14 Bible Verses about Helplessness
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And, behold, there was a woman having a spirit of weakness eighteen years, and was bent together, and not able wholly to lift up the head.
For yet Christ, we being weak, Recording to the time died for the impious.
He being sick answered him, Lord, I have no man, that, when the water was troubled, he might cast me into the pool: and in which I am coming, another steps down before me.
None can come to me, except the Father having sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
I am the vine, ye the branches: he remaining in me, and I in him, he bears much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
And a certain man, being lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they set in the day at the door of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those going into the temple;
For I know that in me dwells no good, (that is, in my flesh:) for to will lies near me; but to work good I find not.
Arise, O Jehovah; O God, lift up thine hand: thou wilt not forget the poor.
Open thy mouth for the dumb, for the judgment of all the sons of the surviving. Open thy mouth; judge justly, and contend for the poor and needy.
Sitting in ambush of the enclosures: in hiding-places he will slay the innocent: his eyes will be hid to the afflicted.
If I shall speak, my pain will not be held back, and shall I cease, what will go from me?
In my straits I will call upon Jehovah, and to my God will I cry: he will hear my voice from his temple, and my cry will come before him into his ears.
And we were all as the unclean, and all our justice as the garment of monthly courses; and we shall all fail away as the leaf; and our iniquities as the wind will take us away.