Proverbs 29:25

⁸It is better to take refuge in the LORD, than to put confidence in man.

⁴“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

¹⁰The LORD’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

¹⁴“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

²⁰He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in the LORD is blessed.

⁴²Nevertheless, even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue, ⁴³for they loved men’s praise more than God’s praise.

⁵“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

¹Those who trust in the LORD are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

¹⁶At my first defense, no one came to help me, but all left me. May it not be held against them. ¹⁷But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear. So I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

²¹who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God.