'Power' in the Bible

Ascribe power to God.His majesty is over Israel,His power among the clouds.

God, You are awe-inspiring in Your sanctuaries.The God of Israel gives power and strength to His people.May God be praised!

Even when I am old and gray,God, do not abandon me.Then I will proclaim Your powerto another generation,Your strength to all who are to come.

With power You redeemed Your people,the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.Selah

They did not remember His power shownon the day He redeemed them from the foe,

Let the groans of the prisoners reach You;according to Your great power,preserve those condemned to die.

before Ephraim,Benjamin, and Manasseh.Rally Your power and come to save us.

I will extend his power to the seaand his right hand to the rivers.

What man can live and never see death?Who can save himself from the power of Sheol?Selah

Who understands the power of Your anger?Your wrath matches the fear that is due You.

Yet He saved them because of His name,to make His power known.

Their enemies oppressed them,and they were subdued under their power.

He has shown His people the power of His worksby giving them the inheritance of the nations.

There are shouts of joy and victoryin the tents of the righteous:“The Lord’s right hand performs valiantly!

The Lord’s right hand is raised.The Lord’s right hand performs valiantly!”

They will proclaim the power of Your awe-inspiring acts,and I will declare Your greatness.

Our Lord is great, vast in power;His understanding is infinite.

He is not impressed by the strength of a horse;He does not value the power of a man.

When it is in your power,don’t withhold good from the one it belongs to.

Do this, then, my son, and free yourself,for you have put yourself in your neighbor’s power:Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.

Patience is better than power,and controlling one’s temper, than capturing a city.

Life and death are in the power of the tongue,and those who love it will eat its fruit.

When the righteous triumph,there is great rejoicing,but when the wicked come to power,people hide themselves.

When the wicked come to power,people hide,but when they are destroyed,the righteous flourish. >

Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.

For this is what the Lord said to me with great power, to keep me from going the way of this people:

Look, the Lord God of Hostswill chop off the branches with terrifying power,and the tall trees will be cut down,the high trees felled.

But they will swoop downon the Philistine flank to the west.Together they will plunder the people of the east.They will extend their power over Edom and Moab,and the Ammonites will be their subjects.

For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain.But Moab will be trampled in his placeas straw is trampled in a dung pile.

See, the Lord God comes with strength,and His power establishes His rule.His reward is with Him,and His gifts accompany Him.

Look up and see:who created these?He brings out the starry host by number;He calls all of them by name.Because of His great power and strength,not one of them is missing.

So He poured out on Jacob His furious angerand the power of war.It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;it burned him, but he paid no attention.

Look, they are like stubble;fire burns them up.They cannot deliver themselvesfrom the power of the flame.This is not a coal for warming themselves,or a fire to sit beside!

Why was no one there when I came?Why was there no one to answer when I called?Is My hand too short to redeem?Or do I have no power to deliver?Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;I turn the rivers into a wilderness;their fish rot because of lack of waterand die of thirst.

Wake up, wake up!Put on the strength of the Lord’s power.Wake up as in days past,as in generations of long ago.Wasn’t it You who hacked Rahab to pieces,who pierced the sea monster?

You will see, you will rejoice,and you will flourish like grass;then the Lord’s power will be revealed to His servants,but He will show His wrath against His enemies.

Yahweh, there is no one like You.You are great;Your name is great in power.

He made the earth by His power,established the world by His wisdom,and spread out the heavens by His understanding.

I will deliver you from the power of evil peopleand redeem you from the control of the ruthless.

“Therefore, I am about to inform them,and this time I will make them knowMy power and My might;then they will know that My name is Yahweh.”

Therefore, hand their children over to famine,and pour the sword’s power on them.Let their wives become childless and widowed,their husbands slain by deadly disease,their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

For the land is full of adulterers;the land mourns because of the curse,and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.Their way of life has become evil,and their power is not rightly used

for the Lord has ransomed Jacoband redeemed him from the power of one stronger than he.

Oh, Lord God! You Yourself made the heavens and earth by Your great power and with Your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You!

He made the earth by His power,established the world by His wisdom,and spread out the heavens by His understanding.

‘Say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.

“Because you maintained an ancient hatred and handed over the Israelites to the power of the sword in the time of their disaster, the time of final punishment,

and declared:May the name of Godbe praised forever and ever,for wisdom and power belong to Him.

I offer thanks and praise to You,God of my fathers,because You have given mewisdom and power.And now You have let me knowwhat we asked of You,for You have let us knowthe king’s mystery.

Your Majesty, you are king of kings. The God of heaven has given you sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.

Now if you’re ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made. But if you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire—and who is the god who can rescue you from my power?”

If the God we serve exists, then He can rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire, and He can rescue us from the power of you, the king.

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great that I have built by my vast power to be a royal residence and to display my majestic glory?”

He rescues and delivers;He performs signs and wondersin the heavens and on the earth,for He has rescued Danielfrom the power of the lions.”

I saw the ram charging to the west, the north, and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no rescue from his power. He did whatever he wanted and became great.

I saw him approaching the ram, and infuriated with him, he struck the ram, shattering his two horns, and the ram was not strong enough to stand against him. The goat threw him to the ground and trampled him, and there was no one to rescue the ram from his power.

The four horns that took the place of the shattered horn represent four kingdoms. They will rise from that nation, but without its power.

His power will be great,but it will not be his own.He will cause terrible destructionand succeed in whatever he does.He will destroy the powerfulalong with the holy people.

Now I will tell you the truth.“Three more kings will arise in Persia, and the fourth will be far richer than the others. By the power he gains through his riches, he will stir up everyone against the kingdom of Greece.

After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to seal the agreement. She will not retain power, and his strength will not endure. She will be given up, together with her entourage, her father, and the one who supported her during those times.

After an alliance is made with him, he will act deceitfully. He will rise to power with a small nation.

“With a large army he will stir up his power and his courage against the king of the South. The king of the South will prepare for battle with an extremely large and powerful army, but he will not succeed, because plots will be made against him.

He will also invade the beautiful land, and many will fall. But these will escape from his power: Edom, Moab, and the prominent people of the Ammonites.

He will extend his power against the countries, and not even the land of Egypt will escape.

Then I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river. He raised both his hands toward heaven and swore by Him who lives eternally that it would be for a time, times, and half a time. When the power of the holy people is shattered, all these things will be completed.

I will ransom them from the power of Sheol.I will redeem them from death.Death, where are your barbs?Sheol, where is your sting?Compassion is hidden from My eyes.

Woe to those who dream up wickednessand prepare evil plans on their beds!At morning light they accomplish itbecause the power is in their hands.

As for me, however, I am filled with powerby the Spirit of the Lord,with justice and courage,to proclaim to Jacob his rebellionand to Israel his sin.

Writhe and cry out, Daughter Zion,like a woman in labor,for now you will leave the cityand camp in the open fields.You will go to Babylon;there you will be rescued;there the Lord will redeem youfrom the power of your enemies!

Nations will see and be ashamedof all their power.They will put their hands over their mouths,and their ears will become deaf.

The Lord is slow to anger but great in power;the Lord will never leave the guilty unpunished.His path is in the whirlwind and storm,and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

His brilliance is like light;rays are flashing from His hand.This is where His power is hidden.

I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the Gentile kingdoms. I will overturn chariots and their riders. Horses and their riders will fall, each by his brother’s sword.

I will move against them with My power, and they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me.

And do not bring us into temptation,but deliver us from the evil one.[For Yours is the kingdom and the powerand the glory forever. Amen.]

But Jesus called them over and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles dominate them, and the men of high position exercise power over them.

Jesus answered them, “You are deceived, because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God.

“Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the peoples of the earth will mourn; and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

“You have said it,” Jesus told him. “But I tell you, in the future you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

At once Jesus realized in Himself that power had gone out from Him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My robes?”

Then He said to them, “I assure you: There are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God come in power.”

Jesus called them over and said to them, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles dominate them, and their men of high positions exercise power over them.

Jesus told them, “Are you not deceived because you don’t know the Scriptures or the power of God?

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory.

“I am,” said Jesus, “and all of you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming with the clouds of heaven.”

And he will go before Himin the spirit and power of Elijah,to turn the hearts of fathersto their children,and the disobedientto the understanding of the righteous,to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.

The angel replied to her:“The Holy Spirit will come upon you,and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.Therefore, the holy One to be bornwill be called the Son of God.

Then Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news about Him spread throughout the entire vicinity.

Amazement came over them all, and they kept saying to one another, “What is this message? For He commands the unclean spirits with authority and power, and they come out!”

On one of those days while He was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea, and also from Jerusalem. And the Lord’s power to heal was in Him.

The whole crowd was trying to touch Him, because power was coming out from Him and healing them all.

“Someone did touch Me,” said Jesus. “I know that power has gone out from Me.”

Summoning the Twelve, He gave them power and authority over all the demons, and power to heal diseases.

Look, I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy; nothing will ever harm you.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

But from now on, the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of the Power of God.”

I will not talk with you much longer, because the ruler of the world is coming. He has no power over Me.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

After they had Peter and John stand before them, they asked the question: “By what power or in what name have you done this?”