Below are verses from the New Testament that contain the word impossible. Included are verses that give the context of each word. Things that are declared impossible in the Scriptures include:
· Mat 17 – Impossible for man to face or deliver himself from evil. We can only be delivered from evil by faith in the power of God. …And deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom, the power and glory FOREVER, Amen.
· Mat 19, Mark 10 and Luke 18 – Impossible for man to save himself by his good works or wealth. It is the grace and power of God that saves and regenerates man
· Luke 1 – Impossible for a virgin woman to become pregnant. This is not impossible for God. He sent His Son to the earth through a virgin woman named Mary to save the human race from it’s sin.
· Acts 2 – Impossible for man to raise himself from the dead. This is not impossible for God since Jesus Christ walked out of His tomb after being dead from crucifixion.
· Heb 6 (refer also to Psalm 110) Impossible for God to lie because he has sworn an oath. God twice made a declaration or oath, first in Genesis to Abraham that He would bless and multiply him and second in Psalm 110 that Messiah Christ would be high priest and take away the sins of the world. It is confirmed in Heb 6:20 that Jesus has fulfilled the oath that God promised.
· Heb 10 – Impossible for man’s sacrifice to take away sin. Only Messiah can completely remove sin and save mankind.
· Heb 11 – Impossible to please God apart from faith. God is only pleased with you if you have faith in His Son Jesus Christ for salvation. In your Christian life, God is only pleased with you if you walk each day by faith in Him. “As you received Christ Jesus so walk in Him.” (Col 2:6). Quit trying to work for God’s approval – it’s an impossible task. Rest, trust wait, believe, hope, and the hardest – be still.
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Mat 17:15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is a lunatic and is very ill; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.
Mat 17:16 “I brought him to Your disciples, and they could not cure him.”
Mat 17:17 And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring him here to Me.”
Mat 17:18 And Jesus rebuked him, and the demon came out of him, and the boy was cured at once.
Mat 17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not drive it out?”
Mat 17:20 And He *said to them, “Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.
Mat 19:23 And Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly I say to you, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 19:24 “Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Mat 19:25 When the disciples heard this, they were very astonished and said, “Then who can be saved?”
Mat 19:26 And looking at them Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
Mar 10:23 And Jesus, looking around, *said to His disciples, “How hard it will be for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!”
Mar 10:24 The disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus *answered again and *said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
Mar 10:25 “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Mar 10:26 They were even more astonished and said to Him, “Then who can be saved?”
Mar 10:27 Looking at them, Jesus *said, “With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”
Luk 1:30 The angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; for you have found favor with God.
Luk 1:31 “And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name Him Jesus.
Luk 1:32 “He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David;
Luk 1:33 and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and His kingdom will have no end.”
Luk 1:34 Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”
Luk 1:35 The angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; and for that reason the holy Child shall be called the Son of God.
Luk 1:36 “And behold, even your relative Elizabeth has also conceived a son in her old age; and she who was called barren is now in her sixth month.
Luk 1:37 “For nothing will be impossible with God.”
Luk 18:24 And Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for those who are wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!
Luk 18:25 “For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Luk 18:26 They who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”
Luk 18:27 But He said, “The things that are impossible with people are possible with God.”
Act 2:21 ‘AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.’
Act 2:22 “Men of Israel, listen to these words: Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know–
Act 2:23 this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.
Act 2:24 “But God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.
Act 2:25 “For David says of Him, ‘I SAW THE LORD ALWAYS IN MY PRESENCE; FOR HE IS AT MY RIGHT HAND, SO THAT I WILL NOT BE SHAKEN.
Act 2:26 ‘THEREFORE MY HEART WAS GLAD AND MY TONGUE EXULTED; MOREOVER MY FLESH ALSO WILL LIVE IN HOPE;
Act 2:27 BECAUSE YOU WILL NOT ABANDON MY SOUL TO HADES, NOR ALLOW YOUR HOLY ONE TO UNDERGO DECAY.
Act 2:28 ‘YOU HAVE MADE KNOWN TO ME THE WAYS OF LIFE; YOU WILL MAKE ME FULL OF GLADNESS WITH YOUR PRESENCE.’
Heb 6:13 For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,
Heb 6:14 saying, “I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU.”
Heb 6:15 And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.
Heb 6:16 For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.
Heb 6:17 In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath,
Heb 6:18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us.
Heb 6:19 This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil,
Heb 6:20 where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek.
Heb 10:1 For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near.
Heb 10:2 Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins?
Heb 10:3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year.
Heb 10:4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME;
Heb 10:6 IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE.
Heb 10:7 “THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.’”
Heb 10:8 After saying above, “SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them” (which are offered according to the Law),
Heb 10:9 then He said, “BEHOLD, I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL.” He takes away the first in order to establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 10:11 Every priest stands daily ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins;
Heb 10:12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD,
Heb 10:13 waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET.
Heb 10:14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.
Heb 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who seek Him.
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