25 Bible Verses about Strength, Spiritual

Henceforth you must grow strong through union with the Lord and through his mighty strength.

And I will send down upon you what my Father has promised. Wait here in the city until you are clothed with power from on high."

but you will be given power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses for me in Jerusalem and all over Judea and Samaria and to the very ends of the earth."

and beg him out of his wealth of glory to strengthen you mightily through his Spirit in your inner nature

May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and kindly given us unfailing encouragement and a well-founded hope, encourage you and strengthen you to do and say everything that is right.

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has given me the strength for it, for thinking me trustworthy and putting me into his service,

For the Spirit God has given us is a spirit not of timidity but of power, love, and self-discipline.

But the Lord stood by me, and gave me strength, so that I might make a full presentation of the message and let all the heathen hear it. So I was saved from the jaws of the lion.

So you, my son, must find strength in the blessing that comes through Christ Jesus.

Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.

But by God's favor I have become what I am, and the favor he showed me has not gone for nothing, but I have worked harder than any of them, although it was not really I but the favor God showed me.

You must not be carried away with strange varieties of teaching. The true way to steadfastness of heart is through God's mercy, not through scruples about food, which have never done their adherents any good.

Under the power of the Spirit Jesus returned to Galilee, and news of him went all over that region.

for which I became a worker by virtue of the gift of God's mercy which by the exercise of his power he has given me.

So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated. Three times I have prayed to the Lord about this, begging that it might leave me, and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me.read more.
That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead. But the brothers gathered about him, and he got up and re-entered the town. The next day he went on with Barnabas to Derbe.

I am hard pressed on every side, but never cut off: perplexed, but not driven to despair; routed, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; never free from the danger of being put to death like Jesus, so that in my body the life of Jesus also may be seen.read more.
For every day I live I am being given up to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may be visible in my mortal nature. So it is death that operates in my case, but life that operates in yours.

He disarmed the principalities and dominions and displayed them openly, triumphing over them through him.

And why should I go on? For my time would fail me if I told of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, who by their faith conquered kingdoms, attained uprightness, received new promises, shut the mouths of lions, put out furious fires, escaped death by the sword, found strength in their time of weakness, proved mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.read more.
Women had their dead restored to them by resurrection. Others endured torture, and refused to accept release, that they might rise again to the better life. Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison. They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawed in two, they were killed with the sword. Clothed in the skins of sheep or goats, they were driven from place to place, destitute, persecuted, misused??38 men of whom the world was not worthy wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and holes in the ground.

He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it cannot pass by me without my drinking it, your will be done!"

so that, as the Scripture says, "Let him who would boast, boast of the Lord!"

But I never want to boast of anything but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, on which the world has been crucified to me and I have been to the world.

So that we can confidently say, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can men do to me?"

Let my yoke be put upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble-minded, and your hearts will find rest,

We never sought praise from men, either from you or anyone else, though as Christ's apostles we might have stood on our dignity. We were children when we were with you; we were like a mother nursing her children. That was the kind of affection we had for you, which made us ready to share with you not only God's good news but our own lives too, because you were so dear to us.