Self-confidence

A positive assessment of one’s own abilities and resources. Scripture censures excessive self-confidence, in that such an attitude lacks humility and fails to recognise the role of God’s grace in the Christian life.

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Excessive self-confidence In one’s own abilities Is 28:15; Mt 26:33–35 See also Lk 22:33–34; Jdg 16:20; 1 Ki 20:11; 2 Ki 19:23–24; Job 8:13–14; Ps 49:5–6; Je 17:5; Ho 12:8 Excessive self-confidence leads to pride Is 9:9–10; Ob 3 See also Ge 11:4; Ge 37:5; Ex 15:9; 2 Ch 26:16; Pr 16:18; Is 16:6; Eze 28:2;…