34 Bible Verses about Weakness

but He said to me, "My spiritual strength is sufficient, for it is only by means of conscious weakness that perfect power is developed."

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness!

The body is sown in decay, it is raised without decay; it is sown in humiliation, it is raised in splendor; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in strength;

Who is weak without my being weak too? Who is caused to fall without my being fired with indignation?

To the overscrupulous I have become overscrupulous, to win the overscrupulous; yes, I have become everything to everybody, in order by all means to save some of them.

It is so, because God's nonsense is wiser than men's wisdom, and God's weakness is mightier than men's might.

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.

Just the opposite: God chose what the world calls foolish to put the wise to shame, what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame,

Yes, as for myself, it was in weakness and fear and great trembling that I came to you,

In the same way the Spirit, too, is helping us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself pleads for us with unspeakable yearnings,

So I most happily boast about my weaknesses, so that the strength of Christ may overshadow me. That is why I take such pleasure in weaknesses, insults, distresses, persecution, and difficulties, which I endure for Christ's sake, for it is when I am consciously weak that I am really strong.

For though He was crucified in weakness, yet by the power of God He goes on living. We too, indeed, show weakness through our union with Him, yet by the power of God we too shall be alive toward you through fellowship with Him.

It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.

I am glad to be consciously weak, if you are really strong. This is my continual prayer, the perfecting of your characters.

This is why many of you are sick and feeble, and a considerable number are falling asleep.

For if somebody sees you, who have an intelligent view of this matter, partaking of a meal in an idol's temple, will he not be emboldened, with his overscrupulous conscience, to eat the food which has been sacrificed to an idol?

For though the law could not do it, because it was made helpless through our lower nature, yet God, by sending His own Son in a body similar to that of our lower nature, and as a sacrifice for sin, passed sentence upon sin through His body,

You must all keep watching and praying that you may not be exposed to temptation. Man's spirit is willing but human nature is weak."

For we have become a spectacle to the universe, to angels as well as men. For Christ's sake we are held as fools, while you through union with Christ are men of wisdom. We are weak; you are strong. You are held in honor; we in dishonor.

One man believes that he can eat anything; another who is overscrupulous eats nothing but vegetables.

And yet you know that it was because of an illness of mine that I preached the good news to you the first time,

For we do not have a High Priest who is incapable of sympathizing with us in our weaknesses, but we have One who was tempted in every respect as we are, and yet without committing any sin.

The right thing to do is not to eat meat, or drink wine, or do anything else, that makes your brother stumble.

Make it your practice to receive into full Christian fellowship people who are overscrupulous, but not to criticize their views.

Such a one is capable of dealing tenderly with the ignorant and erring ones, since he himself is subject to weakness,

Because he never weakened in faith, he calmly contemplated his own vital powers as worn out (for he was about one hundred years old) and the inability of Sarah to bear a child,

but now, since you have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by Him, how can you turn back to your own crude notions, so weak and worthless, and wish to become slaves to them again?

For they say, "His letters are impressive and forceful, but his physical personality is unimpressive, and his delivery is perfectly contemptible."

I can do anything through Him who gives me strength.

So tighten the grip of your slipping hands; stiffen the stand of your knocking knees;