767 verses about Weakness

and carried him, him that had just now entered with a great train and all his guard into the aforesaid treasury, himself now brought to utter helplessness, manifestly made to recognize the sovereignty of God.

And so, while he, through the working of God, speechless and bereft of all hope and deliverance, lay prostrate,

those who were cowardly and distrustful of the judgement of God ran away and left the country.

And he that but now supposed himself to have the waves of the sea at his bidding, so vainglorious was he beyond the condition of a man, and that thought to weigh the heights of the mountains in a balance, was now brought to the ground and carried in a litter, showing to all that the power was manifestly God’s;

And the man that a little before supposed himself to touch the stars of heaven, no one could endure to carry for his intolerable stench.

But the more part of them escaped wounded and naked; and Lysias also himself escaped by shameful flight.

And if I have written well and to the point in my story, this is what I myself desired; but if meanly and indifferently, this is all I could attain to.

Then said the king to his servants, Carry me away out of the battle; for I am very weak. And immediately his servants carried him away out of the army.

Yes, many there be that have run out of their wits for women, and become bondmen for their sakes.

Behold, now are we before you in our iniquities, for we can’t stand any longer before you by reason of these things.

I was small among my brothers, and youngest in my father’s house. I tended my father’s sheep.

see now, holy King, how through our many and great sins we are borne down, and made subject to our enemies, and are become weak and powerless.

Shaking him to and fro as a reed is shaken with the wind, he cast him upon the pavement, powerless, with limbs paralyzed; by a righteous judgment deprived of the faculty of speech.

A multitude of aged hoary-haired old men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed.

The heathen believed the Jews to be destitute of all protection; for chains fettered them about.

His kinsmen, who were reclining with him, wondered at his instability, and thus expressed themselves:

And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit.

heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come to the sight of my glory.

Then answered I and said, who of the sons of men is able to do this, that you should ask me of such things?

and we pass away out of the world as grasshoppers, and our life is as a vapor, neither are we worthy to obtain mercy.

For it is not able to bear the things that are promised to the righteous in the times to come: for this world is full of sadness and infirmities.

Then I awaked, and an extreme trembling went through my body, and my mind was troubled, so that it fainted.

As for me, I am unwise: how may I then speak of these things whereof you asked me?

And so are those who come after you less than you⌃, as born of the creature which now begins to be old, and is past the strength of youth.

Now therefore why you disquiet yourself, seeing you are but a corruptible man? and why are you moved, whereas you are but mortal?

He answered me, and said, This present world is not the end; the full glory remains not therein: therefore have they who were able prayed for the weak.

For what is man, that you should take displeasure at him? or what is a corruptible race, that you should be so bitter toward it?

The root of evil is sealed up from you, weakness is done away from you, and [death] is hidden; hell and corruption are fled into forgetfulness:

and, behold, I lay as one that had been dead, and my understanding was taken from me; and he took me by the right hand, and comforted me, and set me upon my feet, and said to me,

Behold, I am yet weary in my mind, and very weak in my spirit; nor is there the least strength in me, for the great fear wherewith I was affrighted this night.

Therefore will I now beseech the Most High, that he will strengthen me to the end.

and let go from the mortal thoughts, cast away from you the burdens of man, put off now your weak nature,

For look, how much the world shall be weaker through age, so much the more shall evils increase upon those who dwell therein.

You shall be weakened as a poor woman with stripes, and as one chastened with wounds, so that your mighty ones and your lovers you shall not be able to receive.

As pleasure and pain are, therefore, two growth of the body and the soul, so there are many offshoots of these passions.

And it is not merely the stimulus of sensual indulgence, but that of every desire, that reasoning is able to master.

but a certain irrational longing for the water in the enemy’s camp grew stronger and fiercer upon him, and consumed him with languish.

And Apollonius fell half dead upon the court which is open to all nations, and extended his hands to heaven, and implored the Hebrews, with tears, to pray for him, and propitiate the heavenly army.

But perhaps some might say, It is not all who conquer passions, as all do not possess wise reasoning.

This circumstance, then, is by no means an objection, that some who have weak reasoning, are governed by their passions:

Now let us consider the matter: had any of them been weak-spirited and cowardly among them, what reasonings would they have employed but these?

for by how much mothers are by nature weak in disposition and prolific in offspring, by so much the fonder they are of children.

O woman, soldier of God for religion, you, aged and a female, have conquered through endurance even a tyrant; and though but weak, have been found more powerful in deeds and words.

When he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry afterward.

that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.” Isaiah 53:4

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.

He won’t break a bruised reed. He won’t quench a smoking flax, until he leads justice to victory.

He didn’t do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”

Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,

So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him.”

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”

Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Then Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ Zechariah 13:7

But Peter answered him, “Even if all will be made to stumble because of you, I will never be made to stumble.”

Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you that tonight, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”

He took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and severely troubled.

He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?

Watch and pray, that you don’t enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

Then he began to curse and to swear, “I don’t know the man!” Immediately the rooster crowed.

He entered again into the synagogue, and there was a man there who had his hand withered.

because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. Nobody had the strength to tame him.

Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

He could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people, and healed them.

They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.

If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”

and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren’t able.”

Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.”

Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”

When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why couldn’t we cast it out?”

But Peter said to him, “Although all will be offended, yet I will not.”

Jesus said to him, “Most certainly I tell you, that you today, even this night, before the rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times.”

But he spoke all the more, “If I must die with you, I will not deny you.” They all said the same thing.

He took with him Peter, James, and John, and began to be greatly troubled and distressed.

He went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.

He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?

Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn’t know what to answer him.

They all left him, and fled.

As Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the high priest came,

But he began to curse, and to swear, “I don’t know this man of whom you speak!”

I begged your disciples to cast it out, and they couldn’t.”

But when someone stronger attacks him and overcomes him, he takes from him his whole armor in which he trusted, and divides his plunder.

Behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bent over, and could in no way straighten herself up.

But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;

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

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.”

But he said, “The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.”

When he was at the place, he said to them, “Pray that you don’t enter into temptation.”

Being in agony he prayed more earnestly. His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down on the ground.

When he rose up from his prayer, he came to the disciples, and found them sleeping because of grief,

and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

He denied Jesus, saying, “Woman, I don’t know him.”

After a little while someone else saw him, and said, “You also are one of them!” But Peter answered, “Man, I am not!”

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

A certain man was there, who had been sick for thirty-eight years.

The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, another steps down before me.”