7 Bible Verses about Helplessness

And he saw before him a woman who for eighteen years had suffered from weakness owing to her having an evil spirit in her. She was bent double, and was wholly unable to raise herself.

Seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God's good time, died on behalf of the godless.

"I have no one, Sir," the afflicted man answered, "to put me into the Bath when there is a troubling of the water, and, while I am getting to it, some one else steps down before me."

"No one can come to me, unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; and I will raise him up at the Last Day.

I am the Vine, you are the branches. He that remains united to me, while I remain united to him--he bears fruit plentifully; for you can do nothing apart from me.

This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called 'the Beautiful Gate,' to beg of those who went in.

I know that there is nothing good in me-I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.