(for he who empowered ¹  Peter for his apostleship ²  to the circumcised ³  also empowered me for my apostleship to the Gentiles) ⁴ 

For the kingdom of God is demonstrated not in idle talk but with power.

Finally, be strengthened in the Lord and in the strength of his power.

So ¹  if ²  Satan too is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? I ask you this because ³  you claim that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron. ¹ 

Manoah’s wife ¹  gave birth to a son and named him Samson. ²  The child grew and the Lord empowered ³  him.

But King Solomon will be empowered ¹  and David’s dynasty ²  will endure permanently before the Lord.”

Deliver your people! Empower ¹  the nation that belongs to you! ²  Care for them like a shepherd and carry them in your arms ³  at all times! ⁴ 

But the Pharisees ¹  said, “By the ruler ²  of demons he casts out demons.” ³ 

And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

I am able to do all things ¹  through the one ²  who strengthens me.

The Lord’s spirit empowered ¹  Jephthah. He passed through Gilead and Manasseh and went ²  to Mizpah in Gilead. From there he approached the Ammonites. ³ 

Look, I am about to empower ¹  the Babylonians, that ruthless ²  and greedy ³  nation. They sweep across the surface ⁴  of the earth, seizing dwelling places that do not belong to them.

And if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons ¹  cast them ²  out? For this reason they will be your judges.

Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons ¹  cast them ²  out? Therefore they will be your judges.

He ¹  did not waver in unbelief about the promise of God but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God.

But just as at that time the one born by natural descent ¹  persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, ²  so it is now.

The second beast ¹  was empowered ²  to give life ³  to the image of the first beast ⁴  so that it could speak, and could cause all those who did not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

The Lord said ¹  to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, ²  see that you ³  do before Pharaoh all the wonders I have put under your control. ⁴  But I will harden ⁵  his heart ⁶  and ⁷  he will not let the people go.