failure
What does the Bible say about failure? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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9If we confess our sins, then he is faithful and just, so as to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all iniquity.
16For the just one will fall seven times, and he shall rise again. But the impious will fall into evil.
13Everything is possible in him who has strengthened me.
26My body has failed, and my heart: O God of my heart, and God my portion, into eternity.
9And he said to me: “My grace is sufficient for you. For virtue is perfected in weakness.” And so, willingly shall I glory in my weaknesses, so that the virtue of Christ may live within me. 10Because of this, I am pleased in my infirmity: in reproaches, in difficulties, in persecutions, in distresses, for the sake of Christ. For when I am weak, then I am powerful.
3And not only that, but we also find glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation exercises patience, 4and patience leads to proving, yet truly proving leads to hope, 5but hope is not unfounded, because the love of God is poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
17So if anyone is a new creature in Christ, what is old has passed away. Behold, all things have been made new.
11For I know the thoughts that I think over you, says the Lord: thoughts of peace and not of affliction, so that I may give you patience and an end.
13Whoever hides his crimes will not be guided. But whoever will have confessed and abandoned them shall overtake mercy.
23For all have sinned and all are in need of the glory of God.
14The Lord lifts up all who have fallen down, and he sets upright all who have been thrown down.
8But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,