John 5:7
The sick man answered, "I have nobody, sir, to put me into the pool when the water stirs, but while I am getting down someone else steps in ahead of me."
Romans 5:6
For when we were still helpless, at the decisive moment Christ died for us godless men.
1 Corinthians 9:24
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10
For I do not want you, brothers, to misunderstand the distress that I experienced in Asia, for I was so utterly and unendurably crushed, that I actually despaired of life itself.
John 5:3
In these there used to lie a great number of people who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed.