54 Bible Verses about Weakness

But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show 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 made to fall, and I am not indignant?

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.

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

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

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;

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

Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

For he was crucified in weakness, but lives by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but in dealing with you we will live with him by the power of God.

We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For we are glad when we are weak and you are strong. Your restoration is what we pray for.

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

If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.

That is why many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.

For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."

We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.

I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them in justice.

My knees are weak through fasting; my body has become gaunt, with no fat.

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded."

One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables.

You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first,

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.

Blessed is the one who considers the poor! In the day of trouble the LORD delivers him;

He can deal gently with the ignorant and wayward, since he himself is beset with weakness.

Behold, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened the weak hands.

He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.

He has pity on the weak and the needy, and saves the lives of the needy.

For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, "Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done." But now, O God, strengthen my hands.

The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked."

For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish."

All hands are feeble, and all knees turn to water.

For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,

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

The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.

They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled.