– Employed in the AT and, above all, in the New, designates intrepidity, courage in following the Law of the Lord:
Leviticus 26:13 : I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt to deliver you from slavery.
Ps 118 : 46 : I will speak your statutes before kings, and I will not be ashamed.
– And to proclaim his Word:
Acts 4:29 , 31 : Lord, […] grant to your servants that they may proclaim your Word with all boldness.
Acts 9,27-28 : He told them how Saul had seen the Lord […] and how in Damascus he had boldly preached the name of Jesus.
Acts 18:25-26 : He was instructed in the way of the Lord […] and he taught precisely about Jesus.
Acts 28:31 : He preached the Kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.
Gal 6:14 : As for me, I never intend to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 5 :3: Not only that, but we boast even of tribulations. For we know that tribulation produces patience.
1Cor 4,13 : We have become like the filth of the world, the scum of all until now.
2Cor 11:30 : If it is necessary for us to boast, I will boast in my weakness.
2Cor 12,9-10 : My grace is sufficient for you, for it is in weakness that my strength is fully revealed.
– Jesus is the model of courage and sincerity for his disciples:
Mt 23,1-36 : Observe and do everything they say, but do not do as they do, for they say and do not do.
Jn 18:20-21 : Jesus answered him: “I have spoken publicly to the world. I taught in the synagogue and in the temple.”
