'Able' in the Bible

And behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day these [things] take place, {because} you did not believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their time."

And [when he] came out he was not able to speak to them, and they realized that he had seen a vision in the temple. And he kept making signs to them, and remained unable to speak.

Therefore produce fruit worthy of repentance! And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham [as] father.' For I say to you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

And it happened that while he was in one of the towns, {there was} a man {covered with leprosy}. And [when he] saw Jesus, he fell down on [his] face [and] begged him, saying, "Lord, if you are willing, you are able to make me clean."

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, "Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who is able to forgive sins except God alone?"

So he said to them, "You are not able to make the {bridegroom's attendants} fast as long as the bridegroom is with them, [are you]?

How are you able to say to your brother, "Brother, allow [me] to remove the speck [that is] in your eye," [while] you yourself do not see the beam of wood in your [own] eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your [own] eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck [that is] in your brother's eye!

he is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And [when] a flood came, the river burst against that house and was not able to shake it, because it had been built well.

[When] they were not able to repay [him], he forgave [the debts] of both. Now which of them will love him more?"

Now his mother and brothers came to him, and they were not able to meet with him because of the crowd.

And a woman who was {suffering from hemorrhages} for twelve years (who, [although she] had spent all [her] assets on physicians, was not able to be healed by anyone)

And I begged your disciples that they would expel it, and they were not able [to do so]."

And that one will answer from inside [and] say, 'Do not cause me trouble! The door has already been shut and my children are with me in bed! I am not able to get up to give you [anything].'

And which of you [by] being anxious is able to add an hour to his life span?

If then you are not even able [to do] a very little thing, why are you anxious about the rest?

And behold, a woman [was there] who had a spirit {that had disabled her} [for] eighteen years, and she was bent over and not able to straighten herself up completely.

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,

And they were not able to make a reply to these [things].

and you will be blessed, because they are not able to repay you. For it will be paid back to you at the resurrection of the righteous."

And another said, 'I have married a wife, and for this [reason] I am not able to come.'

{Otherwise} [after] he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish [it], all who see [it] will begin to ridicule him,

saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

No domestic slave is able to serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and will despise the other. You are not able to serve God and money."

And in [addition to] all these [things], a great chasm has been established between us and you, so that those who want to cross over from here to you are not able [to do so], nor can they cross over from there to us.'

And he was seeking to see Jesus--who he was--and he was not able to as a result of the crowd, because he was short in stature.

And they were not able to catch [him] in a statement in the sight of the people, and astonished at his answer, they became silent.

for they are not even able to die any longer, because they are like the angels and are sons of God, [because they] are sons of the resurrection.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom that all your opponents will not be able to resist or contradict.