13 Bible Verses about vulnerability

For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women--women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions,

whose mouths ought to be stopped; for they upset whole households by teaching what they ought not to teach, merely to make questionable gains.

If I must boast, I will boast of things which show my weakness!

and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.

And, because he is Son of Man, he has also given him authority to act as judge.

For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.

are always learning, and yet never able to attain to a real knowledge of the Truth.

But the life of a widow who is devoted to pleasure is a living death.

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.

But Peter vehemently protested: "Even if I must die with you, I shall never disown you!" And they all said the same.

So, too, it is the will of my Father who is in Heaven that not one of these lowly ones should be lost.

When breakfast was over, Jesus said to Simon Peter: "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than the others?" "Yes, Master," he answered, "you know that I am your friend." "Feed my lambs," said Jesus.

To him who is able to guard you from falling, and to bring you into his glorious presence, blameless and rejoicing-