14 Bible Verses about Helplessness
Most Relevant Verses
A woman was there who had a spirit that had disabled her for eighteen years. She was hunched over and completely unable to stand up straight.
For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, the Messiah died for the ungodly.
The sick man answered him, "Sir, I don't have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I'm trying to get there, someone else steps down ahead of me."
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him to life on the last day.
I am the vine, you are the branches. The one who abides in me while I abide in him produces much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were going into the Temple.
For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but I cannot carry it out.
Rise up, LORD! Raise your hand, God. Don't forget the afflicted!
Speak for those who cannot speak; seek justice for all those on the verge of destruction. Speak up, judge righteously, and defend the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
There is no help within me, is there? My resources have been driven away from me, haven't they?
"But if I speak, my pain isn't assuaged; if I refrain from speaking, what do I have to lose?"
In my distress I cried to the LORD; to my God I cried for help. From his Temple he heard my voice; my cry reached his ears.
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like a filthy rag; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind, our iniquities sweep us away.
