'Power' in the Bible

To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.

But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,

For I have no feeling of shame about the good news, because it is the power of God giving salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first, and then to the Greek.

For from the first making of the world, those things of God which the eye is unable to see, that is, his eternal power and existence, are fully made clear, he having given the knowledge of them through the things which he has made, so that men have no reason for wrongdoing:

What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;

For if they who are of the law are the people who get the heritage, then faith is made of no use, and the word of God has no power;

And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting;

But still death had power from Adam till Moses, even over those who had not done wrong like Adam, who is a picture of him who was to come.

And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free giving had power to give righteousness to wrongdoers in great number.

That, as sin had power in death, so grace might have power through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

For this cause do not let sin be ruling in your body which is under the power of death, so that you give way to its desires;

Is it not clear, my brothers (I am using an argument to those who have knowledge of the law), that the law has power over a man as long as he is living?

For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.

For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.

But if the Spirit of him who made Jesus come again from the dead is in you, he who made Christ Jesus come again from the dead will in the same way, through his Spirit which is in you, give life to your bodies which now are under the power of death.

For every living thing was put under the power of change, not by its desire, but by him who made it so, in hope

That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our desires into words which are not in our power to say;

For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.

What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;

He who has the power of comforting, let him do so; he who gives, let him give freely; he who has the power of ruling, let him do it with a serious mind; he who has mercy on others, let it be with joy.

Let everyone put himself under the authority of the higher powers, because there is no power which is not of God, and all powers are ordered by God.

Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

By signs and wonders, in the power of the Holy Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have given all the good news of Christ;

For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.

But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.

And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:

So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.

But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.

For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you have come together with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.

The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.

It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.

But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.

You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.

To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit;

And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:

And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.

Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?

Are all able to take away disease? have all the power of tongues? are all able to give their sense?

And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.

Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.

For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.

Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.

Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power.

The last power to come to an end is death.

It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:

In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.

For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.

O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?

The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

For it is our desire that you may not be without knowledge of our trouble which came on us in Asia, that the weight of it was very great, more than our power, so that it seemed that we had no hope even of life:

Not as if we were able by ourselves to do anything for which we might take the credit; but our power comes from God;

But we have this wealth in vessels of earth, so that it may be seen that the power comes not from us but from God;

For, while living, we are still being given up to death because of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may be seen in our flesh, though it is under the power of death.

In the true word, in the power of God; with the arms of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,

Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.

And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.

Truly the signs of an Apostle were done among you in quiet strength, with wonders and acts of power.

For he was feeble in that he was put to death on the cross, but he is living by the power of God. And we are feeble in him, but we will be living with him through the power of God in relation to you.

He who gives you the Spirit, and does works of power among you, is it by the works of law, or by the hearing of faith?

And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power,

Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come:

In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.

That in the wealth of his glory he would make you strong with power through his Spirit in your hearts;

Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,

Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

That I may have knowledge of him, and of the power of his coming back from the dead, and a part with him in his pains, becoming like him in his death;

Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;

Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;

And for this purpose I am working, using all my strength by the help of his power which is working in me strongly.

As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;

Because our good news came to you, not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Spirit, so that you were completely certain of it; even as you saw what our behaviour to you was like from our love to you.

And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

For if we have faith that Jesus underwent death and came back again, even so those who are sleeping will come again with him by God's power.

And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire,

For this reason, you are ever in our prayers, that you may seem to our God such as may have a part in his purpose and that by his power he will make all his good purpose, and the work of faith, complete;

Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,

And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

I give praise to him who gave me power, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he took me to be true, making me his servant,

Who only has life for ever, living in light to which no man may come near; whom no man has seen or is able to see: to whom be honour and power for ever. So be it.

For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.

For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;

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

That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.

Who, being the outshining of his glory, the true image of his substance, supporting all things by the word of his power, having given himself as an offering making clean from sins, took his seat at the right hand of God in heaven;

But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness.

And because the children are flesh and blood, he took a body himself and became like them; so that by his death he might put an end to him who had the power of death, that is to say, the Evil One;

For the word of God is living and full of power, and is sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through and making a division even of the soul and the spirit, the bones and the muscles, and quick to see the thoughts and purposes of the heart.