54 Bible Verses about Weakness

and He said to me, 'Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.

if to boast it behoveth me, of the things of my infirmity I will boast;

it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

I became to the infirm as infirm, that the infirm I might gain; to all men I have become all things, that by all means I may save some.

because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

but the foolish things of the world did God choose, that the wise He may put to shame; and the weak things of the world did God choose that He may put to shame the strong;

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

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth us, we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

for even if he was crucified from infirmity, yet he doth live from the power of God; for we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him from the power of God toward you.

And we ought -- we who are strong -- to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for -- your perfection!

Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,

Because of this, among you many are weak and sickly, and sleep do many;

for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat -- shall not his conscience -- he being infirm -- be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

we are fools because of Christ, and ye wise in Christ; we are ailing, and ye strong; ye glorious, and we dishonoured;

The lost I seek, and the driven away bring back, And the broken I bind up, and the sick I strengthen, And the fat and the strong I destroy, I feed it with judgment.

My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.

and ye, be ye strong, and let not your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work.'

one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but one tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;

Right it is not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings;

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. O the happiness of him Who is acting wisely unto the poor, In a day of evil doth Jehovah deliver him.

able to be gentle to those ignorant and going astray, since himself also is compassed with infirmity;

Lo, thou hast instructed many, And feeble hands thou makest strong.

and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,

He hath pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he saveth,

for all of them are making us afraid, saying, 'Their hands are too feeble for the work, and it is not done;' and now, strengthen Thou my hands.

Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,

Let the weak and needy escape, From the hand of the wicked deliver them.

For I have satiated the weary soul, And every grieved soul I have filled.'

All the hands are feeble, and all knees go -- waters.

For He hath known our frame, Remembering that we are dust.

and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude?

Mighty is the wise in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power,

because the letters indeed -- saith one -- are weighty and strong, and the bodily presence weak, and the speech despicable.'

The weak ye have not strengthened, And the sick one ye have not healed, And the broken ye have not bound up, And the driven away have not brought back, And the lost ye have not sought, And with might ye have ruled them and with rigour.

and they say unto him, 'Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, is this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

Favour me, O Jehovah, for I am weak, Heal me, O Jehovah, For troubled have been my bones,