'Able' in the Bible

and Nathanael said to him, 'Out of Nazareth is any good thing able to be?' Philip said to him, 'Come and see.'

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, 'Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'

Nicodemus saith unto him, 'How is a man able to be born, being old? is he able into the womb of his mother a second time to enter, and to be born?'

Jesus answered, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;

Nicodemus answered and said to him, 'How are these things able to happen?'

John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

'I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that is from God alone ye seek not?

no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;

The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, 'How is this one able to give us his flesh to eat?'

many, therefore, of his disciples having heard, said, 'This word is hard; who is able to hear it?'

and he said, 'Because of this I have said to you -- No one is able to come unto me, if it may not have been given him from my Father.'

the world is not able to hate you, but me it doth hate, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil.

ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'

Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'

therefore said Jesus again to them, 'I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

The Jews, therefore, said, 'Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'

wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?

it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam (the sense of the name is, Sent). So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see.

He replied, "The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and was able to see."

So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, "He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see."

Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, 'This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, 'How is a man -- a sinful one -- able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

And put the question to them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was blind at birth? how is it then that he is now able to see?

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself."

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

others said, 'These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?'

And I give them eternal life, and they will never, ever [by any means] perish; and no one will ever snatch them out of My hand.

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

and certain of them said, 'Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'

Because of this they were not able to believe, that again Isaiah said,

Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say it now.

Simon Peter saith to him, 'Sir, whither dost thou go away?' Jesus answered him, 'Whither I go away, thou art not able now to follow me, but afterward thou shalt follow me.'

Peter saith to him, 'Sir, wherefore am I not able to follow thee now? my life for thee I will lay down;'

Thomas saith to him, 'Sir, we have not known whither thou goest away, and how are we able to know the way?'

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, anyone who believes in Me [as Savior] will also do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these [in extent and outreach], because I am going to the Father.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.

remain in me, and I in you, as the branch is not able to bear fruit of itself, if it may not remain in the vine, so neither ye, if ye may not remain in me.

'I am the vine, ye the branches; he who is remaining in me, and I in him, this one doth bear much fruit, because apart from me ye are not able to do anything;

I have yet many things to say to you, but ye are not able to bear them now;

So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.

And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.