Bible on Strength

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.

Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong.

And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.

And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.

But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.

Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?

That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die.

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.

Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.

And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies, that I might destroy them that hate me.

The sons of Shemaiah; Othni, and Rephael, and Obed, Elzabad, whose brethren were strong men, Elihu, and Semachiah.

And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: he goeth on to meet the armed men.

Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly.

Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.

The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.

In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.

Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.

The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,

And he that is courageous among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day, saith the LORD.

Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.

But when the multitudes saw it, they marvelled, and glorified God, which had given such power unto men.

Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.

And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

And could not find what they might do: for all the people were very attentive to hear him.

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost.

Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,