26 Bible Verses about Weakness, Physical

For what the law could not do because it was weak through the flesh, God having sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned the sin in the flesh,

For when we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the wicked;

being able to deal gently with the ignorant and erring, since he is himself encompassed with infirmity,

By faith Jacob dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and worshipped leaning on the top of his staff.

For this reason many are weak and sick among you and some sleep.

And that I might not be elated with my extraordinary revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to beat me, that I should not be too much exalted.

And one of the multitude answered him, Teacher, I have brought my son to you, having a dumb spirit; and wherever it takes him it convulses him, and he foams and grates his teeth, and becomes emaciated. And I spoke to your disciples to cast it out, and they could not.

and behold, there was a woman who had been subject to a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent down, and was not able to lift herself up at all.

The sick man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is disturbed, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming another goes down before me.

but you knew I preached the gospel to you on my former [visit] in weakness of the flesh, and my trial in my flesh you despised not nor rejected, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

And a certain man lame from his birth was carried and placed daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask charity of those going into the temple;

If it is necessary to boast, I will boast of my infirmities.

Then he said to them, My soul is sorrowful even to death; remain here and watch with me.

And going out, they found a Cyrenian by the name of Simon, whom they compelled to bear his cross.

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. But while the disciples stood around him, he arose and entered into the city. And on the next day he went away with Barnabas to Derbe.

And I was with you in weakness, and with fear and with much trembling,

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak foolishly, I am more; in labors most abundant, in stripes above measure, in imprisonments most abundant, in deaths often; five times I received of the Jews forty [stripes] lacking one, thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice have I been shipwrecked, a night and a day have I spent in the deep;read more.
often on journeys, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from [my own] race, in dangers from gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers on the sea, in dangers among false brothers, in labor and weariness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Besides things without, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I am not displeased?

I have showed you all things, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

RECEIVE the weak in faith, not to doubtful reasonings.

And we, the strong, ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.

But beware lest your liberty should become an offense to the weak.

to the weak I have been as weak, that I might gain the weak; I have been all things to all men, that I may save some in all conditions;

And we exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, comfort the dispirited, assist the sick, be of long suffering towards all men.

for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God; and we also are weak in him, but live with him by the power of God in you.

for the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For we have not a chief priest who cannot sympathise with our infirmities, but one tried in all respects as we are, without sin.