26 Bible Verses about Weakness, Physical

For that which was impossible for the law to do, and in which it was weak through the corruption of the flesh, God by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh to be a sacrifice for sin, hath done; that is, hath condemned sin in the flesh:

For when we were yet without strength, Christ died in due season for the ungodly.

who can have due compassion on the ignorant and those that are going astray; seeing he himself also is surrounded with infirmity:

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

For this many among you are weak and infirm, and several are fallen asleep.

And least I should be too much lifted up with the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, least I should be too much elevated.

And one of the multitude answered, and said, Master I have brought unto thee my son, who is possessed by a dumb spirit: and wherever it seizeth him, it convulseth him; and he fometh, and gnasheth his teeth, and thus he pineth away: and I desired thy disciples to cast him out, and they could not.

there was a woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and utterly unable to lift herself upright.

The infirm man answered Him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is moved, to put me into the pool; but while I am coming, another goes down before me.

But ye know that in the infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel to you at first: and my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected me for it; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

And a certain man who had been lame from his birth was carried along; whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of those that were going into the temple:

If I must boast, I will boast of the things which relate to my infirmity.

and saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death, stay here and watch with me.

And as they were going along they met with a man of Cyrene, whose name was Simon; and forced him to carry the cross.

But there came thither some Jews from Antioch and Iconium, and persuading the multitude, stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead. But when the disciples were gathered round him, he rose up and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

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

so am I: are they ministers of Christ? (if I may speak as a fool) I am more: in labors more abundant, in stripes far exceeding, in prisons more frequently, and often even in deaths. From the Jews I have five times received forty stripes save one. Thrice I have been beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I have been shipwrecked, and was a night and a day on the deep:read more.
in journies often, in perils from rivers, in perils from robbers, in perils from my own nation, in perils from the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the desert, in perils on the sea, in perils among false brethren: in labor and toil, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness: and beside these outward troubles, that which besets me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is infirm, and I am not infirm also? who is offended, and I am not inflamed?

I have shewed you in all things, that by labouring thus ye ought to support the infirm; and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Receive him that is weak in the faith, but not to disputes about doubtful matters:

Now we that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves:

But see that this liberty of yours be not by any means a stumbling-block to the weak.

To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak: I became all things to all men, that I might by every means save some.

And admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be of a patient spirit towards all.

For if He was crucified as from weakness, yet He now liveth by the power of God: for we also are weak in Him, but shall live with Him by the power of God manifested to you.

Because the foolishness of God, as they call it, is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

for we have not an high-priest who cannot sympathize with our infirmities, but was in all respects tempted in like manner with us, yet without sin.