Bible Dictionary: False Confidence in Man

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Psalm 33:16
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
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Psalm 62:9
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
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Psalm 118:8
It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man.
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Psalm 146:3,4
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
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Isaiah 2:22
Cease you from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?
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Jeremiah 17:5
Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the LORD.
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Hosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
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Hosea 7:11
Ephraim also is like a silly dove without heart: they call to Egypt, they go to Assyria.
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Library

One Saying from Three Men
... The godless are perished out of the land.'. II. We have in our second text the
mistake of a good man who has been lulled into false confidence. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture j/one saying from three men.htm

The Witness of the Spirit
... The sin of the world is a false confidence, a careless, complacent taking
for granted that a man is a Christian when he is not. ...
/.../romans corinthians to ii corinthians chap v/the witness of the spirit.htm

The Monk Nilus.
... attention to the one thing needful; to warn them against a false confidence in a ...
If you do not reform your lives, and reform them thoroughly, no man can save ...
//christianbookshelf.org/neander/light in the dark places/the monk nilus.htm

Peace
... When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.' Luke 11: This
is the devil's peace; he ... (1.) A false peace has much confidence in it ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/7 peace.htm

Sermon on the Mount Continued Its Woes in Strict Agreement with ...
... It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man; it is ... property to
condemn the praise and flattering words bestowed on the false prophets by ...
/.../tertullian/the five books against marcion/chapter xv sermon on the mount.htm

Justin by his Colloquy is Kindled with Love to Christ.
... self-control, and moderation, rather than be deceived by false words, and ... to you;
but when you have forsaken God, and reposed confidence in man, what safety ...
/.../chapter viii justin by his colloquy.htm

Man Now Deprived of Freedom of Will, and Miserably Enslaved.
... of his honour, and through rash confidence subjecting himself ... it being admitted as
incontrovertible that man is not ... deprived of every thing like false boasting ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 2 man now deprived.htm

The Climax of Ecclesiastes' Exercises Seems to have Been Reached ...
... all the universe can ever satisfy the heart of man, filled up ... some sort, the opposite
to those prevailing for the false""quietness and confidence.". ...
/.../jennings/old groans and new songs/chapter x the climax of.htm

Jeremiah and Deuteronomy. (Chs. vii, viii. 8, xi. )
... Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel: 4. Cursed be the man who hears ... have been
delivered to all Judah, rebukes the people for their false confidence in the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/smith/jeremiah/3 jeremiah and deuteronomy chs.htm

The Heath in the Desert and the Tree by the River
... The man that cannot see good when it is there before his face, because the false
direction of his confidence has blinded his eyes, cannot open his heart to it. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture h/the heath in the desert.htm

Subtopics

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False Brethren

FALSE Christs

False Confidence in Man

False Confidence in Outward Resources

False Confidence in Self

False Confidence: Asa, in Relying on Syria Rather than on God

False Confidence: At Babel

False Confidence: Hezekiah, in the Defenses of Jerusalem

False Confidence: Peter, in Asserting his Devotion to Jesus

False Confidence: Sennacherib, in the Siege of Jerusalem