³ Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.

³ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

¹² Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;

³² But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.

²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

⁵ But I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your grief.

²⁹ Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

⁴³ And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.

²⁸ But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

²² Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life: