54 Bible Verses about Weakness

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

He gives power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increases strength.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things which concern my weaknesses.

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 offended, and I burn not?

To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might 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 becomes a stumbling block to them that are weak.

But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

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

Likewise the Spirit also helps our weakness: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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

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

We then that are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For we are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection.

My flesh and my heart fails: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion forever.

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

For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

For if any man sees you who have knowledge eating in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him who is weak be encouraged to eat those things which are offered to idols;

Strengthen you the weak hands, and make firm 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 you enter not 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 honorable, but we are despised.

I will seek those who were lost, and bring again those who were driven away, and will bind up those who were broken, and will strengthen those who were sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.

My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh lacks fatness.

Be you strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.

For one believes that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eats herbs.

You know how through weakness of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you at the first.

For we have not a high priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses; but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

It is good neither to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

Receive him that is weak in the faith, but not for passing judgment.

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] Blessed is he that considers the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.

Who can have compassion on the ignorant, and on them that are wayward; for he himself also is beset with weakness.

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

And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body as now dead, when he was about a hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb:

He shall spare the poor and needy, and shall save the souls of the needy.

For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it will not be done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands.

The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.

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

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

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

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

But now, after you have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn you again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which you desire again to be in bondage?

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increases strength.

For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed those who were sick, neither have you bound up those who were broken, neither have you brought again those who were driven away, neither have you sought those who were lost; but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them.

And they said unto him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children have come to birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Therefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are troubled.