26 Bible Verses about Weakness, Physical

For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God has done, who, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for a sin-offering, condemned sin in the flesh,

For when we were yet without strength, at the appointed time, Christ died for the ungodly.

being able to have compassion on the ignorant and erring, because he himself is beset with infirmity:

By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and worshiped on the top of his staff.

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

And, lest I should be too much exalted by the excellence of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I might not be too much exalted.

And one of the multitude answered and said: Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a dumb spirit. And wherever it seizes him, it throws him into convulsions; and he foams, and gnashes with his teeth, and pines away: and I spoke to your disciples to cast him out, and they were not able.

And, behold, there was a woman who had had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years; and she was bowed together, and was not able to raise herself up at all.

The sick man answered him: Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred; but while I am coming, another goes down before me.

You know that through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at the first: and my trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or loathe; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was carried along, whom they laid daily at that gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, that he might ask charity of those who were going into the temple.

If I must boast, I will boast in my infirmities.

Then Jesus said to them: My soul is encompassed with sorrow even to death; remain here, and watch with me.

And as they were going out, they found a man of Gyrene, named Simon: this man they compelled to carry his cross.

Then came thither, from Antioch and Iconium, Jews, who persuaded the multitudes; and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead. But while the disciples were standing around him, he arose, and went into the city. And on the next day, he departed with Barnabas to Derbe;

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

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often. From the Jews, five times I received forty stripes, save one; three times I was beaten with rods; once I was stoned; three- times I have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I spent in the deep.read more.
In journeying s often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; in weariness and in toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: besides those things which come upon me from other sources, I have a daily concourse of troubles my anxiety for all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is led into sin, and I am not incensed?

In all things I have taught you by ex ample, that by thus laboring, you ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus; for he himself said, It is more blessed to give, than to receive.

Him that is weak in the faith, receive kindly, but not to judge his reasonings.

But we that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of those who are not strong, and not to please ourselves.

But take heed, lest, by any means, this right of yours become a stumbling-block to those who are weak.

to the weak I became like one who was weak, that I might gain the weak: I have become all things to all men, that I may, by all means, save some.

We exhort you, brethren, admonish the unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, earnestly care for the weak-minded, be of a long-suffering disposition toward all.

for though he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

For we have not a high priest that can not sympathize with our infirmities; but he was tempted in all things like ourselves, yet without sin.