Nehemiah 6:11-13 But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should someone like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!”  I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.  He had been hired to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and then they would give me a bad name to discredit me.
 
2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.