25 Bible Verses about Strength, Spiritual

To conclude. Be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might;

And I will send down on you what my Father has promised; wait in the city till you are endued with power from on high."

You will receive power when the holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses at Jerusalem, throughout all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

praying Him out of the wealth of his glory to grant you a mighty increase of strength by his Spirit in the inner man.

And may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father who has loved us and given us eternal encouragement and good hope, graciously encourage your hearts and strengthen them for all good in deed and word.

I render thanks to Christ Jesus our Lord, who has made me able for this; he considered me trustworthy and appointed me to the ministry,

for God has not given us a timid spirit but a spirit of power and love and discipline.

But the Lord supported me and gave me strength to make a full statement of the gospel and let all the heathen hear it. I was rescued from the jaws of the lion.

Now, my son, be strong in the grace of Christ Jesus,

And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace; he is able to upbuild you and give you your inheritance among all the consecrated.

But by God's grace I am what I am. The grace he showed me did not go for nothing; no, I have done far more work than all of them ??though it was not I but God's grace at my side.

Never let yourselves be carried away with a variety of novel doctrines; for the right thing is to have one's heart strengthened by grace, not by the eating of food ??that has never been any use to those who have had recourse to it.

Then Jesus came back in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and the news of him spread over all the surrounding country.

Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power;

My wealth of visions might have puffed me up, so I was given a thorn in the flesh, an angel of Satan to rack me and keep me from being puffed up; three times over I prayed the Lord to make it leave me, but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.read more.
It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

But Jews from Antioch and Iconium arrived, who won over the crowds, and after pelting Paul with stones they dragged him outside the town, thinking he was dead. However, as the disciples gathered round him, he got up and went into the town. Next day he went off with Barnabas to Derbe,

on every side I am harried but not hemmed in, perplexed but not despairing, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed ??10 wherever I go, I am being killed in the body as Jesus was, so that the life of Jesus may come out in my body: every day of my life I am being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that the life of Jesus may come out within my mortal flesh.read more.
In me then death is active, in you life.

when he cut away the angelic Rulers and Powers from us, exposing them to all the world and triumphing over them in the cross.

And what more shall I say? Time would fail me to tell of Gideon, of Barak and Samson and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets ??33 men who by faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouth of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from weakness won to strength, proved valiant in warfare, and routed hosts of foreigners. Some were given back to their womankind, raised from the very dead; others were broken on the wheel, refusing to accept release, that they might obtain a better resurrection;read more.
others, again, had to experience scoffs and scourging, aye chains and imprisonment ??37 they were stoned, sawn in two, and cut to pieces; they had to roam about in sheepskins and goatskins, forlorn, oppressed, ill-treated (men of whom the world was not worthy), wanderers in the desert and among the hills, in caves and gullies.

Again he went away for the second time and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, thy will be done."

so that, as it is written, let him who boasts boast of the Lord.

But no boasting for me, none except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me and I crucified to the world.

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

Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed;

we never sought honour from men, from you or from anybody else, though as apostles of Christ we had the power of claiming to be men of weight; no, we behaved gently when we were among you, like a nursing mother cherishing her own children, fain, in our yearning affection for you, to impart not only the gospel of God to you but our very souls as well ??you had so won our love.