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Power

Passages from across the Bible

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Of Christ

As the Son of God, is the power of God

John 5:17–19 But Jesus answered them, “To this very day My Father is at His work, and I too am working.” Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God. So Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I…
John 10:28–30 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand. My Father who has given them to Me is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”

As man, is from the Father

Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

Described as supreme

Ephesians 1:20–21 which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come.
1 Peter 3:22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers subject to Him.

Unlimited

Matthew 28:18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.

Over all flesh

John 17:2 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

Over all things

John 3:35 The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.
Ephesians 1:22 And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church,

Glorious

2 Thessalonians 1:9 They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

Everlasting

1 Timothy 6:16 He alone is immortal and dwells in unapproachable light. No one has ever seen Him, nor can anyone see Him. To Him be honor and eternal dominion! Amen.

Is able to subdue all things

Philippians 3:21 who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

Exemplified in creation

John 1:3 Through Him all things were made, and without Him nothing was made that has been made.
John 1:10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.
Colossians 1:16 For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Upholding all things

Colossians 1:17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Hebrews 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Salvation

Isaiah 63:1 Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
Hebrews 7:25 Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

His teaching

Matthew 7:28–29 When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were astonished at His teaching, because He taught as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.
Luke 4:32 They were astonished at His teaching, because His message had authority.

Performing miracles

Matthew 8:27 The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey Him!”
Luke 5:17 One day Jesus was teaching, and the Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. People had come from Jerusalem and from every village of Galilee and Judea, and the power of the Lord was present for Him to heal the sick.

Enabling others to work miracles

Matthew 10:1 And calling His twelve disciples to Him, Jesus gave them authority over unclean spirits, so that they could drive them out and heal every disease and sickness.
Mark 16:17–18 And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will be made well.”
Luke 10:17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in Your name.”

Forgiving sins

Matthew 9:6 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” Then He said to the paralytic, “Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”
Acts 5:31 God exalted Him to His right hand as Prince and Savior, in order to grant repentance and forgiveness of sins to Israel.

Giving spiritual life

John 5:21 For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.
John 5:25–26 Truly, truly, I tell you, the hour is coming and has now come when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live. For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

Giving eternal life

John 17:2 For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

Raising the dead

John 5:28–29 Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice and come out — those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Rising from the dead

John 2:19 Jesus answered, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again.”
John 10:18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of My own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from My Father.”

Overcoming the world

John 16:33 I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

Overcoming Satan

Colossians 2:15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
Hebrews 2:14 Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,

Destroying the works of Satan

1 John 3:8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

Ministers should make known

2 Peter 1:16 For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

Saints made willing by

Psalm 110:3 Your people shall be willing on Your day of battle. Arrayed in holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, to You belongs the dew of Your youth.

Helped by

Hebrews 2:18 Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.

Strengthened by

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.

Preserved by

2 Timothy 1:12 For this reason, even though I suffer as I do, I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day.
2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Bodies of, will be changed by

Philippians 3:21 who, by the power that enables Him to subject all things to Himself, will transform our lowly bodies to be like His glorious body.

Rests upon saints

2 Corinthians 12:9 But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Present in the assembly of saints

1 Corinthians 5:4 When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,

Will be specially manifested at his second coming

Mark 13:26 At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.
2 Peter 1:16 For we did not follow cleverly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty.

Will subdue all power

1 Corinthians 15:24 Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.

The wicked will be destroyed by

Psalm 2:9 You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
Isaiah 11:4 but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the wicked with the breath of His lips.
Isaiah 63:3 “I have trodden the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with Me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My fury; their blood spattered My garments, and all My clothes were stained.
2 Thessalonians 1:9 They will suffer the penalty of eternal destruction, separated from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His might,

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Of God

One of his attributes

Psalm 62:11 God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,

Expressed by

The voice of God

Psalm 29:3 The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders; the LORD is heard over many waters.
Psalm 29:5 The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
Psalm 68:33 to Him who rides upon the highest heavens of old; behold, His mighty voice resounds.

The finger of God

Exodus 8:19 “This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.
Psalm 8:3 When I behold Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have set in place —

The hand of God

Exodus 9:3 then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field— on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.
Exodus 9:15 For by this time I could have stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with a plague to wipe you off the earth.
Isaiah 48:13 Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.

The arm of God

Job 40:9 Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
Isaiah 52:10 The LORD has bared His holy arm in the sight of all the nations; all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

The thunder of his power

Job 26:14 Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”

Described as

Great

Psalm 79:11 May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
Nahum 1:3 The LORD is slow to anger and great in power; the LORD will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. His path is in the whirlwind and storm, and clouds are the dust beneath His feet.

Strong

Psalm 89:13 Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
Psalm 136:12 with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. His loving devotion endures forever.

Glorious

Exodus 15:6 Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
Isaiah 63:12 who sent His glorious arm to lead them by the right hand of Moses, who divided the waters before them to gain for Himself everlasting renown,

Mighty

Job 9:4 God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
Psalm 89:13 Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.

Everlasting

Isaiah 26:4 Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse.

Sovereign

Romans 9:21 Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?

Effectual

Isaiah 43:13 Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
Ephesians 3:7 I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.

Irresistable

Deuteronomy 32:39 See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Daniel 4:35 All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”

Incomparable

Exodus 15:11–12 Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You — majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders? You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them up.
Deuteronomy 3:24 “O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your greatness and power to Your servant. For what god in heaven or on earth can perform such works and mighty acts as Yours?
Job 40:9 Do you have an arm like God’s? Can you thunder with a voice like His?
Psalm 89:8 O LORD God of Hosts, who is like You? O mighty LORD, Your faithfulness surrounds You.

Unsearchable

Job 5:9 the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
Job 9:10 He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

Incomprehensible

Job 26:14 Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.

All things possible to

Matthew 19:26 Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Nothing too difficult for

Genesis 18:14 Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you — in about a year — and Sarah will have a son.”
Jeremiah 32:27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me?

Can save by many or by few

1 Samuel 14:6 Jonathan said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the outpost of these uncircumcised men. Perhaps the LORD will work on our behalf. Nothing can hinder the LORD from saving, whether by many or by few.”

Is the source of all strength

1 Chronicles 29:12 Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.
Psalm 68:35 O God, You are awesome in Your sanctuary; the God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to His people. Blessed be God!

Exemplified

In the creation

Psalm 102:25 In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Jeremiah 10:12 The LORD made the earth by His power; He established the world by His wisdom and stretched out the heavens by His understanding.

In establishing and governing all things

Psalm 65:6 You formed the mountains by Your power, having girded Yourself with might.
Psalm 66:7 He rules forever by His power; His eyes watch the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah

In the miracles of Christ

Luke 11:20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

In the resurrection of Christ

2 Corinthians 13:4 For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. For we are also weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him concerning you.
Colossians 2:12 And having been buried with Him in baptism, you were raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead.

In the resurrection of saints

1 Corinthians 6:14 By His power God raised the Lord from the dead, and He will raise us also.

In making the gospel effectual

Romans 1:16 I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Greek.
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

In delivering his people

Psalm 106:8 Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

In the destruction of the wicked

Exodus 9:16 But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My power to you, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.
Romans 9:22 What if God, intending to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the vessels of His wrath, prepared for destruction?

Saints long for exhibitions of

Psalm 63:1–2 A Psalm of David, when he was in the Wilderness of Judah. O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water. So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory.

Have confidence in

Jeremiah 20:11 But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.

Receive increase of grace by

2 Corinthians 9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

Strengthened by

Ephesians 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power.
Colossians 1:11 being strengthened with all power according to His glorious might so that you may have full endurance and patience, and joyfully

Upheld by

Psalm 37:17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Isaiah 41:10 Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.

Supported in affliction by

2 Corinthians 6:7 in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
2 Timothy 1:8 So do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, or of me, His prisoner. Instead, join me in suffering for the gospel by the power of God.

Delivered by

Nehemiah 1:10 They are Your servants and Your people. You redeemed them by Your great power and mighty hand.
Daniel 3:17 If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.

Exalted by

Job 36:22 Behold, God is exalted in His power. Who is a teacher like Him?

Kept by, unto salvation

1 Peter 1:5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

Exerted in behalf of saints

1 Chronicles 16:9 Sing to Him, sing praises to Him; tell of all His wonders.

Works in and for saints

2 Corinthians 13:4 For He was indeed crucified in weakness, yet He lives by God’s power. For we are also weak in Him, yet by God’s power we will live with Him concerning you.
Ephesians 1:19 and the surpassing greatness of His power to us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,
Ephesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,

The faith that saints rely on

1 Corinthians 2:5 so that your faith would not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

Should be acknowledged

1 Chronicles 29:11 Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in heaven and on earth belongs to You. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom, and You are exalted as head over all.
Isaiah 33:13 You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

Pleaded in prayer

Psalm 79:11 May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
Matthew 6:13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’

Feared

Jeremiah 5:22 Do you not fear Me?” declares the LORD. “Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it.
Matthew 10:28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Magnified

Psalm 21:13 Be exalted, O LORD, in Your strength; we will sing and praise Your power.

Efficiency of ministers is through

1 Corinthians 3:6–8 I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose , and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.
Galatians 2:8 For the One who was at work in Peter’s apostleship to the circumcised was also at work in my apostleship to the Gentiles.
Ephesians 3:7 I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace, given me through the working of His power.

Is a ground of trust

Isaiah 26:4 Trust in the LORD forever, because GOD the LORD is the Rock eternal.
Romans 4:21 being fully persuaded that God was able to do what He had promised.

Wicked people

Do not know

Matthew 22:29 Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

Have against them

Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”

Will be destroyed by

Luke 12:5 But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!

The heavenly host magnified

Revelation 4:11 “Worthy are You, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things; by Your will they exist and were created.”
Revelation 5:13 And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”
Revelation 11:17 saying: “We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.

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Of the Holy Spirit

Is the power of God

Matthew 12:28 But if I drive out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Luke 11:20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.