Adjective asthenēs (weak) in the New Testament

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

25: 43I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, weak (asthenēs) and in prison and you did not visit me.'
25: 44Then they also will answer, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or weak (asthenēs) or in prison, and did not take care of you?'
26: 41Stay awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak (asthenēs)."

Mark

14: 38Keep awake and pray that you may not come into the time of trial; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak (asthenēs)."

Luke

9: 2and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to cure [the weak (asthenēs)].
10: 9treat the weak (asthenēs) in it who are there, and say to them, 'The kingdom of God has come near to you.'

John

5: 7The weak (asthenēs) man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me."
11: 1Now a certain man was weak (asthenēs), Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
11: 3So the sisters sent a message to Jesus, "Lord, he whom you love is weak (asthenēs)."
11: 6after having heard that Lazarus was weak (asthenēs), he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.

Acts

4: 9if we are questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was weak (asthenēs) and are asked how this man has been healed,
5: 15so that they even carried out the weak (asthenēs) into the streets, and laid them on cots and mats, in order that Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he came by.
5: 16A great number of people would also gather from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the weak (asthenēs) and those tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all cured.

1 Thessalonians

5: 14And we urge you, beloved, to admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak (asthenēs), be patient with all of them.

1 Corinthians

1: 25For God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and what is weak (asthenēs) in God is stronger than human strength.
1: 27But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak (asthenēs) in the world to shame the strong;
4: 10We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak (asthenēs), but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
8: 7It is not everyone, however, who has this knowledge. Since some have become so accustomed to idols until now, they still think of the food they eat as food offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak (asthenēs), is defiled.
8: 9But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak (asthenēs).
8: 10For if others see you, who possess knowledge, eating in the temple of an idol, might they not, since their conscience is weak (asthenēs), be encouraged to the point of eating food sacrificed to idols?
8: 11So by your knowledge those weak (asthenēs) believers for whom Christ died are destroyed.
9: 22To the weak (asthenēs) I became weak (asthenēs), so that I might win the weak (asthenēs). I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.
11: 30For this reason many of you are weak (asthenēs) and ill, and some have died.

2 Corinthians

10: 10For they say, "His letters are weighty and strong, but his bodily presence is weak (asthenēs), and his speech contemptible."
11: 29Who is weak (asthenēs), and I am not weak? Who is made to stumble, and I am not indignant?
13: 3since you desire proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak (asthenēs) in dealing with you, but is powerful in you.

Galatians

4: 9Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak (asthenēs) and beggarly elemental spirits? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?

Romans

5: 6For while we were still weak (asthenēs), at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
14: 2Some believe in eating anything, while the weak (asthenēs) eat only vegetables.

Hebrews

7: 18There is, on the one hand, the abrogation of an earlier commandment because it was weak (asthenēs) and ineffectual

James

5: 14Are any among you weak (asthenēs)? They should call for the elders of the church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.