'Able' in the Bible

and lo, thou shalt be silent, and not able to speak, till the day that these things shall come to pass, because thou didst not believe my words, that shall be fulfilled in their season.'

and having come out, he was not able to speak to them, and they perceived that a vision he had seen in the sanctuary, and he was beckoning to them, and did remain dumb.

make, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have a father -- Abraham; for I say to you, that God is able out of these stones to raise children to Abraham;

And it came to pass, in his being in one of the cities, that lo, a man full of leprosy, and having seen Jesus, having fallen on his face, he besought him, saying, 'Sir, if thou mayest will, thou art able to cleanse me;'

And the scribes and the Pharisees began to reason, saying, 'Who is this that doth speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins, except God only?'

And he said unto them, 'Are ye able to make the sons of the bride-chamber -- in the bridegroom being with them -- to fast?

And he spake a simile to them, 'Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

or how art thou able to say to thy brother, Brother, suffer, I may take out the mote that is in thine eye -- thyself the beam in thine own eye not beholding? Hypocrite, take first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

And there came unto him his mother and brethren, and they were not able to get to him because of the multitude,

and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,

and I besought thy disciples that they might cast it out, and they were not able.'

and he from within answering may say, Do not give me trouble, already the door hath been shut, and my children with me are in the bed, I am not able, having risen, to give to thee.

and who of you, being anxious, is able to add to his age one cubit?

If, then, ye are not able for the least -- why for the rest are ye anxious?

and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all,

'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

and they were not able to answer him again unto these things.

and another said, A wife I married, and because of this I am not able to come.

'If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

and whoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, is not able to be my disciple.

lest that he having laid a foundation, and not being able to finish, all who are beholding may begin to mock him,

saying -- This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

'Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?

'So, then, every one of you who doth not take leave of all that he himself hath, is not able to be my disciple.

And the steward said in himself, What shall I do, because my lord doth take away the stewardship from me? to dig I am not able, to beg I am ashamed: --

'No domestic is able to serve two lords, for either the one he will hate, and the other he will love; or one he will hold to, and of the other he will be heedless; ye are not able to serve God and mammon.'

and besides all these things, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that they who are willing to go over from hence unto you are not able, nor do they from thence to us pass through.

And those who heard, said, 'And who is able to be saved?'

and he was seeking to see Jesus, who he is, and was not able for the multitude, because in stature he was small,

and they were not able to take hold on his saying before the people, and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.

for neither are they able to die any more -- for they are like messengers -- and they are sons of God, being sons of the rising again.

for I will give to you a mouth and wisdom that all your opposers shall not be able to refute or resist.