Quotes About Vulnerability

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”

The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ëWho can bring me down to the ground?í

For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.

All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!

Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!

Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.

They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

He took with Him Peter, James, and John, and began to be deeply troubled and distressed.

but he pulled free of the linen cloth and ran away naked.

Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted, and then he divides up his plunder.

I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling.

We have spoken freely to you, Corinthians. Our hearts are open wide.

If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness.

I will boast about such a man, but I will not boast about myself, except in my weaknesses.

They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,

You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.