Finding Strength

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

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

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.

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

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.”

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

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

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

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.

You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

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.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen. — read the full passage →

If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

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 →

But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — 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;

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

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus.

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.

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

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

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

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.

Foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you not to obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was openly portrayed among you as crucified? — read the full passage →

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, if you have faith, and don’t doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you told this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it would be done.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.” — read the full passage →

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

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. — read the full passage →

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

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins, — read the full passage →

For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

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

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.

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.

and in nothing frightened by the adversaries, which is for them a proof of destruction, but to you of salvation, and that from God.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

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 →

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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.

For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

You therefore, my child, be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

And I thank him who enabled me, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he counted me faithful, appointing me to service;

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

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus on the way.

“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.