'Weak' in the Bible
And it happened [that] when Isaac [was] old and {his eyesight was weak}, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he said to him, "Here I [am]."
and you will see what the land is [like] and if the people who inhabit it [are] strong or weak, or whether they are few or many,
Samson said to her, "If you tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that are not dried up, I will become weak like everyone else."
He said to her, "If they tie me tightly with new ropes that have not been used, I will become weak and be like everyone else."
So {he confided everything to her}, and he said to her, "A razor {has never touched} my head, for I [am] a {Nazirite of God} {from birth}. If I am shaved my strength will leave me, and I will become weak, like everyone else.
{And then} one day when Eli was lying in his place (now his eyes had begun [to grow] weak so that he was not able to see)
I [am] weak today even though anointed king, and these men, the sons of Zeruiah, [are] crueler than I [am]. May Yahweh pay them back for doing wickedness according to their [own] wickedness."
I will come upon him while he [is] weary and {weak}. I will startle him, and all of the people who [are] with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king [while] he [is] alone.
But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."
Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.
[The] wicked sees [it] and is vexed. He gnashes his teeth and {becomes weak}. [The] desire of [the] wicked perishes.
All of them will respond and say to you, 'You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!'
Strengthen [the] weak hands and make [the] staggering knees firm.
And their inhabitants [are] {weak}; they are dismayed, and they are ashamed; they have become [like] plants of [the] field, and [like] greens of grass, [like] grass on [the] roofs and a cultivated field {before} the standing grain.
Like a horse or a crane, so I chirp; I moan like dove. My eyes are weak toward the height. Lord, I have oppression; lend me support!
You grow weary by the greatness of your way, [but] you did not say, 'Despairing!' You found the {renewal} of your {strength}, therefore you do not grow weak.
{And then} when they say to you, 'On account of what [are] you groaning?' then you must say, 'On account of [the] report, for it [is] coming, and every heart will be weak and all hands will hang limp and every spirit will be disheartened, and all knees will go [like] water.' Look! It [is] coming, and it will happen!" {declares} the Lord Yahweh.
The weak you [have] not strengthened, and the sick you [have] not healed, and {with respect to} the hurt you have not bound [them up], and you [have] not brought back the scattered, and you [have] not sought the lost, but [rather] you ruled over them with force and with ruthlessness.
Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"
Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"
And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, [because he] was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Now receive the one who is weak in faith, [but] not for quarrels about opinions.
One believes [he may] eat all [things], but the one who is weak eats [only] vegetables.
But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,
We [are] fools for the sake of Christ, but you [are] prudent in Christ! We [are] weak, but you [are] strong! You [are] honored, but we [are] dishonored!
But this knowledge [is] not in everyone. But some, being accustomed until now to the idol, eat [this food] as food sacrificed to idols, and their conscience, [because it] is weak, is defiled.
But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.
For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, [because it] is weak, be strengthened so that [he] eats the food sacrificed to idols?
For the one who is weak--the brother for whom Christ died--is destroyed by your knowledge.
Now [if you] sin in this way against the brothers and wound their conscience, which is weak, you sin against Christ.
To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all [things] to all [people], in order that by all means I may save some.
Because of this, many [are] weak and sick among you, and quite a few {have died}.
because it is said, "His letters [are] severe and powerful, but his bodily presence [is] weak and his speech is of no account."
I say [this] to [my] shame, namely, that we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares to [boast]--I am speaking in foolishness--I also dare to [boast].
Who is weak, and [I am] not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn [with indignation]?
Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
since you are demanding proof that Christ, who [is] not weak toward you, but is powerful among you, is speaking in me.
For indeed, he was crucified because of weakness, but he lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him because of the power of God toward you.
For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity.
But now, [because you] have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?
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