah 48:7

For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

Psalms 146:3

Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.

Psalms 44:6

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Psalms 49:6-7

They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: