14 Bible Verses about Helplessness
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And behold, a woman [was there] who had a spirit {that had disabled her} [for] eighteen years, and she was bent over and not able to straighten herself up completely.
For [while] we were still helpless, yet at the proper time Christ died for the ungodly.
The one who was sick answered him, "Sir, I do not have anyone that, whenever the water is stirred up, could put me into the pool. But {while} I am coming, another goes down before me."
No one is able to come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.
"I am the vine; you [are] the branches. The one who remains in me and I in him--this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you are not able to do anything.
And a certain man was being carried who was lame {from birth}. {He} was placed every day at the gate of the temple called "Beautiful," [so that he] could ask for charitable gifts from those who were going into the temple [courts].
For I know that good does not live in me, that is, in my flesh. For the willing is present in me, but the doing [of] the good [is] not.
Rise up, O Yahweh; O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget [the] afflicted.
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all the {needy}. Open your mouth, judge righteousness, and defend [the] poor and needy.
He sits in ambush in villages; in the hiding places he kills [the] innocent. His eyes {lurk} for [the] helpless.
If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?
In my trouble I called on Yahweh, and to my God I cried for help. He heard my voice from his temple, and my cry for help came up before his presence into his ears.
And we all have become like the unclean, and all our deeds of justice like a menstrual cloth, And we all wither like leaf, and our iniquities take us away like the wind.
