Bible verses about "empowerment" | Thomson

¹⁰ Fear not, for I am with thee; be not led astray, for I am thy God. I have strengthened thee and helped thee, and secured thee with my just right hand. ¹¹ Behold all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as nothing and all thine opponents shall be destroyed. ¹² Thou mayst seek but thou shalt not find the men, who through drunkenness will dare to insult thee. For they shall be as mere nothing: and they who war against thee shall be no more. ¹³ For I am thy God, who have hold of thy right hand, and who say to thee,

¹⁸ Then Jesus came near and spoke to them, saying, All power in heaven and on earth is given to me. ¹⁹ Go therefore and make all the nations disciples, baptizing them to the Name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all that I commanded you. And lo! I am with you all the days to the conclusion of this age. Amen.

¹³ I can undergo all things through Christ who strengthened me.

¹ James, "a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad, Greeting. ² Count it, my brethren, all joy when you fall into divers trials, ³ knowing that the trial of your faith operateth to produce patience. ⁴ Let patience then have a full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, deficient in nothing. ⁵ And if any of you wanteth wisdom, let him ask it of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it will be given him. ⁶ But let him ask with faith, without wavering, for he who wavereth is like a wave of the sea, raised by the wind and tossed about. ⁷ Let not therefore such a man think that he shall receive any thing from the Lord. ⁸ A man unsteady in his mind, is unstable in all his ways. ⁹ Let the brother who is in low circumstances glory in his exaltation; ¹⁰ and him who is rich, in his humiliation, because he shall pass away like a flower of the grass. ¹¹ For the sun riseth with its scorching heat, and withereth the blade, and the flower thereof failleth, and its beautiful appearance is gone. Just so will the rich man be blasted in his pursuits. ¹² Happy the man, who endureth a trial! because having stood the test, he will Jas 1:receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them who love him.

¹³ Let no one when tempted say, I am tempted of God. For God cannot be tempted by evil, neither doth he tempt any one. ¹⁴ But every one is tempted by his own desire, when allured and ensnared. ¹⁵ In that case desire having conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin, when grown up, produceth death. ¹⁶ Be not led astray, my beloved brethren: ¹⁷ Every good donation, and every perfect gift, is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights, with whom there is no change, nor shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will he hath impregnated us with a word of truth, that we may be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

¹⁹ Therefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: ²⁰ for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. ²¹ Therefore having thrown off all the filth and scum of wickedness, receive with meekness the implanted word which is able to save your souls; ²² and be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man viewing his natural face in a glass. ²⁴ For having viewed himself, and gone away, he instantly forgot what manner of person he was. ²⁵ But whosoever hath looked carefully into the perfect law of this liberty, and continued therein; he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of work, shall by his doing be happy. ²⁶ If any one among you thinketh to be religious without bridling his tongue, he is but deceiving his heart. Such a one's religion is vain. ²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and father is this, to take the oversight and care of orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep one's self unspotted from the world.

¹⁶ All scripture, given by divine inspiration, is indeed profitable for doctrine, for conviction, for reformation, for instruction in righteousness,

¹⁶ For this cause we do not faint: nay though this outer man of ours is wasted, yet the inner is renewed day by day. ¹⁷ For this momentary and light affliction of ours is working out for us an eternal weight of glory, great beyond expression, ¹⁸ while we are aiming not at things seen, but at things unseen; for the things seen are temporary, but the things unseen are eternal.

³ As his divine power hath freely granted those things conducive to life and godliness, and all are ours by our acknowledging him who hath called us by glory and virtue, ⁴ through which he hath freely made us very great and precious promises, that by them you may become partakers of a divine nature when you have fled from the corruption which is in the world by lust;

¹² teaching us in order that we, renouncing impiety and worldly lusts, may live soberly and righteously and piously in this present world,

¹⁹ behold I give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and upon all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall in anywise hurt you. ²⁰ Nevertheless, rejoice not at this, that spirits are subject to you; but rather rejoice that your names are enrolled in heaven.

⁴ You, children, are of God, and have overcome them, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

⁸ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit is come upon you; and you shall be witnesses for me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and to the remotest part of the earth.

⁶ Act manfully, and be strong; fear not, nor be faint hearted, nor terrified at them; for the Lord thy God, who goeth before you, is with you; is among you. May he never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

⁹ Whereupon he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee; for my strength is perfected in weakness. Therefore I will with the greatest pleasure, rather boast of my weaknesses, that the power of the Christ may shelter me.