Fraqueza
A fraqueza humana não é fraqueza diante de Deus. Pelo contrário, é na nossa fragilidade que o poder de Cristo se aperfeiçoa. Deus escolhe os fracos para confundir os fortes.
Poder na fraqueza
A minha graça te basta, pois o meu poder se aperfeiçoa na fraqueza. Quando sou fraco, então é que sou forte.
9 And at once he said unto meSufficient for thee, is my favour, for, my power, in weakness, is made complete. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may spread a tent over me.
10 Wherefore, I take pleasure in weaknesses, in insults, in necessities, in persecutions, and straits, in behalf of Christ; for, as soon as I am weak, then, am powerful.
7 For God hath not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and love, and correction.
13 I have might, for all things, in him that empowereth me.
Deus cuida dos fracos
O Senhor está perto dos que têm o coração quebrantado. Ele dá poder aos fracos e renova a força dos cansados.
29 Giving to him that fainteth, strength, And to him that hath no vigour, he causeth, power to abound?
26 Failed have my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heartand my portion, is God unto times age-abiding.
3 Vindicate the weak and the fatherless, The oppressed and the poor, see righted;
7 All your anxiety, casting upon him, because he careth for you.
28 Come unto me! all ye that toil and are burdened, and, I, will give you rest:
Compaixão e intercessão
O Espírito intercede por nós com gemidos inexprimíveis. Jesus compreende nossas fraquezas porque foi tentado como nós.
26 In the selfsame way moreover, even the Spirit, helpeth together in our weakness,for, what we should pray for as we ought, we know not, but, the Spirit itself, maketh intercession with sighings unutterable,
15 For we have not a high-priest unable to have fellow-feeling with our weaknesses, but one tested in all respects, by way of likeness, apart from sin.
41 Be watching and praying, that ye may not enter into temptation: The spirit, indeed, is, eager, but, the flesh, weak.
22 A joyful heart, worketh an excellent cure,but, a stricken spirit, drieth up the bone.
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the cause of all the children of the departed.