18 Bible Verses About Strength and Being Strong in the Lord

Christian Pure Team

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Samenvatting

  • The command to be strong often comes at a handover: Joshua after Moses’s death, Solomon as David dies, Timothy in Paul’s letter from prison.
  • Philippians 4:13 is about contentment in plenty and in want, not about achieving anything.
  • Nehemiah 8:10 comes with an instruction to eat a good meal and send portions to people who have none.
  • Isaiah 30:15 offers strength in quietness and trust, and records the refusal in the same verse: but you were unwilling.
  • Hebrews 11 lists those made strong out of weakness and those sawn in two under the same heading.

Scripture often tells people to be strong at moments of handover or danger, and it locates the strength in God rather than in the person. Joshua hears it as he takes over from Moses (Joshua 1:9), Solomon as David is dying (1 Kings 2:2), and Timothy in a letter Paul wrote from prison (2 Timothy 2:1). Paul’s own version is “be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might” (Ephesians 6:10). The eighteen verses below cover who…

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Bijbelcitaten zijn afkomstig uit de English Standard Version.

The command is repeated to Joshua at 1:6, 1:7 and 1:9, and given to Solomon at 1 Chronicles 22:13 and 28:20.

Paul’s account of contentment is at Philippians 4:11-12.

The weeping at the reading of the law is at Nehemiah 8:9.

The horses Isaiah’s hearers preferred are at Isaiah 30:16 and 31:1.

The turn in the list is at Hebrews 11:35-39.

The fig tree that may not blossom is at Habakkuk 3:17.

The reverse of Joel 3:10 is at Isaiah 2:4 and Micah 4:3.

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