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Self-Confidence

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Self-confidence in scripture names the misplaced trust the proud or self-secure put in their own strength, wisdom, or standing rather than in Yahweh — the false confidence rebuked in figures like the builders of Babel, Saul, Sennacherib, Hezekiah, Jonah, and Peter. The fault is treated alongside spiritual blindness and conceit, and the corrective is reliance on God rather than on the self.

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