Bible: “able” – SG Heritage Dictionary

225 verses contain “able” (in the KJV: 194, in the BSB: 87) — showing 201–225

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And endeavour to hurt not our subjects only, but not being able to bear abundance, do take in hand to practise also against those that do them good:

Wisdom of Solomon 12:14

Neither shall king or tyrant be able to set his face against thee for any whom thou hast punished.

Wisdom of Solomon 13:9

For if they were able to know so much, that they could aim at the world; how did they not sooner find out the Lord thereof?

Wisdom of Solomon 16:20

Instead whereof thou feddest thine own people with angels’ food, and didst send them from heaven bread prepared without their labour, able to content every man’s delight, and agreeing to every taste.

Sirach 7:6

Seek not to be judge, being not able to take away iniquity; lest at any time thou fear the person of the mighty, an stumblingblock in the way of thy uprightness.

Sirach 16:20

No heart can think upon these things worthily: and who is able to conceive his ways?

Sirach 41:1

O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!

Sirach 43:28

How shall we be able to magnify him? for he is great above all his works.

Baruch 6:34

Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them, or good, they are not able to recompense it: they can neither set up a king, nor put him down.

Baruch 6:41

Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak, they bring him, and intreat Bel that he may speak, as though he were able to understand.

Baruch 6:57

Neither are those gods of wood, and laid over with silver or gold, able to escape either from thieves or robbers.

Baruch 6:58

Whose gold, and silver, and garments wherewith they are clothed, they that are strong take, and go away withal: neither are they able to help themselves.

Baruch 6:64

Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are gods, seeing, they are able neither to judge causes, nor to do good unto men.

1 Maccabees 3:17

Who, when they saw the host coming to meet them, said unto Judas, How shall we be able, being so few, to fight against so great a multitude and so strong, seeing we are ready to faint with fasting all this day?

1 Maccabees 3:30

He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.

1 Maccabees 3:53

How shall we be able to stand against them, except thou, O God, be our help?

1 Maccabees 5:40

Then Timotheus said unto the captains of his host, When Judas and his host come near the brook, if he pass over first unto us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us:

1 Maccabees 6:3

Wherefore he came and sought to take the city, and to spoil it; but he was not able, because they of the city, having had warning thereof,

1 Maccabees 6:27

Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them.

1 Maccabees 7:25

On the other side, when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company had gotten the upper hand, and knew that he was not able to abide their force, he went again to the king, and said all the worst of them that he could.

1 Maccabees 9:8

Nevertheless unto them that remained he said, Let us arise and go up against our enemies, if peradventure we may be able to fight with them.

1 Maccabees 9:9

But they dehorted him, saying, We shall never be able: let us now rather save our lives, and hereafter we will return with our brethren, and fight against them: for we are but few.

1 Maccabees 10:72

Ask and learn who I am, and the rest that take our part, and they shall tell thee that thy foot is not able to to flight in their own land.

1 Maccabees 10:73

Wherefore now thou shalt not be able to abide the horsemen and so great a power in the plain, where is neither stone nor flint, nor place to flee unto.

2 Maccabees 15:17

Thus being well comforted by the words of Judas, which were very good, and able to stir them up to valour, and to encourage the hearts of the young men, they determined not to pitch camp, but courageously to set upon them, and manfully to try the matter by conflict, because the city and the sanctuary and the temple were in danger.