'Weak' in the Bible
Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"
Stay awake and pray that you will not enter into temptation. The spirit [is] willing, but the flesh [is] weak!"
And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, [because he] was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.
For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
Now receive the one who is weak in faith, [but] not for quarrels about opinions.
One believes [he may] eat all [things], but the one who is weak eats [only] vegetables.
But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
But the foolish [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the wise, and the weak [things] of the world God chose in order that he might put to shame the strong,
We [are] fools for the sake of Christ, but you [are] prudent in Christ! We [are] weak, but you [are] strong! You [are] honored, but we [are] dishonored!
But this knowledge [is] not in everyone. But some, being accustomed until now to the idol, eat [this food] as food sacrificed to idols, and their conscience, [because it] is weak, is defiled.
But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.
For if someone should see you who has knowledge reclining for a meal in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, [because it] is weak, be strengthened so that [he] eats the food sacrificed to idols?
For the one who is weak--the brother for whom Christ died--is destroyed by your knowledge.
Now [if you] sin in this way against the brothers and wound their conscience, which is weak, you sin against Christ.
To the weak I became weak, in order that I may gain the weak. I have become all [things] to all [people], in order that by all means I may save some.
Because of this, many [are] weak and sick among you, and quite a few {have died}.
because it is said, "His letters [are] severe and powerful, but his bodily presence [is] weak and his speech is of no account."
I say [this] to [my] shame, namely, that we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares to [boast]--I am speaking in foolishness--I also dare to [boast].
Who is weak, and [I am] not weak? Who is caused to sin, and I do not burn [with indignation]?
Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in calamities, in persecutions and difficulties for the sake of Christ, for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.
since you are demanding proof that Christ, who [is] not weak toward you, but is powerful among you, is speaking in me.
For indeed, he was crucified because of weakness, but he lives because of the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we will live together with him because of the power of God toward you.
For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong, and we pray for this: your maturity.
But now, [because you] have come to know God, or rather have come to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental spirits? Do you want to be enslaved to them all over again?