54 Bible Verses about Weakness

and he said unto me, "My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect through weakness." Very gladly therefore will I rejoice of my weakness, that the strength of Christ may dwell in me.

But that he giveth strength unto the weary, and power unto the faint?

If I must needs rejoice, I will rejoice of mine infirmities.

It is sown in dishonour, and riseth in honour. It is sown in weakness, and riseth in power.

Who is sick: and I am not sick? Who is hurt in the faith: and my heart burneth not?

To the weak became I as weak, to win the weak. In all thing I fashioned myself to all men, to save, at the leastway, some.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men: And the weakness of God is stronger than are men.

But take heed that your liberty cause not the weak to fall.

But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise. And God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound things which are mighty.

And I was among you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling.

Likewise, the spirit also helpeth our infirmities. For we know not, what to desire as we ought: but the spirit maketh intercession mightily for us with groanings which cannot be expressed with tongue.

Therefore have I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in need, in persecutions, in anguish, for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

And verily, though it came of weakness that he was crucified, yet liveth he through the power of God: and we no doubt are weak in him; but we shall live with him, by the might of God among you.

We which are strong ought to bear the frailness of them which are weak, and not to stand in our own conceits.

We are glad when we are weak, and ye strong. This also we wish for, even that ye were perfect.

My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

If thou be overseen and negligent in time of need, then is thy strength but small.

For this cause many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.

For if some man see thee, which hast knowledge, sit at meat in the idol's temple shall not the conscience of him which is weak be boldened to eat those things which are offered unto the idol?

And therefore strengthen the weak hands, and comfort the feeble knees.

For what the law could not do, inasmuch as it was weak because of the flesh - that performed God, and sent his son in the similitude of sinful flesh, and by sin damned sin in the flesh;

Watch and pray, that ye fall not into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."

We are fools for Christ's sake, and ye are wise through Christ: we are weak, and ye are strong. Ye are honorable, and we are despised.

Such as be lost, will I seek; such as go astray, will I bring again; such as be wounded, will I bind up; such as be weak, will I make strong; such as be fat and well liking, those will I preserve and feed them with the thing that is lawful.

My knees are weak through fasting; my flesh is dried up for want of fatness.

But pluck you up your hearts and let not your hands faint, for your works shall be rewarded."

One believeth that he may eat all things. Another, which is weak, eateth herbs.

Ye know well how that through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

For we have not a high priest, which cannot have compassion on our infirmities: but was in all points tempted, as we are: but yet without sin.

It is good neither to eat flesh, neither to drink wine, neither anything, whereby thy brother stumbleth, either falleth, or is made weak.

Him that is weak in the faith, receive unto you not in disputing and troubling his conscience. ]

{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Blessed is he, that considereth the poor; the LORD shall deliver him in the time of trouble.

which can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are out of the high way, because that he himself also is compassed with infirmity:

Behold, thou hast been a teacher of many, and hast comforted the weary hands.

And he fainted not in the faith, nor yet considered his own body, which was now dead, even when he was almost a hundred years old: neither yet that Sara was past childbearing.

He shall be favorable to the simple and poor; he shall preserve the souls of such as be in adversity.

For they were all minded to make us afraid and thought, "They shall withdraw their hands from the work, that they shall not labour." Howbeit I strengthened my hand the more.

The lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.

Deliver the outcast and poor, and save them from the hand of the ungodly.

For I shall feed the hungry soul, and refresh all faint hearts."

All hands shall be let down, and all knees shall be weak as the water;

For he knoweth whereof we be made, he remembereth that we are but dust;

But now, seeing ye know God - yea rather are known of God - how is it that ye turn again unto the weak and beggarly ceremonies, whereunto again ye desire afresh to be in bondage?

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of understanding is better than he that is mighty of strength.

"For the epistles," saith he, "are sore and strong: but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech homely."

The weak have ye not holden up, the sick have ye not healed: the broken have ye not bound together, the outcasts have ye not brought again. The lost have ye not sought, but churlishly and cruelly have ye ruled them.

and they said unto him, "Thus sayeth Hezekiah, 'This is the day of trouble, of plague, and of wrath: like as when a child cometh to the birth, but the woman hath no power to bring it forth.

I can do all things through the help of Christ, which strengtheneth me.

Stretch forth therefore again the hands which were let down, and the weak knees,

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am weak; O LORD, heal me, for my bones are vexed.