'Able' in the Bible

And don’t presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

Don’t fear those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul; rather, fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?”“We are able,” they said to Him.

No one was able to answer Him at all, and from that day no one dared to question Him anymore.

Since they were not able to bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they removed the roof above where He was. And when they had broken through, they lowered the mat on which the paralytic was lying.

Then He went home, and the crowd gathered again so that they were not even able to eat.

He would speak the word to them with many parables like these, as they were able to understand.

He lived in the tombs. No one was able to restrain him anymore—even with chains—

So He was not able to do any miracles there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

But Jesus said to them, “You don’t know what you’re asking. Are you able to drink the cup I drink or to be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?”

“We are able,” they told Him.Jesus said to them, “You will drink the cup I drink, and you will be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with.

Therefore produce fruit consistent with repentance. And don’t start saying to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children for Abraham from these stones!

If then you’re not able to do even a little thing, why worry about the rest?

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able

saying, ‘This man started to build and wasn’t able to finish.’

“Or what king, going to war against another king, will not first sit down and decide if he is able with 10,000 to oppose the one who comes against him with 20,000?

He was trying to see who Jesus was, but he was not able because of the crowd, since he was a short man.

They were not able to catch Him in what He said in public, and being amazed at His answer, they became silent.

for I will give you such words and a wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.

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.

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

My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.

but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You may even be found fighting against God.” So they were persuaded by him.

Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

“And now I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Some in the mob were shouting one thing and some another. Since he was not able to get reliable information because of the uproar, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.

commanding his accusers to come to you.] By examining him yourself you will be able to discern all these things we are accusing him of.”

You are able to determine that it is no more than 12 days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.

When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious charges that they were not able to prove,

After running under the shelter of a little island called Cauda, we were barely able to get control of the skiff.

because he was fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform.

Who are you to criticize another’s household slave? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand. For the Lord is able to make him stand.

My brothers, I myself am convinced about you that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

But the unbeliever does not welcome what comes from God’s Spirit, because it is foolishness to him; he is not able to understand it since it is evaluated spiritually.

Brothers, I was not able to speak to you as spiritual people but as people of the flesh, as babies in Christ.

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food, because you were not yet ready for it. In fact, you are still not ready,

I say this to your shame! Can it be that there is not one wise person among you who is able to arbitrate between his brothers?

No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to humanity. God is faithful, and He will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation He will also provide a way of escape so that you are able to bear it.

He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

Now if the ministry of death, chiseled in letters on stones, came with glory, so that the Israelites were not able to look directly at Moses’ face because of the glory from his face—a fading glory—

And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work.

For we are not able to do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

Is the law therefore contrary to God’s promises? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that was able to give life, then righteousness would certainly be by the law.

By reading this you are able to understand my insight about the mystery of the Messiah.

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love,

Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—

This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.

In every situation take the shield of faith,and with it you will be able to extinguishall the flaming arrows of the evil one.

I am able to do all things through Him who strengthens me.

An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an able teacher,

and that is why I suffer these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me until that day.

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

The Lord’s slave must not quarrel, but must be gentle to everyone, able to teach, and patient,

always learning and never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.

and you know that from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.

For since He Himself was tested and has suffered, He is able to help those who are tested.

He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he is also subject to weakness.

During His earthly life, He offered prayers and appeals with loud cries and tears to the One who was able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.

Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

He considered God to be able even to raise someone from the dead, and as an illustration, he received him back.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and evil, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save you.

for we all stumble in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a mature man who is also able to control his whole body.

There is one lawgiver and judge who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

And I will also make every effort that you may be able to recall these things at any time after my departure.

Everyone who has been born of God does not sin, because His seed remains in him; he is not able to sin, because he has been born of God.

Now to Him who is able to protect you from stumbling and to make you stand in the presence of His glory, blameless and with great joy,

I know your works. Because you have limited strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name, look, I have placed before you an open door that no one is able to close.

But no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or even to look in it.

because the great day of Their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?”

The rest of the people, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands to stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which are not able to see, hear, or walk.

They worshiped the dragon because he gave authority to the beast. And they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to wage war against him?”