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 He said to me, Sufficient for thee is My grace, for My power in infirmity is perfected; most gladly, therefore, will I rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of the Christ may rest on me:
10 wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;
7 for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
13 For all things I have strength, in Christs strengthening 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 He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.
26 Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.
3 Judge ye the weak and fatherless, The afflicted and the poor declare righteous.
7 all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.
28 Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, 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 And, in like manner also, the Spirit doth help our weaknesses; for, what we may pray for, as it behoveth [us], we have not known, but the Spirit himself doth make intercession for us with groanings unutterable,
15 for we have not a chief priest unable to sympathise with our infirmities, but [one] tempted in all things in like manner -- apart from sin;
41 watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.
22 A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, For the right of all sons of change.