8 occurrences

'Able' in the Bible

“I spoke to you at that time, saying, ‘I am not able to bear the burden of you alone.

Verse ConceptsBearingHeavy BurdensNot AloneResponsibilityNot Being Alonepressure

The Lord your God will clear away these nations before you little by little; you will not be able to put an end to them quickly, for the wild beasts would grow too numerous for you.

Verse ConceptsInvasionsGraduallyWild Beasts SubduedThe Lord Will Drive Them OutGradual Conquest Of The Land

He will deliver their kings into your hand so that you will make their name perish from under heaven; no man will be able to stand before you until you have destroyed them.

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To IsraelInvincibilityAble To StandForgetting PeopleNames Blotted OutGentile RulersThose God Gave Into Their Hands

Otherwise the land from which You brought us may say, “Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which He had promised them and because He hated them He has brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.”

Verse ConceptsImpotence Of GodDying In The WildernessGod Hating PeopleGod Might Kill His People

No man will be able to stand before you; the Lord your God will lay the dread of you and the fear of you on all the land on which you set foot, as He has spoken to you.

Verse ConceptsInvincibilityAble To StandSuccess Through God

If the distance is so great for you that you are not able to bring the tithe, since the place where the Lord your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when the Lord your God blesses you,

Verse ConceptsFar From HereTithes And OfferingMoney Blessingsdistancefriendliness

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

Verse ConceptsAbility, To GiveGiving, Of PossessionsAccording To ThingsBlessing Others

And he said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I am no longer able to come and go, and the Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross this Jordan.’

Verse ConceptsGuidance, From Godly PeopleGoing Out And Coming In

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