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Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
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To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
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He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
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But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.”
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An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.
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and after taking some food, he regained his strength.
Saul in Damascus and Jerusalem
Saul spent several days with the disciples in Damascus.
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Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.
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strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. “We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” they said.
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Judas and Silas, who themselves were prophets, said much to encourage and strengthen the believers.
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He went through Syria and Cilicia, strengthening the churches.
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So the churches were strengthened in the faith and grew daily in numbers.
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After spending some time in Antioch, Paul set out from there and traveled from place to place throughout the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.
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Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
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For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
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But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort.
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Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and everything we do, dear friends, is for your strengthening.
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and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength
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I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
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I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
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being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,
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rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
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We sent Timothy, who is our brother and co-worker in God’s service in spreading the gospel of Christ, to strengthen and encourage you in your faith,
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May he strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all his holy ones.
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encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
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But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one.