100 Bible Verses About Empowerment
Bible verses about Empowerment
The Bible is a powerful source of empowerment, offering guidance and strength to navigate life's challenges. Understanding empowerment through scripture reveals that true strength comes not from ourselves, but from God. These verses highlight the divine power available to us through faith, prayer, and obedience. They demonstrate that we are equipped to overcome obstacles, live with purpose, and impact the world around us. By studying these passages, we can unlock our potential, embrace our God-given abilities, and walk confidently in the path He has laid before us. Let the words within these verses ignite your spirit and empower you to live a life filled with courage and faith.
Related Topics
Featured Verse
Numbers 11:17 (KJV)
And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
God's Power Within: Bible Verses for Empowerment
Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,
Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
For the Lord your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphnath–paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all the land of Egypt.
And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And Nebo, and Baal–meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.
And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer–sheba.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
That he may set him with princes, even with the princes of his people.
He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Behold, ye are all children of Israel; give here your advice and counsel.
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
And David came to Baal–perazim, and David smote them there, and said, The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal–perazim.
So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:
The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
For, behold, I have made thee this day a defenced city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land;
Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.
And he put upon him the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
And the Lord said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.
So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.
I will extol thee, O Lord; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
And he said unto me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my courts: for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father.
It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.
And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh:
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.
And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;
And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.
And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.
And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
And the Lord said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
And the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,
In the year of the jubile the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought, even to him to whom the possession of the land did belong.
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:
And thou shalt put upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.
And God spake all these words, saying,
Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.
And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
But I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The Lord of hosts is his name.
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.
It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.
The Lord also spake unto Joshua, saying,
To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.
And in every several city he put shields and spears, and made them exceeding strong, having Judah and Benjamin on his side.
The tapestry of empowerment woven through scripture reveals a God deeply invested in equipping humanity for purpose and impact. From the divine breath igniting creation to the Spirit’s gifts enabling service, these verses highlight that true empowerment stems not from worldly dominion but from a relationship with the Almighty. He provides strength to the weak, courage to the fearful, and wisdom to the uncertain, fostering a resilience that transcends circumstance. As we reflect on these passages, consider where you seek empowerment. Is it from external validation or the internal assurance of God's presence? Embrace these verses as a daily reminder that you are not alone in your endeavors, but are Divinely empowered to live a life of purpose, reflecting God’s love and transforming the world around you. Let faith be your catalyst and love your guide.