34 Bible Verses about Weakness

but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.

If there is to be any boasting, I will boast of what I am weak enough to suffer!

sown inglorious, it rises in glory; sown in weakness, it rises in power;

Who is weak, and I do not feel his weakness? Whose faith is hurt, and I am not aglow with indignation?

to the weak I have become as weak myself, to win over the weak. To all men I have become all things, to save some by all and every means.

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

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

No, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame what is strong;

It was in weakness and fear and with great trembling that I visited you;

So too the Spirit assists us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray aright, but the Spirit pleads for us with sighs that are beyond words,

It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.

For though he was crucified in his weakness, he lives by the power of God; and though I am weak as he was weak, you will find I am alive as he is alive by the power of God.

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

I am glad to be weak if you are strong; mend your ways, that is all I ask.

That is why many of you are ill and infirm, and a number even dead.

Suppose anyone sees you, a person of enlightened mind, reclining at meat inside an idol's temple; will that really 'fortify his weak conscience'? Will it not embolden him to violate his scruples of conscience by eating food that has been offered to idols?

For God has done what the Law, weakened here by the flesh, could not do; by sending his own Son in the guise of sinful flesh, to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Watch and pray, all of you, so that you may not slip into temptation. The spirit is eager but the flesh is weak."

We, for Christ's sake, are 'fools'; you in Christ are sensible. We are weak, you are strong; you are honoured, we are in disrepute.

While one man has enough confidence to eat any food, the man of weak faith only eats vegetables.

no, although it was because of an illness (you know) that I preached the gospel to you on my former visit,

for ours is no high priest who is incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every respect like ourselves, yet without sinning.

the right course is to abstain from flesh or wine or indeed anything that your brother feels to be a stumbling-block.

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples.

can deal gently with those who err through ignorance, since he himself is beset with weakness ??3 which obliges him to present offerings for his own sins as well as for those of the People.

His faith never quailed, even when he noted the utter impotence of his own body (for he was about a hundred years old) or the impotence of Sara's womb;

but now that you know God ??or rather, are known by God ??how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

My opponent says, 'Paul's letters are weighty and telling, but his personality is weak and his delivery is beneath contempt.'

In him who strengthens me I am able for anything.

So up with your listless hands! Strengthen your weak knees!