And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.

He gives strength to the weary,
And to him who lacks might He increases power.

If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness.

it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern?

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.

Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,

I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling,

In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.

For indeed He was crucified because of weakness, yet He lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in Him, yet we will live with Him because of the power of God directed toward you.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.

For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you be made complete.

My flesh and my heart may fail,
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

If you are slack in the day of distress,
Your strength is limited.

For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

For if someone sees you, who have knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be strengthened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.

For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

We are fools for Christ’s sake, but you are prudent in Christ; we are weak, but you are strong; you are distinguished, but we are without honor.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the scattered, bind up the broken and strengthen the sick; but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

My knees are weak from fasting,
And my flesh has grown lean, without fatness.

But you, be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work.”

One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.

but you know that it was because of a bodily illness that I preached the gospel to you the first time;

For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin.

It is good not to eat meat or to drink wine, or to do anything by which your brother stumbles.

Now accept the one who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his opinions.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
How blessed is he who considers the helpless;
The Lord will deliver him in a day of trouble.

he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness;

“Behold you have admonished many,
And you have strengthened weak hands.

Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

He will have compassion on the poor and needy,
And the lives of the needy he will save.

For all of them were trying to frighten us, thinking, “They will become discouraged with the work and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.

The young lions do lack and suffer hunger;
But they who seek the Lord shall not be in want of any good thing.

Rescue the weak and needy;
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

For I satisfy the weary ones and refresh everyone who languishes.”

All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water.

For He Himself knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are but dust.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again?

A wise man is strong,
And a man of knowledge increases power.

For they say, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his personal presence is unimpressive and his speech contemptible.”

Those who are sickly you have not strengthened, the diseased you have not healed, the broken you have not bound up, the scattered you have not brought back, nor have you sought for the lost; but with force and with severity you have dominated them.

They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection; for children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.

Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble,

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am pining away;
Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed.