25 Bible Verses about Weakness, Physical
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For God has done what the Law could not do, weakened as it was by flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and on account of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
For while we were still without strength, Christ died in due time for the ungodly.
He is able to deal gently with the ignorant and erring, since he himself also is encompassed with moral weakness,
By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph's sons, and worshiped, leaning on the top of his staff.
This is why many among you are feeble and sickly, and many sleep.
It was for this reason, lest I should be over-elated, that there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, to buffet me, lest I should be over-elated.
"Master," answered one of the crowd, "I brought my son to you; he has a dumb spirit in him; and wherever it seizes him it dashes him down; he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and is wasting away. I begged your disciples to cast it out, but they could not."
a woman was present who had a spirit of infirmity for eighteen years. she was bent double, and could not lift herself up at all.
"Sir," answered the sick man, "I have no man to put me into the pool whenever the water is troubled; and while I am trying to come, some one else steps down before me."
on the contrary, you know that although it was illness which brought about my preaching the gospel to you at my first visit, and although my bodily affliction was a trial to you, you did not scoff at it nor spurn me, but welcomed me like an angel of God, like Christ Jesus himself.
when a man lame from his birth was carried along, who was wont to be laid each day near the gate of the Temple called the Beautiful Gate, to ask alms of those who were going into the Temple.
and he said to them. "My soul is an anguish, even unto death! Stay here, and keep watch with me."
And as they went out they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they compelled to go with them to carry his cross.
And now a party of Jews came down form Antioch and Iconium, and after persuading the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. But as the disciples collected around him, he rose and went back into the city. The next day he went off with Barnabas into Derbe;
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as though I were beside myself), such, far, more, am I; in labors more abundant, in imprisonments also more abundant, in floggings beyond measure, in deaths often. Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes. Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea.read more.
My journeys have been many; in perils of rivers, in perils of bandits; in perils from my countrymen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness; in perils on the sea, in perils among false brothers; in toil and weariness, often in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst, often without anything to eat; in cold and in nakedness. Not to mention other things, there is the crowding pressure of each day upon me, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, but I burn with indignation?
"In all things I have set you an example, how that so toiling, you ought to help the weak and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of deciding doubtful points.
Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure.
But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.
I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.
And, brothers, we urge you to admonish the disorderly, comfort the faint-hearted, sustain the weak, lose patience with none.
For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he now lives through the power of God. I also am weak, sharing in his weakness, but I shall live with him by the power of God.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
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