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17 Bible Verses About Weakness

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Summary

  • In 2 Corinthians 12:9 the Lord answers Paul’s three prayers for his thorn to be removed with “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
  • Gideon calls his clan the weakest in Manasseh (Judges 6:15), and God answers with “I will be with you” rather than a denial.
  • Psalm 103:14 grounds God’s compassion in the fact that “he remembers that we are dust.”
  • Romans 8:26 names one weakness exactly, not knowing what to pray for, and says the Spirit intercedes in it.
  • Romans 15:1 and 1 Corinthians 12:22 make the weak members of a church the responsibility of the strong.

The Bible treats human weakness as the place where God’s power is shown. In 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 the Lord tells Paul, “my power is made perfect in weakness,” and Paul concludes, “when I am weak, then I am strong.” The weakness varies from passage to passage. Psalm 103:14 speaks of a body made from dust, Psalm 6:2-3 of a sick and troubled man, Matthew 26:41 of flesh that gives way, and Judges 6:15 of a man sent to do more…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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