Bible Verses About Strength
For courage when you are afraid, see Courage and Fear. For waiting on God, see Patience and Hope. For a story about strength lost when a warning is ignored, see Samson and Delilah. Text: World English Bible (public domain).
Bible verses about strength often point away from self-reliance and toward God as a refuge. Isaiah 40:31 says those who wait for the Lord will renew their strength; Philippians 4:13 says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me; and Isaiah 41:10 promises that God will strengthen and uphold.
Verses
Isaiah 40:31. but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
Isaiah 41:10. Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Philippians 4:13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
2 Corinthians 12:9–10. 9 He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. 10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
Joshua 1:9. Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
Psalm 46:1. For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 28:7. Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.
Psalm 18:1–2. 1 For the Chief Musician. By David the servant of Yahweh, who spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said, I love you, Yahweh, my strength. 2 Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Exodus 15:2. Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.
Ephesians 6:10. Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
Nehemiah 8:10. Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for today is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved, for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”
Deuteronomy 31:6. Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them, for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
Psalm 73:26. My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Isaiah 12:2. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
Psalm 27:1. By David. Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
Habakkuk 3:19. Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
1 Chronicles 16:11. Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.