Bible Verses About Boldness
Throughout Scripture, boldness emerges as a hallmark of a life anchored in divine confidence. Rooted in the assurance of God’s presence, boldness is presented not as reckless bravado but as a courageous trust that empowers believers to speak truth, act justly, and stand firm amid opposition. This confident posture flows from an intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit, who cultivates a heart that overcomes fear and embraces the calling to bear witness to God’s love and salvation.
In both the Old and New Testaments, boldness is linked to the proclamation of God’s promises, the defense of righteousness, and the bold step of faith in uncertain circumstances. It is portrayed as a fruit of spiritual maturity, cultivated through prayer, obedience, and the remembrance of God’s past faithfulness. As such, boldness becomes a vital witness to the surrounding world, reflecting the transformative power of God at work within the believer’s life.
All 104 matching verses, ordered from Genesis to Revelation.
"Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed."
Ecclesiastes 8:1"Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus."
Acts 4:13"And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word,"
Acts 4:29"And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness."
Acts 4:31"Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation."
2 Corinthians 7:4"In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him."
Ephesians 3:12"According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death."
Philippians 1:20"For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus."
1 Timothy 3:13"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,"
Hebrews 10:19"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world."
1 John 4:17"And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes."
Numbers 13:20"Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee."
Deuteronomy 31:6"And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it."
Deuteronomy 31:7"And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee."
Deuteronomy 31:23"Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them."
Joshua 1:6"Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest."
Joshua 1:9"Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage."
Joshua 1:18"And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath."
Joshua 2:11"And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight."
Joshua 10:25"Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good."
2 Samuel 10:12"Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight."
1 Chronicles 19:13"Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed."
1 Chronicles 22:13"And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD."
1 Chronicles 28:20"And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 15:8"Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it."
Ezra 10:4"Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD."
Psalms 27:14"Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD."
Psalms 31:24"They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage."
Isaiah 41:6"And he shall stir up his power and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very great and mighty army; but he shall not stand: for they shall forecast devices against him."
Daniel 11:25"And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage."
Acts 28:15"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."
Judges 9:26"And Rabshakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?"
2 Kings 18:19"Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?"
Job 4:6"His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors."
Job 18:14"If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;"
Job 31:24"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"It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in princes."
Psalms 118:9"For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken."
Proverbs 3:26"In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge."
Proverbs 14:26"A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof."
Proverbs 21:22"Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint."
Proverbs 25:19"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."
Isaiah 30:15"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?"
Isaiah 36:4"And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence."
Jeremiah 48:13"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."
Ezekiel 28:26"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."
Ezekiel 29:16"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."
Micah 7:5"Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him."
Acts 28:31"And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;"
2 Corinthians 1:15"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 Corinthians 2:3"I rejoice therefore that I have confidence in you in all things."
2 Corinthians 7:16"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 Corinthians 8:22"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 Corinthians 10:2"That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting."
2 Corinthians 11:17"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."
Galatians 5:10"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"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:"
Philippians 3:4"And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you."
2 Thessalonians 3:4"Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say."
Philemon 1:21"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."
Hebrews 3:6"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"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 John 2:28"Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God."
1 John 3:21"And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:"
1 John 5:14"Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;"
Joshua 1:14"And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour."
Joshua 6:2"So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night."
Joshua 8:3"So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour."
Joshua 10:7"And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man."
Judges 3:29"And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour."
Judges 6:12"Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah."
Judges 11:1"And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there."
Judges 18:2"And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour."
Judges 20:44"So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour."
Judges 20:46"And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph."
1 Kings 11:28"Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper."
2 Kings 5:1"And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land."
2 Kings 24:14"And these were the heads of the house of their fathers, even Epher, and Ishi, and Eliel, and Azriel, and Jeremiah, and Hodaviah, and Jahdiel, mighty men of valour, famous men, and heads of the house of their fathers."
1 Chronicles 5:24"And the sons of Bela; Ezbon, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and Jerimoth, and Iri, five; heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour; and were reckoned by their genealogies twenty and two thousand and thirty and four."
1 Chronicles 7:7"And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred."
1 Chronicles 7:9"All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle."
1 Chronicles 7:11"All these were the children of Asher, heads of their father’s house, choice and mighty men of valour, chief of the princes. And the number throughout the genealogy of them that were apt to the war and to battle was twenty and six thousand men."
1 Chronicles 7:40"And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin."
1 Chronicles 8:40"And they helped David against the band of the rovers: for they were all mighty men of valour, and were captains in the host."
1 Chronicles 12:21"Of the children of Simeon, mighty men of valour for the war, seven thousand and one hundred."
1 Chronicles 12:25"And Zadok, a young man mighty of valour, and of his father’s house twenty and two captains."
1 Chronicles 12:28"And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers."
1 Chronicles 12:30"Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour."
1 Chronicles 26:6"And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business of the LORD, and in the service of the king."
1 Chronicles 26:30"Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even among the Hebronites, according to the generations of his fathers. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead."
1 Chronicles 26:31"And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king."
1 Chronicles 26:32"And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour."
2 Chronicles 13:3"And Asa had an army of men that bare targets and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valour."
2 Chronicles 14:8"And he had much business in the cities of Judah: and the men of war, mighty men of valour, were in Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 17:13"And these are the numbers of them according to the house of their fathers: Of Judah, the captains of thousands; Adnah the chief, and with him mighty men of valour three hundred thousand."
2 Chronicles 17:14"And next him was Amasiah the son of Zichri, who willingly offered himself unto the LORD; and with him two hundred thousand mighty men of valour."
2 Chronicles 17:16"And of Benjamin; Eliada a mighty man of valour, and with him armed men with bow and shield two hundred thousand."
2 Chronicles 17:17"He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver."
2 Chronicles 25:6"The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty men of valour were two thousand and six hundred."
2 Chronicles 26:12"And the LORD sent an angel, which cut off all the mighty men of valour, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, they that came forth of his own bowels slew him there with the sword."
2 Chronicles 32:21"And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men."
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