34 Bible Verses about Weakness

But his reply has been-- 'My help is enough for you; for my strength attains its perfection in the midst of weakness.' Most gladly, then, will I boast all the more of my weaknesses, so that the strength of the Christ may overshadow me.

If I must boast, I will boast of things which show my weakness!

Sown weak, it rises strong; sown a human body, it rises a spiritual body.

Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led astray without my burning with indignation?

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all men, so as at all costs to save some.

For God's 'folly' is wiser than men, and God's 'weakness' is stronger than men.

But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.

But God chose what the world counts foolish to put its wise men to shame, and God chose what the world counts weak to put its strong things to shame,

Indeed, when I came among you, I was weak, and full of fears, and in great anxiety.

So, also, the Spirit supports us in our weakness. We do not even know how to pray as we should; but the Spirit himself pleads for us in sighs that can find no utterance.

That is why I delight in weakness, ill-treatment, hardship, persecution, and difficulties, when borne for Christ. For, when I am weak, then it is that I am strong!

For though his crucifixion was due to weakness, his life is due to the power of God. And we, also, are weak in his weakness, but with him we shall live for you through the power of God.

We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

We are glad when we are weak, if you are strong. And what we pray for is that you may become perfect.

That is why so many among you are weak and ill, and why some are sleeping.

For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is a weak man, become so hardened that he, too, will eat food offered to idols?

What Law could not do, in so far as our earthly nature weakened its action, God did, by sending his own Son, with a nature resembling our sinful nature, to atone for sin. He condemned sin in that earthly nature,

Watch and pray, that you may not fall into temptation. True, the spirit is eager, but human nature is weak."

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools,' but you, by your union with Christ, are men of discernment. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are despised.

One man's faith permits of his eating food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.

You remember that it was owing to bodily infirmity that on the first occasion I told you the Good News.

Our High Priest is not one unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has in every way been tempted, exactly as we have been, but without sinning.

The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your Brother.

As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.

And he is able to sympathize with the ignorant and deluded, since he is himself subject to weakness,

Though he was nearly a hundred years old, yet his faith did not fail him, even when he thought of his own body, then utterly worn out, and remembered that Sarah was past bearing children.

But now that you have found God--or, rather, have been found by him--how is it that you are turning back to that poor and feeble puerile teaching, to which yet once again you are wanting to become slaves?

For people say "His letters are impressive and vigorous, but his personal appearance is insignificant and his speaking contemptible."

I can do everything in the strength of him who makes me strong!

Therefore 'lift again the down-dropped hands and straighten the weakened knees;