Quotes About Strength

He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,

Such confidence before God is ours through Christ.

Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim that anything comes from us, but our competence comes from God.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.

Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.

Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;

as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

Great is my confidence in you; great is my pride in you; I am filled with encouragement; in all our troubles my joy overflows.

Now by the mildness and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am humble when face to face with you, but bold when away.

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

For even if I boast somewhat excessively about the authority the Lord gave us for building you up rather than tearing you down, I will not be ashamed.

For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.”

I consider myself in no way inferior to those “super-apostles.”

Since many are boasting according to the flesh, I too will boast.

To my shame I concede that we were too weak for that! Speaking as a fool, however, I can match what anyone else dares to boast about.

Are they servants of Christ? I am speaking like I am out of my mind, but I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

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.