'Weak' in the Bible

Therefore mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea -- they are removed.

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

When they had completely consumed the earth's vegetation, I said, "Sovereign Lord, forgive Israel! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!"

I said, "Sovereign Lord, stop! How can Jacob survive? He is too weak!"

The Lord says, "Look! I will make you a weak nation; you will be greatly despised!

For the inhabitant of MarothBecomes weak waiting for good,Because a calamity has come down from the LordTo the gate of Jerusalem.

Behold, your people are [as weak and helpless as] women in your midst!The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies;Fire consumes the bars across your gates.

You pierce his headwith his own spears;his warriors storm out to scatter us,gloating as if ready to secretly devour the weak.

On that day it will be said to Jerusalem:“Do not fear;Zion, do not let your hands grow weak.

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but [only] those who are sick.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

When Jesus heard this, He said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need of a physician, but [only] those who are sick; I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners [who recognize their sin and humbly seek forgiveness].”

Immediately the father cried out, "I do believe: strengthen my weak faith."

Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

For while we were yet weak, in due season Christ died for the ungodly.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.

For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

[This is] because the foolishness of God [is not foolishness at all and] is wiser than men [far beyond human comprehension], and the weakness of God is stronger than men [far beyond the limits of human effort].

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 the things which are mighty;

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.

Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

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

And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

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

But quite the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are [absolutely] necessary;

For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, and I burn not?

If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show how weak I am.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

So the previous command is annulled because it was weak and unprofitable

For the law appoints as high priests men who are weak, but the promise of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son, who has been perfected forever.

quenched the raging of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength after being weak, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.

Therefore, strengthen your tired arms and your weak knees,