Becoming Weak

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me: — read the full passage →

Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

Having been declared righteous, then, by faith, we have peace toward God through our Lord Jesus Christ, — read the full passage →

For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

And faith is of things hoped for a confidence, of matters not seen a conviction,

And I, having come unto you, brethren, came--not in superiority of discourse or wisdom--declaring to you the testimony of God, — read the full passage →

for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;

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

and not having been weak in the faith, he did not consider his own body, already become dead, (being about a hundred years old,) and the deadness of Sarah's womb,

What, then, shall we say Abraham our father, to have found, according to flesh? — read the full passage →

`Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,

for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

with Christ I have been crucified, and live no more do I, and Christ doth live in me; and that which I now live in the flesh--in the faith I live of the Son of God, who did love me and did give himself for me;

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses--for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

and He said to me, `Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected;' most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:

for through faith we walk, not through sight--

Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

And we ought--we who are strong--to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves;

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye--not to determinations of reasonings;

For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;

and at the promise of God did not stagger in unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, having given glory to God,

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

I exhort, then, first of all, there be made supplications, prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, for all men: — read the full passage →

and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;

And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

Because of this <FI>it is<Fi> of faith, that <FI>it may be<Fi> according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which <FI>is<Fi> of the law only, but also to that which <FI>is<Fi> of the faith of Abraham,

for if Abraham by works was declared righteous, he hath to boast--but not before God;

for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but <FI>one<Fi> tempted in all things in like manner--apart from sin;

and stedfast is the Lord, who shall establish you, and shall guard <FI>you<Fi> from the evil;

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

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

know ye, then, that those of faith--these are sons of Abraham,

and all to Moses were baptized in the cloud, and in the sea;

for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

let not him who is eating despise him who is not eating: and let not him who is not eating judge him who is eating, for God did receive him.

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

So, then, as through one offence to all men <FI>it is<Fi> to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' <FI>it is<Fi> to all men to justification of life;

What, then, <FI>is<Fi> the superiority of the Jew? or what the profit of the circumcision? — read the full passage →

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

one doth believe that he may eat all things--and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

and thou shalt love the Lord thy God out of all thy heart, and out of thy soul, and out of all thine understanding, and out of all thy strength--this <FI>is<Fi> the first command;

and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

these things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace, in the world ye shall have tribulation, but take courage--I have overcome the world.'

`Peace I leave to you; my peace I give to you, not according as the world doth give do I give to you; let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid;

And Jesus said unto him--`To-day salvation did come to this house, inasmuch as he also is a son of Abraham;

watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls--being faint.

we may come near, then, with freedom, to the throne of the grace, that we may receive kindness, and find grace--for seasonable help.

Yes, brother, may I have profit of thee in the Lord; refresh my bowels in the Lord;

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

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

For I wish you to know how great a conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, — read the full passage →

I have known both to be abased, and I have known to abound; in everything and in all things I have been initiated, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. — read the full passage →

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us, — read the full passage →

Who is infirm, and I am not infirm? who is stumbled, and I am not fired;

and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;

No temptation hath taken you--except human; and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able, but He will make, with the temptation, also the outlet, for your being able to bear <FI>it<Fi> .

and all the same spiritual food did eat,

and thus sinning in regard to the brethren, and smiting their weak conscience--in regard to Christ ye sin;

and the brother who is infirm shall perish by thy knowledge, because of whom Christ died?

but not in all men <FI>is<Fi> the knowledge, and certain with conscience of the idol, till now, as a thing sacrificed to an idol do eat <FI>it<Fi> , and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned--to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,

And there was a man of the Pharisees, Nicodemus his name, a ruler of the Jews, — read the full passage →

and ye may look upon him bearing the gay raiment, and may say to him, `Thou--sit thou here well,' and to the poor man may say, `Thou--stand thou there, or, Sit thou here under my footstool,' --

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

and if any one may say to you, `This is a thing sacrificed to an idol,' --do not eat, because of that one who shewed <FI>it<Fi> , and of the conscience, for the Lord's <FI>is<Fi> the earth and its fulness:

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh--to the age--that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

for if any one may see thee that hast knowledge in an idol's temple reclining at meat--shall not his conscience--he being infirm--be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols,

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> , we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,

A revelation of Jesus Christ, that God gave to him, to shew to his servants what things it behoveth to come to pass quickly; and he did signify <FI>it<Fi> , having sent through his messenger to his servant John, — read the full passage →

and may the Lord of the peace Himself give to you the peace always in every way; the Lord <FI>is<Fi> with you all!