54 Bible Verses about Weakness

And he hath said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my power is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things that concern 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, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak: I am become all things to all men, 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 heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

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

And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered;

Wherefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.

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

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

For we rejoice, when we are weak, and ye are strong: this we also pray for, even your perfecting.

My flesh and my heart faileth; But God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.

If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye have glory, but we have dishonor.

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.

My knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.

But be ye strong, and let not your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded.

One man hath faith to eat all things: but he that is weak eateth herbs.

but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:

For we have not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but one that hath been in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor: Jehovah will deliver him in the day of evil.

who can bear gently with the ignorant and erring, for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity;

Behold, thou hast instructed many, And thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb;

He will have pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he will save.

For they all would have made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. But now, O God , strengthen thou my hands.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.

Rescue the poor and needy: Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?

A wise man is strong; Yea, a man of knowledge increaseth might,

For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech of no account.

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.

And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me.

Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees;

Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah; for I am withered away: O Jehovah, heal me; for my bones are troubled.