54 Bible Verses about Weakness

but he has told me, "My grace is all you need, because my power is perfected in weakness." Therefore, I will most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the Messiah's power may rest on me.

He's the one who gives might to the faint, renewing strength for the powerless.

If I must boast, I will boast about the things that show how weak I am.

The body is planted in a state of dishonor but is raised in a state of splendor. It is planted in weakness but is raised in power.

Who is weak without me being weak, too? Who is caused to stumble without me becoming indignant?

To the weak I became weak in order to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some of them.

For God's nonsense is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block for those who are weak.

But God chose what is nonsense in the world to make the wise feel ashamed. God chose what is weak in the world to make the strong feel ashamed.

It was in weakness, fear, and great trembling that I came to you.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, since we do not know how to pray as we should. But the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans too deep for words,

That is why I take such pleasure in weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for the Messiah's sake, for when I am weak, then I am strong.

Though he was crucified in weakness, he lives by God's power. We are weak with him, but by God's power we will live for you.

Now we who are strong ought to be patient with the weaknesses of those who are not strong and must stop pleasing ourselves.

We are glad when we are weak and you are strong. That is what we are praying for your maturity.

My body and mind may fail, but God is my strength and my portion forever.

If you grow weary when times are troubled, your strength is limited.

That's why so many of you are weak and sick and a considerable number are dying.

For if anyone with a weak conscience sees you, who know better, eating in an idol's temple, he will be encouraged to eat what has been offered to idols, won't he?

Strengthen the feeble hands, and support the stumbling knees.

For what the Law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did. By sending his own Son in the form of humanity, he condemned sin by being incarnate,

All of you must stay awake and pray that you won't be tempted. The spirit is indeed willing, but the body is weak."

We are fools for the Messiah's sake, but you are wise in the Messiah. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

"I'm going to seek both the lost as well as the scattered, and bring them both back so their broken bones can be set and the sick can be healed. But in righteousness I'll exterminate the fat and the stiff-necked.'"

My knees give way from fasting, and my skin is lean, deprived of oil.

Now as for you, be strong and never be discouraged, because there will be reward for your work."

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

You know that it was because I was ill that I brought you the gospel the first time.

For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses. Instead, we have one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet he never sinned.

The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that makes your brother stumble, upset, or weak.

Accept anyone who is weak in faith, but not for the purpose of arguing over differences of opinion.

Blessed is the one who is considerate of the destitute; the LORD will deliver him when the times are evil.

He can deal gently with people who are ignorant and easily deceived, since he himself is subject to weakness.

Look! You've admonished many people, and you've strengthened feeble hands.

His faith did not weaken when he thought about his own body (which was already as good as dead now that he was about a hundred years old) or about Sarah's inability to have children,

He will have compassion on the poor and the needy, and he will save the lives of the needy.

For they all were trying to make us afraid by saying, "Their hands will become tired from laboring, so the work won't be completed." "Therefore, LORD, strengthen my hands!"

Young lions lack and go hungry, but those who seek the LORD will never lack any good thing.

Rescue the poor and the needy, delivering them from the power of the wicked.

I'll provide abundance for those who are weary, and fill all who are faint."

Every hand will be limp. Every knee will glisten with sweat."

For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

But now that you know God, or rather have been known by God, how can you turn back again to those powerless and bankrupt basic principles? Why do you want to become their slaves all over again?

A wise man is strong, and a knowledgeable man grows in strength.

For someone is saying, "His letters are impressive and forceful, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible."

You haven't strengthened the weak, treated the sick, set broken bones, regathered the scattered, or looked for the lost. Instead, you've dominated them with brutal force and ruthlessness.

"Here is what Hezekiah says," they told him. "This day is a day of trouble, rebuke, and disgrace, as when children come to the point of birth and there is no energy to deliver them.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Therefore, strengthen your tired arms and your weak knees,

Be gracious to me, LORD, because I am fading away. Heal me, because my body is distressed.