From Nave’s Topical Bible
False Confidence
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 36Passages listed
- 17Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- In selfDeuteronomy 29:191 Kings 20:11Proverbs 3:5Proverbs 23:4Proverbs 26:12Proverbs 28:26Isaiah 5:21Romans 12:162 Corinthians 1:9
- In outward resourcesPsalms 20:7Psalms 33:17Psalms 44:6Psalms 49:6Proverbs 11:28Isaiah 22:11Isaiah 31:1–3Jeremiah 48:7Zechariah 4:6Mark 10:24
- In manPsalms 33:16Psalms 62:9Psalms 118:8Psalms 146:3Psalms 146:4Isaiah 2:22Jeremiah 17:5Hosea 5:13Hosea 7:11
- INSTANCES OF
- At BabelGenesis 11:4
- Sennacherib, in the siege of Jerusalem2 Kings 19:23
- Asa, in relying on Syria rather than on God2 Chronicles 16:7–9
- Hezekiah, in the defenses of JerusalemIsaiah 22:11
- Peter, in asserting his devotion to JesusMatthew 26:35Luke 22:33Luke 22:34John 13:37John 13:38
- See Confidence, False
The passages, in Bible order (36)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 11:4
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
Commentary on Genesis 11:42 voices
Come, he said, let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose top may reach to heaven. The wicked teachers make a city for themselves when, having left the heavenly city, whose architect and builder is God—that is, the holy Church—they gather their own …
Bede· Commentary on Genesis (Hexaemeron), 735Patristic
And they arose and came from the land of the east; and, as they went through the land, they chanced upon the land of Shinar, which was exceeding broad; where they took in hand to build a tower. They sought means thereby to go up to heaven, and be able to leave their work as a memorial to those men who should come after them.
Irenaeus· The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, 202Patristic
- Deuteronomy 29:19
because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 29:191 voice
And it cometh to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- 1 Kings 20:11
And the king of Israel replied, “Tell him: ‘The one putting on his armor should not boast like one taking it off.’”
Commentary on 1 Kings 20:111 voice
The hump alludes to thinking or doing something that is ugly for the soul, and it is always a certain twisted deformity of mind that reaches for impure things and is distracted from the sacred threshold of the church by worldly concerns. It seems to …
Maximus of Turin· SERMON 32.1, 465Patristic
- 2 Kings 19:23
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
Commentary on 2 Kings 19:231 voice
And hast said - Isaiah clothes in words the thoughts of Sennacheribs heart - thoughts of the most extreme self-confidence. Compare Isa 10:7-14, where, probably at an earlier date, the same overweening pride is ascribed to this king. With the multitude of my chariots - There are two readings here, which give, however, nearly the same sense. The more difficult and more poetical of the two is to be preferred.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- 2 Chronicles 16:7–9
At that time Hanani the seer came to King Asa of Judah and told him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and not on the LORD your God, the army of the king of Aram has escaped from your hand.
Commentary on 2 Chronicles 16:7–91 voice
And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 20:7
Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
Commentary on Psalms 20:71 voice
They trusted in horses and chariots, he is saying, and enjoyed no benefit from them but were caught up in unseen entanglements and collapsed. We, by contrast, invoked divine assistance, and won salvation in visible manner and emerged superior to the adversaries.
Theodoret of Cyrus· COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 20:4, 458Patristic
- Psalms 33:16
No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.
Commentary on Psalms 33:162 voices
All things that are at once human, when compared with the true power, are weakness and infirmity.
Basil of Caesarea· HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 15:9 (PS 33), 379Patristic
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host,.... He may be at the head of a numerous army, and yet not get the victory over a lesser one, nor escape safe, but be taken by it: there have been such instances; and if he is saved, or gets the victory, it is not owing to the multitude with him, but to the Lord, that gives salvation to kings, Psa 144:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 33:17
A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.
Commentary on Psalms 33:171 voice
You will not be safe any more than the man who trusted in his own horse, of whom it was sung, "He cast the horse and its rider into the sea." The horse failed to save him. And so even if you are a giant …
Arnobius the Younger· COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 33, 460Patristic
- Psalms 44:6
For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
Commentary on Psalms 44:61 voice
"For not." In the preceding verse the Psalmist set forth the hope of repelling enemies; here, however, he shows the reason for what was said, namely what he said, "Through you our enemies," and therefore he shows that he does not hope in himself: because …
Thomas Aquinas· Exposition on the Psalms of David, 1274Patristic
- Psalms 49:6
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
Commentary on Psalms 49:61 voice
Even if he seems to be one of the very powerful people in this life, even if he is surrounded with a great number of possessions, these words teach him to descend from such a notion and to humble himself under the mighty hand of God. … Not even the soul is complete in itself for salvation.… Every human soul has bowed down under the evil yoke of slavery imposed by the common enemy of all and, being deprived of the very freedom that it received from the Creator, has been led captive through sin.
Basil of Caesarea· HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 19:3 (PS 49), 379Patristic
- Psalms 62:9
Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Commentary on Psalms 62:91 voice
Then he brings up a decision for all that was said, not now from his own words but one that he heard from God. "God has spoken once, these two things have I heard," he says. And let it not disturb anyone that what was said is, as it were, incredible, namely, that God spoke once and the prophet heard two things. For it is possible for someone to speak once but for the things spoken on the one occasion to be many. In fact, when a certain person met someone once, he discussed many things.
Basil of Caesarea· HOMILIES ON THE PSALMS 21:5, 379Patristic
- Psalms 118:8
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.
Commentary on Psalms 118:81 voice
Avoid entertaining people of the world, especially those whose honors make them swell with pride. You are the priest of a crucified Lord who was poor and lived on the bread of strangers. It is a disgrace to you if the consul's lictors or soldiers keep watch before your door and if the governor of the province has a better dinner with you than in his own palace.
Jerome· LETTER 52.11, 420Patristic
- Psalms 146:3
Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.
Commentary on Psalms 146:32 voices
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the sons of men, in whom there is no salvation. This he says generally to all: Put not your trust in princes, not in the emperor, not in prefects, not in the judges of the world. Put not your trust in princes. Who are the princes? The sons of men. Who are the sons of men? Those in whom there is no salvation.
Jerome· Homily 55, on Psalm 145, 420Patristic
Put not your trust in princes,.... Not in foreign princes, in alliances and confederacies with them; nor in any at home. David did not desire his people to put their trust in him, nor in his nobles and courtiers; but in the Lord Christ, who, as he is the object of praise, is also the proper object of trust.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Psalms 146:4
When his spirit departs, he returns to the ground; on that very day his plans perish.
Commentary on Psalms 146:42 voices
His spirit shall go forth, and he shall return into his earth. But when he shall have returned into his earth, what will happen? In that day all his thoughts shall perish: all the confidence of princes. All their thoughts shall perish. Put not your trust in princes. Many have trusted in princes. Today he was, tomorrow he is not. Today the army goes before him, and in the evening he lies in the tomb. After such great magnitude, such great glory, no intervals of time intervene: in the same moment is the working of Christ.
Jerome· Homily 55, on Psalm 145, 420Patristic
His breath goeth forth,.... That is, the breath of a son of man, of any and everyone of the princes; it goes forth continually, and is drawn in again as long as a man lives; but at death it goes forth, and returns no more till the resurrection: the breath which the Lord breathed into man, and which is in his nostrils while he lives, and is very precarious.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Proverbs 3:5
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
Commentary on Proverbs 3:51 voice
Once some brothers came to visit Antony, and Joseph was with them. Antony, wanting to test them, began to speak about holy Scripture. He asked the younger monks first the meaning of text after text, and each of them answered as well as he could. …
Desert Fathers· The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks, 500Patristic
- Proverbs 11:28
He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
Commentary on Proverbs 11:281 voice
He who trusts in his riches will fall, etc. He who hankers after present goods and does not think of future ones, will lack both in the end. But those who do good in the hope of future rewards, justly receive what they hope for …
Bede· Commentary on Proverbs, 735Patristic
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