And David became greater and greater in power, because the Lord of armies was with him.
Then David overcame Hadadezer, king of Zobah, near Hamath, when he was going to make his power seen by the river Euphrates.
All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all.
Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.
But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.
Together with all his rule and his power, and the events which took place in his time, in Israel and in all the kingdoms of other lands.
And they were helped against them, so that the Hagarites, and those with them, were given into their power. For they sent up prayers to God in the fight, and he gave ear to them, because they put their faith in him.
For the word of the cross seems foolish to those who are on the way to destruction; but to us who are on the way to salvation it is the power of God.
And to another the power of working wonders; and to another the prophet's word; and to another the power of testing spirits; to another different sorts of tongues; and to another the power of making clear the sense of the tongues:
You are conscious that when you were Gentiles, in whatever way you were guided, you went after images without voice or power.
And God has put some in the church, first, Apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; then those with wonder-working powers, then those with the power of taking away disease, helpers, wise guides, users of strange tongues.
Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?
Are all able to take away disease? have all the power of tongues? are all able to give their sense?
But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit;
And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.
Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.
Go after love; still desiring to have the things which the Spirit gives, but most of all that you may have the prophet's power.
For this reason, let the man who has the power of using tongues make request that he may, at the same time, be able to give the sense.
Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.
Yes, and we are seen to be false witnesses of God; because we gave witness of God that by his power Christ came again from the dead: which is not true if there is no coming back from the dead.
Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power.
The last power to come to an end is death.
It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:
In a second, in the shutting of an eye, at the sound of the last horn: for at that sound the dead will come again, free for ever from the power of death, and we will be changed.
For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.
O death, where is your power? O death, where are your pains?
The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:
And in my preaching there were no honeyed words of wisdom, but I was dependent on the power of the Spirit to make it clear to you:
So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.
But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.
For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power.
In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you have come together with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,
I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.
And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.
The wife has not power over her body, but the husband; and in the same way the husband has not power over his body, but the wife.
It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.
But take care that this power of yours does not give cause for trouble to the feeble.
We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.
We are certain that we are of God, but all the world is in the power of the Evil One.
Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.
Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.
Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.
Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
Now the rest of the acts of Baasha, and what he did, and his power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
And he said, Give ear now to the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord seated on his seat of power, with all the army of heaven in their places round him at his right hand and at his left.
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
If they do wrong against you, (for no man is without sin,) and you are angry with them and give them up into the power of those who are fighting against them, so that they take them away as prisoners into a strange land, far off or near;
So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
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