Bible verses about "vulnerability" | Moffatt
Matthew 18:21-22
1 Corinthians 15:33
33 Make no mistake about this: 'bad company is the ruin of good character.'
2 Corinthians 4:7
7 But I possess this treasure in a frail vessel of earth, to show that the transcending power belongs to God, not to myself;
Philippians 2:5-10
5 Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus.
6 Though he was divine by nature, he did not set store upon equality with God
7 but emptied himself by taking the nature of a servant; born in human guise
8 and appearing in human form, he humbly stooped in his obedience even to die, and to die upon the cross.
9 Therefore God raised him high and conferred on him a Name above all names,
10 so that before the Name of Jesus every knee should bend in heaven, on earth, and underneath the earth,
Galatians 6:2
2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
John 13:34-35
Luke 6:27-36
27 I tell you, my hearers, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you:
28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.
29 If a man strikes you on the one cheek, offer him the other as well: if anyone takes your coat, do not deny him your shirt as well;
30 give to anyone who asks you, and do not ask your goods back from anyone who has taken them.
31 As you would like men to do to you, so do to them.
32 If you love only those who love you, what credit is that to you? Why, even sinful men love those who love them.
33 If you help only those who help you, what merit is that to you? Why, even sinful men do that.
34 If you only lend to those from whom you hope to get something, what credit is that to you? Even sinful men lend to one another, so as to get a fair return.
35 No, you must love your enemies and help them, you must lend to them without expecting any return; then you will have a rich reward, you will be sons of the Most High for he is kind even to the ungrateful and the evil.
36 Be merciful, as your Father is merciful.
James 5:16
16 So confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed; the prayers of the righteous have a powerful effect.
2 Corinthians 6:11-13
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
9 but he told me, "It is enough for you to have my grace: it is in weakness that [my] power is fully felt." So I am proud to boast of all my weakness, and thus to have the power of Christ resting on my life.
10 It makes me satisfied, for Christ's sake, with weakness, insults, trouble, persecution, and calamity; for I am strong just when I am weak.
James 1:1-27
1 James, a servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: greeting.
2 Greet it as pure joy, my brothers, when you come across any sort of trial,
3 sure that the sterling temper of your faith produces endurance;
4 only, let your endurance be a finished product, so that you may be finished and complete, with never a defect.
5 Whoever of you is defective in wisdom, let him ask God who gives to all men without question or reproach, and the gift will be his.
6 Only, let him ask in faith, with never a doubt; for the doubtful man is like surge of the sea whirled and swayed by the wind;
7 that man need not imagine he will get anything from God,
8 double-minded creature that he is, wavering at every turn.
9 Let a brother of low position exult when he is raised;
10 but let one who is rich exult in being lowered; for the rich will pass away like the flower of the grass —
11 up comes the sun with the scorching wind and withers the grass, its flower drops off, and the splendour of it is ruined: so shall the rich fade away amid their pursuits.
12 Blessed is he who endures under trial; for when he has stood the test, he will gain the crown of life which is promised to all who love Him.
13 Let no one who is tried by temptation say, 'My temptation comes from God'; God is incapable of being tempted by evil and he tempts no one.
14 Everyone is tempted as he is beguiled and allured by his own desire;
15 then Desire conceives and breeds Sin, while Sin matures and gives birth to Death.
16 Make no mistake about this, my beloved brothers:
17 all we are given is good, and all our endowments are faultless, descending from above, from the Father of the heavenly lights, who knows no change of rising and setting, who casts no shadow on the earth.
18 It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.
19 Be sure of that, my beloved brothers. Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to talk, slow to be angry —
20 for human anger does not promote divine righteousness;
21 so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.
22 Act on the Word, instead of merely listening to it and deluding yourselves.
23 For whoever listens and does nothing, is like a man who glances at his natural face in a mirror;
24 he glances at himself, goes off, and at once forgets what he was like.
25 Whereas he who gazes into the faultless law of freedom and remains in that position, proving himself to be no forgetful listener but an active agent, he will be blessed in his activity.
26 Whoever considers he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is futile.
27 Pure, unsoiled religion in the judgment of God the Father means this: to care for orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself from the stain of the world.