14 Bible Verses about Helplessness

and a woman was there who had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten herself up completely.

For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

And a man lame from birth was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called "the Beautiful Gate" every day so he could beg for money from those going into the temple courts.

For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it.

Rise up, Lord! O God, strike him down! Do not forget the oppressed!

Open your mouth on behalf of those unable to speak, for the legal rights of all the dying. Open your mouth, judge in righteousness, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Is not my power to help myself nothing, and has not every resource been driven from me?

He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

"But if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I refrain from speaking -- how much of it goes away?

In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried out to my God. From his heavenly temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help.

We are all like one who is unclean, all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight. We all wither like a leaf; our sins carry us away like the wind.