Bible verses about strength
The best-known verse here is about coping with plenty as much as with want, and the next is about a refusal. Scripture speaks of strength mostly where somebody has run out of it, and these passages are set out with a sentence on each.
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. — Philippians 4:13 · WEB
The most quoted sentence in the letter is about coping with plenty as much as with hunger.
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. — 2 Corinthians 12:9 · WEB
A request is refused three times and answered with something else, and the refusal is the letter's whole argument delivered to the man making it.
Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.” — Nehemiah 8:10 · WEB
The first response to understanding the law is weeping, and the leaders overrule it — then a feast nobody alive had kept is rediscovered by reading.
He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might. — Isaiah 40:29 · WEB
God is measured against the universe and the idol-makers in turn, and the answer to a complaint about being overlooked is the star count.
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Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments. — Habakkuk 3:19 · WEB
The prophet never gets his explanation; he gets God, and decides that will do even if everything else fails.
My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. — Psalm 73:26 · WEB
A man almost loses his faith over the prosperity of the wicked, and says so in public.
Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him. — Psalm 28:7 · WEB
A man begs not to be met with silence, and the psalm turns on the discovery that he has been heard.
Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. — Psalm 18:2 · WEB
God comes down through an earthquake and a thunderstorm to pull one man out of deep water.
Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? — Psalm 27:1 · WEB
A man surrounded by an army reduces every request he has to a single one, and it is not for safety.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — Psalm 46:1 · WEB
The world comes apart and a quiet river keeps running, and the psalm's famous instruction is not addressed to the anxious.
I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from? — Psalm 121:1 · WEB
A traveler looks at the hill country ahead and asks a question that is not rhetorical.
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. — Ephesians 6:10 · WEB
The armor is God's rather than the soldier's, the enemy is named as unseen, and the objective throughout is to stand rather than to advance.
Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.” — Joshua 1:9 · WEB
The commission hangs everything on two supports — the presence promised and the book kept — and says be strong three times to a man who evidently needed to hear it.
Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more. — 1 Chronicles 16:11 · WEB
The song moves from a covenant remembered to the whole earth summoned, and ends on a plea to be gathered home.
Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. — Psalm 118:14 · WEB