35 Bible Verses about vulnerability

For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

If I have to take credit to myself, I will do so in the things in which I am feeble.

And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

And he said to them, No, but you have come to see how poor the land is.

Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.

And he has given him authority to be judge because he is the Son of man.

What cause have I for fear in the days of evil, when the evil-doing of those who are working for my downfall is round about me?

For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

And Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them loose to their shame before their haters:

So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

And he said to them, Let me give you the story of my dream.

Ever learning, and never coming to the knowledge of what is true.

But she who gives herself to pleasure is dead while she is living.

We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose.

The heart of the wise man goes in the right direction; but the heart of a foolish man in the wrong.

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

But he said with passion, If I have to be put to death with you, I will not be false to you. And they all said the same.

Even so it is not the pleasure of your Father in heaven for one of these little ones to come to destruction.

And after looking, I got up and said to the great ones and to the chiefs and to the rest of the people, Have no fear of them: keep in mind the Lord who is great and greatly to be feared, and take up arms for your brothers, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses.

And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him.

Take pleasure in well-doing; let your ways be upright, keep down the cruel, give a right decision for the child who has no father, see to the cause of the widow.

Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.

If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

Then when they had taken food, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of John, is your love for me greater than the love of these others? He said to him, Yes, Lord; you are certain of my love for you. He said to him, Then give my lambs food.

Will you put sharp-pointed irons into his skin, or fish-spears into his head?

Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.

Now to him who is able to keep you from falling, and to give you a place in his glory, free from all evil, with great joy,

And it came about that when the Jews who were living near them came, they said to us ten times, From all directions they are coming against us.

We were in the field, getting the grain stems together, and my grain kept upright, and yours came round and went down on the earth before mine.

Now though Joseph saw that these were his brothers, they had no idea who he was.

Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.

And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.

And they said to him, Not so, my lord: your servants have come with money to get food.