54 Bible Verses about Weakness

And he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, because the power is perfected in weakness." Therefore rather I will boast most gladly in my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may reside in me.

[He] gives power to the weary, and he increases power for {the powerless}.

If it is necessary to boast, I will boast [about] {the things related to 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 sin, and I do not burn [with indignation]?

To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all [things] to all [people], in order that by all means I may save some.

For the foolishness of God is wiser than human [wisdom], and the weakness of God [is] stronger than human [strength].

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,

And I came to you in weakness and in fear and with much trembling,

And likewise also, the Spirit helps [us] in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes [for us] [with] unexpressed groanings.

Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.

For indeed, he was crucified because of weakness, but he lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him because of the power of God toward you.

But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity.

My flesh and heart failed, [but] God [is] the {strength} of my heart and my reward forever.

[If] you faint on the day of adversity, little [is] your strength.

Because of this, many [are] weak and sick among you, and quite a few {have died}.

For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, [because it] is weak, be strengthened so that [he] eats the food sacrificed to idols?

Strengthen [the] weak hands and make [the] staggering knees firm.

For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"

We [are] fools for the sake of Christ, but you [are] prudent in Christ! We [are] weak, but you [are] strong! You [are] honored, but we [are] dishonored!

"I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the scattered, and I will bind [up] the one hurt, and I will strengthen the sick; and the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed her with justice."

My knees {buckle} from fasting, and my body grows lean without fat.

But as for you, be strong and let not your hands be weak, for there is reward for your labor."

One believes [he may] eat all [things], but the one who is weak eats [only] vegetables.

But you know that because of an illness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.

For we do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our weaknesses, but who has been tempted in all [things] in the same way, without sin.

[It is] good not to eat meat or to drink wine or [to do anything] by which your brother stumbles or is offended or is weakened.

Now receive the one who is weak in faith, [but] not for quarrels about opinions.

Blessed [is the one who] has regard for [the] poor; in [the] day of disaster, Yahweh delivers him.

being able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and led astray, since he himself also is surrounded by weakness,

Look, you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands.

And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, [because he] was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

He will take pity on [the] helpless and needy, and [the] lives of [the] needy he will save.

for all of them [sought] to frighten us, saying, "their hands will not do the work." And now, [God], strengthen my hands.

[The] young lions are in want and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh will not lack for any good thing.

Rescue [the] helpless and [the] needy; deliver [them] from the hand of [the] wicked."

For I will saturate [the] thirst of [the] weary, and every person [who] languishes I will replenish."

All of the hands will hang limp, and all of {the knees will be wet with urine}.

For he knows our frame. He remembers that we [are] dust.

But now, [because you] have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?

The warrior of wisdom [is] in strength, and a man of knowledge is strong [in] power.

because it is said, "His letters [are] severe and powerful, but his bodily presence [is] weak and his speech is of no account."

The weak you [have] not strengthened, and the sick you [have] not healed, and {with respect to} the hurt you have not bound [them up], and you [have] not brought back the scattered, and you [have] not sought the lost, but [rather] you ruled over them with force and with ruthlessness.

And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This day [is] a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to [the] cervical opening, and there is no strength to give birth.

I am able [to do] all [things] by the one who strengthens me.

Therefore strengthen your slackened hands and your weakened knees,

Be gracious to me, O Yahweh, because I am feeble. Heal me, O Yahweh, for my bones are terrified.