Bible Verses About Holy Boldness

The men turned away from there and went toward S'dom, but Avraham remained standing before ADONAI.

Avraham approached and said, "Will you actually sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

Maybe there are fifty righteous people in the city; will you actually sweep the place away, and not forgive it for the sake of the fifty righteous who are there?

Far be it from you to do such a thing - to kill the righteous along with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike! Far be it from you! Shouldn't the judge of all the earth do what is just?"

ADONAI said, "If I find in S'dom fifty who are righteous, then I will forgive the whole place for their sake."

Avraham answered, "Here now, I, who am but dust and ashes, have taken it upon myself to speak to Adonai.

What if there are five less than fifty righteous?"He said, "I won't destroy it if I find forty-five there."

He spoke to him yet again: "What if forty are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the forty I won't do it."

He said, "I hope Adonai won't be angry if I speak. What if thirty are found there?" He said, "I won't do it if I find thirty there."

He said, "Here now, I have taken it upon myself to speak to Adonai. What if twenty are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the twenty I won't destroy it."

He said, "I hope Adonai won't be angry if I speak just once more. What if ten are found there?" He said, "For the sake of the ten I won't destroy it."

and Ya'akov was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak.

When he saw that he did not defeat Ya'akov, he struck Ya'akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him.

The man said, "Let me go, because it's daybreak." But Ya'akov replied, "I won't let you go unless you bless me."

The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya'akov."

Then the man said, "From now on, you will no longer be called Ya'akov, but Isra'el; because you have shown your strength to both God and men and have prevailed."

Ya'akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why are you asking about my name?" and blessed him there.

Then Kefa, filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people!

If we are being examined today about a good deed done for a disabled person, if you want to know how he was restored to health,

then let it be known to you and to all the people of Isra’el that it is in the name of the Messiah, Yeshua from Natzeret, whom you had executed on a stake as a criminal but whom God has raised from the dead, that this man stands before you perfectly healed.

“This Yeshua is the stone rejected by you builders which has become the cornerstone.

There is salvation in no one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom we must be saved!”

When they saw how bold Kefa and Yochanan were, even though they were untrained ‘am-ha’aretz, they were amazed; also they recognized them as having been with Yeshua.