'Able' in the Bible

but if it be from God, ye will not be able to put them down, lest ye be found also fighters against God.

And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

And he said, How should I then be able unless some one guide me? And he begged Philip to come up and sit with him.

If then God has given them the same gift as also to us when we had believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who indeed was I to be able to forbid God?

Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

For also we are in danger to be put in accusation for sedition for this affair of to-day, no cause existing in reference to which we shall be able to give a reason for this concourse.

And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give to you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

And different persons cried some different thing in the crowd. But he, not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar, commanded him to be brought into the fortress.

And when he was come, the Jews who were come down from Jerusalem stood round, bringing many and grievous charges which they were not able to prove:

And the ship being caught and driven, and not able to bring her head to the wind, letting her go we were driven before it.

But running under the lee of a certain island called Clauda, we were with difficulty able to make ourselves masters of the boat;

And when it was day they did not recognise the land; but they perceived a certain bay having a strand, on which they were minded, if they should be able, to run the ship ashore;

But the centurion, desirous of saving Paul, hindered them of their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, casting themselves first into the sea, to get out on land;