16 Bible Verses about Limitations Of Strength
Most Relevant Verses
The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.
The king is not saved by the multitude of a force. A mighty man is not delivered, By abundance of power.
I have turned so as to see under the sun, that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty the battle, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the intelligent wealth, nor even to the skilful grace, for time and chance happen with them all.
And I said, 'Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --
Then passed on hath the spirit, Yea, he doth transgress, And doth ascribe this his power to his god.
Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,
Lo, days are coming, and I have cut off thine arm, and the arm of the house of thy father, that an old man is not in thy house;
For Jehovah hath ransomed Jacob, And redeemed him from a hand stronger than he.
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.
And I have brought in the wicked of the nations, And they have possessed their houses, And I have caused to cease the excellency of the strong, And polluted have been those sanctifying them.
'Or how is one able to go into the house of the strong man, and to plunder his goods, if first he may not bind the strong man? and then his house he will plunder.
No one is able the vessels of the strong man -- having entered into his house -- to spoil, if first he may not bind the strong man, and then his house he will spoil.
but when the stronger than he, having come upon him, may overcome him, his whole-armour he doth take away in which he had trusted, and his spoils he distributeth;
And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.
