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Bravery 2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

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Bravery 1 Corinthians 16:13

Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.

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Bravery 1 Chronicles 28:20

David also said to Solomon his son, “Be strong and courageous, and do it. Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you before all the work for the service of the house of the LORD is finished.

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Bravery Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid or terrified of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.”

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Bravery Joshua 1:9

Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

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Bravery Philippians 1:28

without being frightened in any way by those who oppose you. This is a clear sign of their destruction but of your salvation, and it is from God.

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Bravery Romans 8:26, 27

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know how we ought to pray, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words. / And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

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Bravery Job 23:10

Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

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Bravery 1 Corinthians 2:3

I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

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Bravery 2 Timothy 4:22

The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you all.

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Courage: Personal Bravery in Entering Into the Tent of Saul, and Carrying Away Saul's Spear 1 Samuel 26:7–12

That night David and Abishai came to the troops, and Saul was lying there asleep in the inner circle of the camp, with his spear stuck in the ground by his head. And Abner and the troops were lying around him. / Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand. Now, therefore, please let me thrust the spear through him into the ground with one stroke. I will not need to strike him twice!” / But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Agag, in the Indifference with Which he Faced Death 1 Samuel 15:32, 33

Then Samuel said, “Bring me Agag king of the Amalekites.” Agag came to him cheerfully, for he thought, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.” / But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

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Courage: Personal Bravery: David, in Killing Goliath 1 Samuel 17:32–50

And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!” / But Saul replied, “You cannot go out against this Philistine to fight him. You are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.” / David replied, “Your servant has been tending his father’s sheep, and whenever a lion or a bear came and carried off a lamb from the flock,

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Courage: Personal Bravery: David's Captains 2 Samuel 23:1

These are the last words of David: “The oracle of David son of Jesse, the oracle of the man raised on high, the one anointed by the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel:

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Deborah, in Leading Israel's Armies Judges 4:1

After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Esther, in Going to the King to Save Her People Esther 4:8, 16

Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people. / “Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Esther, in Going to the King to Save Her People Esther 5:1

On the third day, Esther put on her royal attire and stood in the inner court of the palace across from the king’s quarters. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal courtroom, facing the entrance.

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Esther, in Going to the King to Save Her People Esther 6:1

That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Esther, in Going to the King to Save Her People Esther 7:1

So the king and Haman went to dine with Esther the queen,

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Jael, in Killing Sisera Judges 4:18–22

Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket. / Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again. / “Stand at the entrance to the tent,” he said, “and if anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say, ‘No.’”

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Joab, in Reproving King David 2 Samuel 19:5–7

Then Joab went into the house and said to the king, “Today you have disgraced all your servants who have saved your life and the lives of your sons and daughters, of your wives, and of your concubines. / You love those who hate you and hate those who love you! For you have made it clear today that the commanders and soldiers mean nothing to you. I know today that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead, it would have pleased you! / Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Joseph of Arimathaea, in Caring for the Body of Jesus Mark 15:43

Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent Council member who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God, boldly went to Pilate to ask for the body of Jesus.

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Joshua and Caleb, in Advising That Israel Go at Once and Possess the Land Numbers 13:30

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Joshua and Caleb, in Advising That Israel Go at Once and Possess the Land Numbers 14:6–12

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes / and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land. / If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Nehemiah, in Refusing to Take Refuge in the Temple Nehemiah 6:10–13

Later, I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his house. He said: “Let us meet at the house of God inside the temple. Let us shut the temple doors because they are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you!” / But I replied, “Should a man like me run away? Should one like me go into the temple to save his own life? I will not go!” / I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had uttered this prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Othniel, in Striking Kirjath-Sepher Joshua 15:16, 17

And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.” / So Othniel son of Caleb’s brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Peter and Other Disciples Acts 3:12–26

And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? / The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him. / You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Peter and Other Disciples Acts 4:9–13, 19, 20, 31

If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed, / then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. / This Jesus is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’

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Courage: Personal Bravery: The Apostles, Under Persecution Acts 5:21, 29–32

At daybreak the apostles entered the temple courts as they had been told and began to teach the people. When the high priest and his associates arrived, they convened the Sanhedrin—the full assembly of the elders of Israel—and sent to the jail for the apostles. / But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men. / We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey Him.”

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Courage: Personal Bravery: Thomas, in Being Willing to Die with Jesus John 11:16

Then Thomas called Didymus said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go, so that we may die with Him.”

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The Armies of Israel: Bravery and Fidelity In, Rewarded Joshua 15:16

And Caleb said, “To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage.”

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The Armies of Israel: Bravery and Fidelity In, Rewarded 1 Samuel 17:25

Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”

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The Armies of Israel: Bravery and Fidelity In, Rewarded 1 Samuel 18:17

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

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The Armies of Israel: Bravery and Fidelity In, Rewarded 2 Samuel 18:11

“You just saw him!” Joab exclaimed. “Why did you not strike him to the ground right there? I would have given you ten shekels of silver and a warrior’s belt!”

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The Armies of Israel: Bravery and Fidelity In, Rewarded 1 Chronicles 11:6

Now David had said, “Whoever is the first to strike down a Jebusite will become chief commander.” And Joab son of Zeruiah went up first, and he became the chief.

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