So let us approach the throne of grace with confidence, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in the hour of need.
May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in your faith, that you may be overflowing with hope by the power of the holy Spirit!
Such is the confidence I possess through Christ in my service of God. It is not that I am personally qualified to form any judgment by myself; my qualifications come from God,
For I am certain neither death nor life, neither angels nor principalities, neither the present nor the future, no powers of the Height or of the Depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to part us from God's love in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Love has no dread in it; no, love in its fulness drives all dread away, for dread has to do with punishment — anyone who has dread, has not reached the fulness of love.
and this is why I am suffering. Still, I am not ashamed of it; I know whom I have trusted and I am certain he is able to keep what I have put into his hands till the great Day.
Now the confidence we have in him is this, that he listens to us whenever we ask anything in accordance with his will;
of this I am confident, that he who has begun the good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.
Charge the rich of this world not to be supercilious, and not to fix their hopes on so uncertain a thing as riches but on the living God who richly provides us with all the enjoyments of life;
in fact I told myself it was the sentence of death. But that was to make me rely not on myself but on the God who raises the dead;
So that we can say confidently, The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?