54 Bible Verses about Weakness

He told me: My grace is sufficient for you for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore, I would rather glory in my infirmities (frailities), that the power of Christ may rest upon me (cover me like a tent) (descend upon me) (abide with me). (Isaiah 40:29-31)

He gives strength to those who grow tired and increases the strength of those who are weak.

If I need to boast, I will boast about the things that concern my infirmities.

It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness and it is raised in power.

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I do not burn with indignation?

To the weak I became as the weak, that I might gain the weak. I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

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

Be careful that this freedom does not become a stumbling block to those who are weak.

Instead God chose the foolish things of the world to confuse (shame) the wise. God chose the weak things of the world to confuse (shame) the things that are mighty.

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

Likewise the Spirit also helps our weaknesses. We do not know what we should pray for, as we should. The Spirit [of God] makes intercession with groaning that cannot be spoken.

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

Though he was impaled through weakness, yet he lives by the power of God. We are weak through him also, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.

We who are strong in the faith ought to help the weak to carry their burdens. We should not just please ourselves.

We are glad, when we are weak, and you are strong. We also pray that you be readjusted.

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

If you fail in time of trouble your strength is small.

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

If any man with knowledge sees you having a meal from an idol's temple, will the conscience of the weak one be emboldened (encouraged) to eat food offered to idols?

Strengthen the tired hands and the knees that tremble with weakness.

God did what the Law could not do, because human nature was weak. He sent his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering and do away with sin. So he condemned sin in sinful human nature.

Watch and pray continually that you do not enter into temptation!

We are fools for Christ. But you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honorable, but we are despised.

I will seek the lost. I will bring back the scattered. I will bind up the broken and strengthen the sick. The fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with judgment.

My knees give way because I have been fasting. My body has become lean, without any fat.

But you must remain strong and not become discouraged. Your actions will be rewarded.

For one believes that he may eat all things. Another who is weak eats only vegetables.

You know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the good news to you the first time.

We do not have a high priest who is not able to sympathize with our infirmities (weaknesses). He was tested in all things like ourselves. Yet he was without sin!

It is good neither to eat food, nor to drink wine, nor any thing that causes your brother to stumble or be offended and weakened.

Accept the man who has a weak faith, but not to entertain doubtful thinking.

([Psalm of David]) Blessed (happy) is the one who has concern for helpless people. Jehovah will rescue (save) him in times of trouble.

He is able to exercise compassion towards the ignorant and those going astray, since he is also subject to weakness.

Look, you have instructed many people. When hands were weak, you made them strong.

Not being weak in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

He will have pity on the poor and needy. He will save the needy.

They hoped to put fear in us, saying: Their hands will become feeble and give up the work so that it may not get done. But now, O God, make my hands strong.

Young lions go hungry and may starve, but those who seek Jehovah's help have all the good things they need.

Rescue the weak and needy. Help them escape the power of the wicked.

For I satisfy the weary ones and refresh everyone filled with sorrow.

Everyone's hands will be weak, and their knees will shake and they will drip from sweat.

For he knows our conception and he remembers that we are dust.

Now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and poor fundamental things? Do you want to slave for them all over again?

A wise man is strong. A man of knowledge increases strength.

For, His letters, they say, are weighty and strong. But his bodily presence is weak and his speech of no account.

You have not strengthened those that were weak, healed those who were sick, or bandaged those who were injured. You have not brought back those who strayed away or looked for those who were lost. You have ruled them harshly and violently.

They said to him: Hezekiah says: 'This day is a day of distress, rebuke and rejection. Children have come to birth, and there is no strength to deliver.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Lift up the hands that hang down, and the feeble knees.

Be merciful to me, Jehovah, for I am faint. O Jehovah, heal me, for my bones are in agony.