Bible Verses About Strength

verses for courage, endurance, and hard climbs — 33 passages from our curated pool.

Strength in Scripture is usually borrowed. “Be strong in the Lord” (Ephesians 6:10) is the pattern — not mustering your own, but drawing on His. That is why so many of these verses are addressed to people at the end of their own resources: exiles, prisoners, a shepherd boy facing a giant.

This set also holds the endurance verses — the ones about not quitting. Galatians 6:9 promises a harvest to those who do not give up doing good; Hebrews 12:1 pictures the whole life of faith as a race run with weights deliberately dropped.

Read Philippians 4:13 carefully: in context it is about contentment in want and plenty alike, not athletic achievement. The strength on offer is for enduring your actual circumstances, whatever they are.

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.”

Psalms 23:4

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”

Psalms 46:1

“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”

Psalms 27:1

“My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.”

Psalms 73:26

“The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.”

Proverbs 18:10

“But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

Isaiah 40:31

“Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”

Isaiah 41:10

“When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.”

Isaiah 43:2

“The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.”

Habakkuk 3:19

“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”

Joshua 1:9

“Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”

Deuteronomy 31:6

“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.”

John 15:5

“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”

Romans 8:31

“Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;”

Romans 12:12

“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

1 Corinthians 10:13

“But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

1 Corinthians 15:57

“For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.”

2 Corinthians 4:16

“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”

2 Corinthians 12:9

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.”

Galatians 6:9

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”

Ephesians 6:10

“Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:”

Philippians 1:6

“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”

Philippians 4:13

“But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.”

2 Thessalonians 3:3

“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.”

1 Timothy 6:12

“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”

2 Timothy 1:7

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,”

Hebrews 12:1

“My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”

James 1:2

“Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.”

James 1:12

“But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.”

1 Peter 5:10

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”

1 John 4:18

“Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”

Nehemiah 8:10

“Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.”

Psalms 27:14

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