9 Bible Verses about Unable To Save

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

There will be no work for Egypt
Which head or tail, [high] palm branch or [low] bulrush, may do.

This is what the king says, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you;

Please listen, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your lovingkindness (mercy) to me by saving my life; but I cannot escape to the mountains, because the disaster will overtake me and I will be killed.

“If the foundations [of a godly society] are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?”

“Why should You be [hesitant and inactive] like a man astounded and perplexed,
Like a mighty man unable to save?
Yet You, O Lord, are among us,
And we are called by Your name;
Do not leave us!”

Surely now they will say [in despair], “We have no [true] king,
For we do not revere the Lord;
And as for the king, what can he do for us [to rescue us]?”

And I brought him to Your disciples, and they were not able to heal him.”

“Why does this man talk that way? He is blaspheming; who can forgive sins [remove guilt, nullify sin’s penalty, and assign righteousness] except God alone?”