34 Bible Verses about Weakness

and he said to me, "My favor is enough for you, for only where there is weakness is perfect strength developed." So I am perfectly willing to boast of all my weakness, so that the strength of Christ may shelter me.

If there must be boasting, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!

It is sown in humiliation, it is raised in splendor. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength.

Who is weak without my being weak? Whose conscience is hurt without my being fired with indignation?

To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, so as to win the overscrupulous; I have become everything to everybody, so as by all means to save some of them.

For God's folly is beyond the wisdom of men, and God's weakness is beyond their strength.

But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous.

But it was what the world calls foolish that God chose to put the wise to shame with, and it was what the world calls weak that God chose to shame its strength with,

For my part, I came among you in weakness and with a great deal of fear and trembling,

In the same way the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit itself pleads for us with inexpressible yearnings,

That is why I am pleased with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties, when they are endured for Christ's sake, for it is when I am weak that I am strong.

Even if he was crucified through weakness, by the power of God he is alive. For we are weak as he was, but you will find that by the power of God we will be alive as he is.

It is the duty of us who are strong to put up with the weaknesses of those who are immature, and not just suit ourselves.

I am glad to be weak, if you are strong! That is what I pray for??he perfecting of your characters.

This is why many of you are sick and ill and a number have fallen asleep.

For if somebody sees you, who are intelligent about this matter, attending a dinner in an idol's temple, will not he, with his sensitive conscience, be led to eat meat that is offered to idols?

For though it was impossible for the Law to do it, hampered as it was by our physical limitations, God, by sending his own Son in our sinful physical form, as a sin-offering, put his condemnation upon sin through his physical nature,

You must all watch, and pray that you may not be exposed to trial! One's spirit is eager, but flesh and blood are weak!"

We are made fools of, for the sake of Christ, while you are men of sense, through being united with him. We are weak, you are strong. You are distinguished, we are despised.

One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while the overscrupulous man eats nothing but vegetables.

though you know that it was because of an illness that I preached the good news to you that first time;

For our high priest is not one who is incapable of sympathy with our weaknesses, but he has been tempted in every way just as we have, without committing any sin.

The right thing to do is to eat no meat at all and to drink no wine or do anything else if it hurts your brother's conscience.

Treat people who are overscrupulous in their faith like brothers; do not criticize their views.

He can sympathize with the ignorant and misguided because he is himself subject to weakness,

His faith did not weaken, although he realized that his own body was worn out, for he was about a hundred years old, and that Sarah was past bearing children.

but now that you know God, or rather have come to be known by him, how can you turn back to the old, crude notions, so poor and weak, and wish to become slaves to them again?

For they say, "His letters are impressive and telling, but his personal appearance is insignificant and as a speaker he amounts to nothing."

I can do anything through him who gives me strength.

So tighten your loosening hold! Stiffen your wavering stand!