14 Bible Verses about Helplessness
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And there was a woman who had had a disease for eighteen years; she was bent, and was not able to make herself straight.
For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.
The ill man said in answer, Sir, I have nobody to put me into the bath when the water is moving; and while I am on the way down some other person gets in before me.
No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.
I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.
And a certain man who from birth had had no power in his legs, was taken there every day, and put down at the door of the Temple which is named Beautiful, requesting money from those who went into the Temple;
For I am conscious that in me, that is, in my flesh, there is nothing good: I have the mind but not the power to do what is right.
Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.
Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death. Let your mouth be open, judging rightly, and give right decisions in the cause of the poor and those in need.
He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.
If I say what is in my mind, my pain becomes no less: and if I keep quiet, how much of it goes from me?
In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came before him, even into his ears.
For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
