7 Bible Verses about Helplessness

and there was a woman there who for eighteen years had had a sickness caused by a spirit. She was bent double and could not straighten herself up at all.

For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.

The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the Last Day.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Anyone who remains united to me, with me united to him, will be very fruitful, for you cannot do anything apart from me.

when a man who had been lame from his birth was carried by. He used to be placed every day at what was known as the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, to beg from the people on their way into the Temple,

For I know that nothing good resides in me, that is, in my physical self; I can will, but I cannot do what is right.