Becoming Weak

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →

Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; — read the full passage →

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.

Without being weakened in faith, he didn’t consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah’s womb.

What then will we say that Abraham, our forefather, has found according to the flesh? — read the full passage →

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

for we walk by faith, not by sight.

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

Yet, looking to the promise of God, he didn’t waver through unbelief, but grew strong through faith, giving glory to God,

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

I exhort therefore, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and givings of thanks, be made for all men: — read the full passage →

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all.

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not toward God.

My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help: hurry to help me.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

For we don’t have a high priest who can’t be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, but one who has been in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →

that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inward man;

Know therefore that those who are of faith, the same are children of Abraham.

and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that through patience and through encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life.

Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the profit of circumcision? — read the full passage →

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Let us not be weary in doing good, for we will reap in due season, if we don’t give up.

One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’This is the first commandment.

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him. — read the full passage →

the God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect?

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

Jesus said to him, “Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

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

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun, — read the full passage →

Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab. — read the full passage →

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

who through him are believers in God, who raised him from the dead, and gave him glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

For consider him who has endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, that you don’t grow weary, fainting in your souls.

Let us therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy, and may find grace for help in time of need.

Yes, brother, let me have joy from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in the Lord.

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

But you, brothers, don’t be weary in doing well.

Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy, to the assembly of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ: — read the full passage →

For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. — read the full passage →

Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, — read the full passage →

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is caused to stumble, and I don’t burn with indignation?

If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain; you are still in your sins.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

and all ate the same spiritual food;

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

And through your knowledge, he who is weak perishes, the brother for whose sake Christ died.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

but for our sake also, to whom it will be accounted, who believe in him who raised Jesus, our Lord, from the dead,

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, “This is Yahweh’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

and you pay special attention to him who wears the fine clothing, and say, “Sit here in a good place”; and you tell the poor man, “Stand there,” or “Sit by my footstool”;

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, nor turning shadow.

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” don’t eat it for the sake of the one who told you, and for the sake of conscience. For “the earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness.”

Therefore if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forever more, that I don’t cause my brother to stumble.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol’s temple, won’t his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times in all ways. The Lord be with you all.