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Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
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In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, for he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ ”
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He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was already as good as dead (for he was about a hundred years old), and the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
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For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
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For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and to deal with sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
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Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with groanings too deep for words.
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Do Not Judge Another
Welcome those who are weak in faith but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions.
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Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables.
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Please Others, Not Yourselves
We who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves.
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For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength.
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But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;
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And I came to you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.
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We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are sensible people in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.
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It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
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But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
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For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak, be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols?
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So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister for whom Christ died is destroyed.
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But when you thus sin against brothers and sisters and wound their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
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To the weak I became weak, so that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.
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For this reason many of you are weak and ill, and some have died.
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On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
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It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power.
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For someone says, “His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak and his speech contemptible.”
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To my shame, I must say, we were too weak for that! But whatever anyone dares to boast of—I am speaking as a fool—I also dare to boast of that.